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What I don't understand is society's strong aversion to the notion of suicide. Simply stating that I want to opt out of the bullshit I have to endure by being a
by Eleopteryx 12y ago
What I don't understand is society's strong aversion to the notion of suicide. Simply stating that I want to opt out of the bullshit I have to endure by being alive on this rock can get me locked up, and has in the past. Which actually just guaranteed no one would see it coming if I were ever serious about it.
Even when I am in a good mood, I just fail to see such a decision as irrational -- which is what society and modern psychiatry wants to convince me. If less drastic options have been explored and nothing seems to be working, what is so wrong with not wanting be alive anymore? How long should one hold out?
I didn't even know Robin Williams had died -- an unintentional byproduct of no longer using Facebook and Twitter which I guess has deprived me of "news". It's sad in that I wish it didn't have to be that way, but I also find it bittersweet in that his suffering has ended. I would rather he be alive, but he didn't, and he's the only one who had to live his life, so I don't feel that it's my place to regret his decision for him or suggest that he didn't make the correct decision for himself. Am I wrong for feeling this way?
- collyw 12y agoYou make a rational case for it, while for many going through suffering every day, it doesn't seem to be an option. Think of slaves, (and all the modern more subtle forms of slavery). A far as I am aware the majority still wanted / want to live despite suffering every day. I guess the idea (for most western people) is that it is a phase that will pass / things will improve.