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It's important to view suicide not from the "I don't want to live" perspective and rather from the "I don't want to be in pain" viewpoint. I feel this article
by pedalpete 2y ago
It's important to view suicide not from the "I don't want to live" perspective and rather from the "I don't want to be in pain" viewpoint.
I feel this article does a good job of not explicitly saying this when describing what must have been an agonizing existence for David Metcalf before he took his life.
- theGnuMe 2y agoCorrect. Pain is the explanation. It's obvious when you realize that opioids relieve depression. They aren't a good long term solution though.
- jajko 2y agoSuffering as a more general term IMHO... I can imagine having no pain per se, but being so bogged down from few well placed catastrophes in life that continuing would be much harder than not.