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RE: There Is Nothing Wrong With Suicide
I agree with you, But it's definitely a hard one for me to read today. Suicide is not selfish, And sometimes people try and try and just can't seem to win in their lives. Sometimes it's the systems we have in place. That make it hard to do dig yourself out. Other times you just might be in a horrible place. But it's messed up when people make the suicide all about them, Calling the person "selfish" for what they did. Those people who said that, Could probably be called selfish for not doing everything they could to help that person, if thats what they needed of course.
You have no right to tell someone how to live their lives.
precisely. well said.
Nobody is telling anyone how to live, and I can judge someone who behaves poorly, I can judge someone who makes such a choice especially if they are close to me and I can consider how inconsiderate they are to others or how foolish and careless they are to squander the gift of life as I would expect others do that to me were I to bring them such inconsiderate and foolish "company".
They don't have to consider you. It is their life. not yours.
Who is being selfish now?
Those who don't consider others, that's who's selfish, or do I need to hit you over the head with a dictionary opened up to selflessness?
I think though, that if you live your life to make other people happy, then you're doing yourself a great disservice. She might have considered staying alive so her friends wouldn't suffer the loss. But every day of her life was filled with pain - physical and emotional. And her physical pain not only prevented her from living a full life of experiences and interaction, there was also no end in sight. She hadn't been suffering from IC for weeks or months. It had been years.
So, she could stay alive, isolated and in pain, so that her friends and family would be okay, or trust that they know her well enough to understand her decision to finally stop this endless cycle. They might not agree with her decision, and yes, it's tragic and creates so much psychological pain for others. But she was the one living in pain, trying every single day to make things better, and constantly being knocked back down.
It was her life, no one else's. And the people who have lost her have their own issues to deal with now. Those are and were none of her responsibility. One cannot live one's life in order to please others. She made a choice. We may not like it, but tough titties. We didn't live her life.