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Even with a loving community, there are those that just want to check out. Often they have trauma that is insurmountable. I am totally against suicide, but I t
by throwntoday 4y ago
Even with a loving community, there are those that just want to check out. Often they have trauma that is insurmountable.
I am totally against suicide, but I thank God I'm not in a position today where it feels like my best choice. I've been on that ledge, but what it would do to my family, and fear of divine retribution kept me here long enough to realize my problems had solutions. Religion does have its merits, namely the belief that all life is valuable, and no one is beyond saving.
- swores 4y agoAre you missing a 'not' or are you indeed "totally against [all] suicide"? The 'but' immediately after makes it seem likely. I'm glad it helped you turn around how you felt and come back from the metaphorical ledge. But can you be sure that there are more people for whom religions helped persuade them to find solutions rather than commit suicide, than people who never found release from their suffering and ensured many years more of it than they would otherwise had they not felt guilt forcing them to stay alive? I've never believed in any religion so hard for me to put myself in that mindset, but I suppose it wouldn't make much of a difference to my understanding if I did since my point is that individual anecdotes can go either way. I do at least hope that more people are helped than hurt by religious pressure to stay alive (and indeed by religion generally).
- throwntoday 4y agoNo I am totally against it. I was qualifying the statement because I couldn't speak to the mindset of someone trapped in that downward spiral. Religion has had effects in either direction, I wouldn't make any definitive claim on its overall impact. I just think it has a place.