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While I can see your point, usually people considering suicide aren't looking for a way to get revenge or get back at anyone. They're suffering and can't see an
by balabaster 7y ago
While I can see your point, usually people considering suicide aren't looking for a way to get revenge or get back at anyone. They're suffering and can't see any way out. Like people who cut, or turn to drugs or alcohol to numb the pain they can't deal with, suicide ends it, once and for all.
As they say though, it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- roywiggins 7y agoOluo literally cites a study that suggests that, contra your confidence, revenge absolutely can be a factor: "A strong relational theme that the participants described explicitly was revenge. Several adolescents explained the aggressiveness of their act as a way to make other people feel guilty for their deaths and made the vindictive intent of the attempted suicide very plain" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011950/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011950/