Downvote. I’ve always supported the concept of suicide, provided it’s a rational response rather than an emotional one.
There was a scientist in the early and mid 1900s whose name escapes me. And he was known for discovering cures for disease, and different elements, and such.
He came to a point where he decided that he hadn’t enjoyed living for a long time, and he saw no logical reason he would ever start enjoying life in the future. So rather than play it out until the end, hating every year of it, he decided to kill himself in his 30s.
He wrote this letter stating not to cry over his loss. Not to get emotional. He just came to the logical decision that he would rather not suffer through life for 50 years. Just end it now.
That is a STARK contrast to something like “my wife just left me, and I lost a million dollars, and my dog ran away!!!”
Because for those people, they are dealing with temporary but intense problems which over time will eventually subside.
However, if you’re in in your 30s or 40s, and you look back on your life, and you struggle with questions such as “what makes you happy?” because you’ve never been happy, then I support suicide. I think it’s selfish to force others to suffer through life, for decades, with nobody thinking what it’s like for them, simply because there’s a stigma against it perpetrated by people who only even talk to you 3-4 times a year.
I think it’s it’s selfish to expect them not to commit suicide, and suffer in silence, because it would make you sad for 3-5 minutes when you find out. Or maybe it would make you feel guilty for a few minutes that you didn’t reach out.
But after that, the feeling would pass, you’d go back to never thinking about them anymore, except this way, they won’t also be suffering on their own.
There is no “rational” reasoning that leads to the conclusion that you’ll never be happy (unless you’re in an actively harmful situation, such as a torture prison or with an extreme chronic disease).
You cannot tell whether you’ll be happy, you cannot know who you’ll be ten years in the future.
Claiming that you won’t ever be happy simply because you haven’t been happy so far is short sighted and narrow minded.
Downvote. I’ve always supported the concept of suicide, provided it’s a rational response rather than an emotional one.
There was a scientist in the early and mid 1900s whose name escapes me. And he was known for discovering cures for disease, and different elements, and such.
He came to a point where he decided that he hadn’t enjoyed living for a long time, and he saw no logical reason he would ever start enjoying life in the future. So rather than play it out until the end, hating every year of it, he decided to kill himself in his 30s.
He wrote this letter stating not to cry over his loss. Not to get emotional. He just came to the logical decision that he would rather not suffer through life for 50 years. Just end it now.
That is a STARK contrast to something like “my wife just left me, and I lost a million dollars, and my dog ran away!!!”
Because for those people, they are dealing with temporary but intense problems which over time will eventually subside.
However, if you’re in in your 30s or 40s, and you look back on your life, and you struggle with questions such as “what makes you happy?” because you’ve never been happy, then I support suicide. I think it’s selfish to force others to suffer through life, for decades, with nobody thinking what it’s like for them, simply because there’s a stigma against it perpetrated by people who only even talk to you 3-4 times a year.
I think it’s it’s selfish to expect them not to commit suicide, and suffer in silence, because it would make you sad for 3-5 minutes when you find out. Or maybe it would make you feel guilty for a few minutes that you didn’t reach out.
But after that, the feeling would pass, you’d go back to never thinking about them anymore, except this way, they won’t also be suffering on their own.
There is no “rational” reasoning that leads to the conclusion that you’ll never be happy (unless you’re in an actively harmful situation, such as a torture prison or with an extreme chronic disease).
You cannot tell whether you’ll be happy, you cannot know who you’ll be ten years in the future.
Claiming that you won’t ever be happy simply because you haven’t been happy so far is short sighted and narrow minded.
Suicide is always unreasonable.