I decided to post this in Depression because I figured most of us would relate to it well, rather than another category... It might be kind of unrelated, but I really needed to get this all out, so it might turn into a rant. Consider yourself warned. Anyway:
Doesn't it bother you when people talk about someone who committed suicide and say that they were weak or cowardly for killing themself? For instance I was talking to my guitar teacher about Kurt Cobain and my guitar teacher said he shouldn't have committed suicide. "He had everything he wanted," he said. That made me so mad. Kurt was BIPOLAR. He DID NOT have "everything he wanted." He may have been a rock star, but how does that translate to having everything he wanted? He was still human, humans have problems and emotions. I hate it when people look down on others for killing themselves. You can believe that it's wrong, but for heaven's sake, don't criticize people for killing themselves. In no way does it mean that they are weak or cowards. It only means that they we'd going through a lot more emotional pain and turmoil than "normal" people, and it became more than they could cope with, so they took the only way out that they saw. I hate how people who have never experienced this kind of pain criticize people who killed themselves because of it. They have no right; they do not understand it. I say that people who commit suicide are brave for going through what they did, because it takes more strength to pull that trigger than most people could ever imagine.
What are your thoughts on the matter?