Can suicide be a rational choice?
I am lucky, with a life that many would envy. But I am also deeply unhappy. Presumably as a result of a chemical imbalance in my brain, I simple cannot appreciate the things that keep everyone else going. I have read self help books and I have taken medication. But still I am unhappy.
I know objectively that my life is worthwhile and that I should be grateful for what I have. But subjectively I cannot feel it. Perhaps I could spend my entire life drugged up to the eyeballs on antidepessants and somehow get through, keep up the act. But […]