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> His family sees it differently. His mother begs. “I want you to live no matter what.” But that ignores his pain and his dignity, Yoshi says. This is my obser
by vmception 5y ago
> His family sees it differently. His mother begs. “I want you to live no matter what.” But that ignores his pain and his dignity, Yoshi says.
This is my observation of suicide hotlines and ambiguous generic anti-suicide advice.
It seems this conversation is so immature, patronizing and invalidating.
I haven’t found people able to articulate their thoughts on the matter as they just invalidate my comments on social media platforms until they are no longer visible.
Do things compatible with self-preservation like me, or don’t.
- mcguire 5y agoOnly something like 10% of suicides are related to chronic or terminal illnesses. One could reasonably assume that most of the rest are suffering from mental illnesses.
- vmception 5y agoWhich means what about the messaging, to you.
- oxfeed65261 5y agoDepression is a chronic, and sometimes terminal, illness.
- LandR 5y agoIt doesn't make their experience or suffering invalid. If we are to allow suicide for chronic physical pain, then why not for chronic mental pain?
- LorenPechtel 5y agoAnd how many are that aren't really counted as medical? I know one medical suicide--she never went to the doctor about what drove her to suicide. She didn't have all that long to live anyway and she perfectly well knew a broken hip meant she would never leave bed again.
- zamadatix 5y agoI'm guessing quite significantly less than 40%, probably significantly less than the 10% already accounted.