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You may find this amazing, but not everyone shares your world view. No one wants to suffer. And no one wants to see other people suffer. But the truth is suf
by frogpelt 10y ago
You may find this amazing, but not everyone shares your world view.
No one wants to suffer. And no one wants to see other people suffer. But the truth is suffering is a part of life.
Some people I know and love have suffered their last few years of life. And other people I know and love have taken their own lives. My personal experience is that the individuals who allowed death to come on its terms, instead of rushing to that conclusion, left everyone around them with more strength, peace, happiness, and personal growth.
The people who ended their life because they didn't want to suffer anymore left a wake of suffering and trouble around them when they went.
It's unfathomable why you wouldn't see the difference.
- Retric 10y agoNot everyone suffers to the same extent or has family and close friends at the end. The goal should be a life worth living not a continuation of cellular activity. It's a failure of empathy to equate emotional pain that was going to happen anyway with the kind of pain drugs can't deal with. I really can't equate your stance to anything but sadism on a massive scale. Suffer, so I can avoid feeling bad for a little while and pretend the end is not so bad.
- staticelf 10y agoI don't find that amazing, because I knew it already. As I wrote in my original post: > People who are against letting people choose their own death is having a selfish and evil stance, there is no way to excuse that. I understand that people oppose such freedoms, but I find it to be selfish and evil. Just look what you wrote: > left everyone around them with more strength, peace, happiness, and personal growth. That is only proof of my original statement.
- frogpelt 10y agoYour stance is just as selfish and just as evil to many others.