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On the flip side of this is David Foster Wallace's essay. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/anthony-bourdain-and-reckoning-with-depression/ https://ww

• dorchadas 8y ago
  It's really funny. I teach a class of students who would never give the time of day to thinking deeply about things ("yee-yees", as they even call themselves), but it came out that a former teacher/assistant coach at our school had committed suicide. They went into a well-thought out discussion about whether suicide was selfish or not. I think, in the end, they decided that it both was and was not selfish. It was selfish, in the regard that you're putting yourself ahead of others in terms of you being at peace while knowing others are going to hurt (and this person was found by their child-age daughters...), but they also said we can't really know it's truly selfishness because we have no clue what they're going through. We literally can't put ourselves in their shoes to see if there might have been another way out, etc. It was quite an insightful discussion, one I would've never expected from these kids.