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Originally Posted by Mylifeisdepressing
"Giving up and losing the fight are not the same thing. It's a tragedy all the way around."
I agree with that. The problem is that some people treat it more like a crime than a tragedy. Th person didn't wake up and say, "I am feeling evil today, I think I'll kill myself." No, they spent a long time, years usually, going through the pain that their condition caused them, and finally they just lost the power to fight anymore. Thanks for phrasing it that way. It really helped to explain a lot of the things I was trying to say.
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I disagree actually. Not everybody has gone through years of pain before attempting suicide. Some people can kill themselves on impulse, without even having depression. For example, take a guy who's GF dumps him out of the blue. He jumps in front of a train an hour after hearing the bad news. You get some men who kill their kids and then themselves just to get back at the wife. That's not so much about depression as it is about anger and getting revenge.
Suicide bombers don't suffer from depression. Well I assume they don't, maybe soe do. They kill for religious and/or political reasons. It's not true that everybody who commits suicide is depressed. How about someone with a terminal illness who decides to end it?
I don't think committing suicide is cowardly. I think it can be selfish under certain circumstances. If you're a parent with young children and you kill yourself, then that is selfish, there's no getting away from it.