Venting "If you want to die, then why arent you dead already hmmm??? I am very smart"

[fallingbehind]

I know Im not the only one who seethes when I see this argument pushed online.
Locals say the most redundant crap youve ever heard and act like its groundbreaking example #29929292929:
"If you really hated life, youd be dead already!! If you really hated life, you wouldnt care about the pain you wouldve died already!! Checkmate!" for an example, think the nihilst episode of Smiling Friends.

Its the stupidest shit ever, literally everybody fears pain, SI is natural. No fucking shit people are afraid of pain, one. Two, most CTB attempts fail, and people that wait are trying to avoid that and three, a lot of people fear the afterlife. Death isnt an easy thing at all, that doesnt automatically mean we secretly all love living and are just edgy attention seekers or whatever else theyre implying

 

[lost_one]

It sucks, and honestly pointless to try and argue with someone that sees things in such a shallow manner.

 

[Dejected 55]

It's exceptionally stupid when you realize this can be turned around on that person just as easily. Whatever their job is, why aren't they running the company? Why aren't they making the most money? Why isn't their relationship/marriage the bestest everest? The absurdism writes itself...

Everything is more complex than simple statements if "If XXX, then why not YYY?"

If you're so smart and know the cure to suicide, why aren't you the world's leading Psychiatrist AND actually curing everyone in the world from being sucidal, genius?

A long time ago... a friend of mine wrote in my high school yearbook a lot of things... but buried in there was a quote from him that said, "Try not to be so depressed, it does nothing but ruin a good mood." The thing was, he was being funny... being funny in an attempt to cheer me up, but he was being funny, not know-it-all fuckery. The problem is when people say that shit with no sense of irony or humor and fucking mean it somehow.

Homeless? Go get a house... Hungry? Eat a sandwich. Poor? Get some money... Unemployed? Just get a job. GENIUS! You've cured all problems with simple inane statements! Fuck those people.

 

[MissAbyss]

A psychologist once asked me this question, I replied "do you have any idea how hard it is to kill yourself?" She went silent..

Because of her absolutist thinking, she and most people with her are not able to imagine or understand that someone can have a death wish but does not act on it immediately.
Same statement as; people who commit or always in some form of confused state like psychoses etc. but it's not possible to make a rational decision about it.

Most people biggest fear is loss of one's sense of self and/or dying. It's mostly an ego-response to cope with the reality of their own mortality.

 

[fallingbehind]

A psychologist once asked me this question, I replied "do you have any idea how hard it is to kill yourself?" She went silent..

Because of her absolutist thinking, she and most people with her are not able to imagine or understand that someone can have a death wish but does not act on it immediately.

Another L for psychiatry/psychology. Im sure some find these outlets useful but theyre a complete scam to me.

 

[kopebaldy]

Why aren't you a billionaire?

Why haven't you won the Olympics?

Why haven't you cured cancers?

Why haven't you ended world hunger?

There seems to be steps to every life goal except suicide, suicide must be a switch anyone can flip at any moment ain't it?

How convenient.

 

[Pale_Rider]

When people say that they prove they don't care about you. Which that's a dammed rare thing to begin with.

 

[Forever Sleep]

It's very bizarre because, in some ways, it feels as if they are pushing for it. As in- really? So, you might acknowledge that I am struggling that much and, if I were struggling that much, it would be reasonable, even inevitable I would do it? So- you don't mind me not considering the affect it might have on you then? You'll be ok with that, then? They won't be- of course. The moment, the poor sod commits, it will go back to being a 'selfish act'. One they should never have taken. No matter how much they were suffering. They shouldn't have inflicted the pain of loss on others.

It just feels weird. Like they are almost saying for someone in so much pain, they actually should be so desperate that it overcomes everything else. Will those same people forgive those that have actually CTB then? Likely not. They'll then call it selfish or, the 'easy way out'. Apparently, after the act, they did in fact have other options and they should have thought of the devastation upon others.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

The only reason I haven't killed myself is because there are no guaranteed suicide methods. I have fear of failing and remaining alive with brain damage which is stopping me for now


They made suicide a billion times more difficult by making every guaranteed suicide method into crimes.

For example the only reason I cant hire someone to aid me with suicide or to kill me is because they made that a crime. Its guaranteed because someone else xan easily kill me and make sure im dead.

It's ridiculously easy for someone else to kill me but a gun for example. I however only get one shot while someone else can shoot me 10 times

 

[unluckysadness]

As a response to this argument, I would say : "Imagine a world where you could buy N in a supermarket, how many more deaths do you think that would cause ?"
Of course that would cause a lot more deaths. 100% reliable and peaceful. But we are stuck here and we only have shitty (and non peaceful) options

 

[roadkill111]

People seem to never understand that your brain will always try to survive and keep you alive in any situation possible.

 

[rainatthebusstop]

it's just the suicide version of this meme

 

[Cry Baby <3]

sometimes I feel like my pet rock is more inteligent than people who say that kind of shit

 

[golddustwoman]

most CTB attempts fail

this is what always keeps me from going through with it. i'm not afraid of the pain, i've attempted ctb before and it's left me with lingering pain but i can handle that. what i can't handle is the thought that i might be left a vegetable, then i'm stuck constantly feeling the pain of life with no way to end it. life is so much worse if i know i don't even have the option.