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Originally Posted by Mylifeisdepressing
.. 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...
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Originally Posted by Mylifeisdepressing
...I feel so strongly about it, and kind of defensive I guess. And I can't exactly bring it up at lunch ...
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Originally Posted by Mylifeisdepressing
I can understand that. I agree that people should not commit suicide, God no, but I do know that sometimes people just hit rock bottom and whatever is twisting up their minds is telling them that the only way out it just to end it. Everyone makes mistakes, and for someone who kills themselves, it is just their final and fatal mistake. However, I understand what you're saying, that they need to keep going and be strong through it all. And I agree with that. Actually, it's not so much that I think it's ok for people to commit suicide, and I definitely don't support it, I just think its wrong when people who know nothing about the persons experiences criticize them for killing themselves...
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Agreed. This is something that VERY much gets me worked up. Intellectually, I know that they don't begin to understand what's wrong with these kinds of comments, but still, I can't help it. What exasperates me the very most is the ignorant assumption that someone making such a decision is working from a "normal" state of mind and that's just not at all the case(!) Unless one's mind has lived in a state of that magnitude of distortion, it would be impossible to understand how very very hard the fight can be. Most of us make it. There's nothing to be gained by criticizing those who don't.
Giving up and losing the fight are not the same thing. It's a tragedy all the way around.