Discussion People's reaction to suicide news

[fkyou]

Why do people make something miserable out of life. Isn't the ability to die on your own terms while you still have good memories and some happiness left in you a good thing?. Why do they insist we go all the way past what we want to?as if they themselves are living for eternity (all it is is just few decades and they are out!!)i guess they make something big out it because it effects Them.its selfish afterall.it was never about you but them . :"no matter how bad your life is ending your life isn't good because that bothers us!"
I don't really care about these people opinions but the way they treat this matter (suicide) as if it's this groundbreaking weird reality that could happen is weird.you creat life, therefore death, that's what life is.yet they act shocked when they hear of suicide. They literally create whole lives with big responsibilities like good education.money..a full time job, poverty. They shame one another over these things and build their whole personalities/life around them.but suicide is shocking to them?

 

[TheHolySword]

losing someone you love is painful and heartbreaking. i know personally i don't want my friends or family to die. maybe it's selfish of them to want you to keep going, but CTBing is also selfish. two sides of the same coin. neither is inherently wrong

 

[The_Hunter]

losing someone you love is painful and heartbreaking. i know personally i don't want my friends or family to die. maybe it's selfish of them to want you to keep going, but CTBing is also selfish. two sides of the same coin. neither is inherently wrong

How well said--you struck a fine balance here. Thank you for your reasoning, I appreciate.

 

[fkyou]

losing someone you love is painful and heartbreaking. i know personally i don't want my friends or family to die. maybe it's selfish of them to want you to keep going, but CTBing is also selfish. two sides of the same coin. neither is inherently wrong

Heartbreaking?haha.. these are the same people that want nothing to do with you cause you're making their life miserable too..is it your first time to hear that when people fail in life -because of mental illness - their parents and family blames/shames them and treats them badly..what world do you live in?
+saying both are selfish doesn't make sense make an argument

 

[TheHolySword]

No idea what you're talking about honestly so I'm just gonna stick with what I said

 

[human909]

I know right? People only really care about that person when they do commit suicide, before they just act like we all stupid or something.

 

[murkylake]

Heartbreaking?haha.. these are the same people that want nothing to do with you cause you're making their life miserable too..is it your first time to hear that when people fail in life -because of mental illness - their parents and family blames/shames them and treats them badly..what world do you live in?
+saying both are selfish doesn't make sense make an argument

I agree with you that suicide is not selfish. Expecting others to live even though they are suffering so that you don't have to feel grief is selfish. People look at it differently when it's physical pain. If a chronically ill person wanted to go through physician assisted euthanasia due to their suffering chances are they wouldn't be called selfish. It only becomes an issue when the pain is mental. It's just the stigma that surrounds mental illness, our pain will never be seen as unbearable or serious as physical pain

 

[NaoTheGoat]

losing someone you love is painful and heartbreaking. i know personally i don't want my friends or family to die. maybe it's selfish of them to want you to keep going, but CTBing is also selfish. two sides of the same coin. neither is inherently wrong

Selfishness is natural but i would say the one dying is inherently more justified, specially if we are comparing them against their parents (for obvious reasons)

 

[ijustwishtodie]

It's because people death as if it's the worst thing ever when that is extremely far from the truth. Death isn't a harm to the beings who are dead but unfortunately people are unable to see that due to the massive amounts of indoctrination that they received about death plus their ego of "I love life!!!!!". Like you say, when you create life, you create death. The beings who are alive right now are going to die eventually one day anyway. Therefore, the question becomes "why prolong it". And, honestly, people have failed to give an adequate answer for this.

It pisses me off so much when people make somebody else's death all about them and how it affects them. It's really difficult for me to have any sympathy towards the parents of those who have to deal with their child killing themselves as they were the ones who brought them into existence in the first place