Hey guys, many of you have probably heard the following statement at some point or another, but to me it is probably one of the most asinine statements ever made and could only have been made by a "happy/normal" person:

"Suicide is the most selfish way to die/one of the most selfish acts you can perpetrate."

What a load of crap!

As a person that has struggled with deep depression and suicidal thoughts on a daily basis, the terrible feelings that one suffers that accompany suicidal thoughts are anything but driven by selfishness.

I remember when I used to be quite suicidal, it was the feeling of being in everyone's way (especially "happy/normal" people's way) that drove and promoted these suicidal thoughts.

How on earth can people say it's selfish? You wish to die so that other people are no longer burdened with your presence (I know it's irrational, but that's the thought process). The suicidal person is constantly rejected, excluded, ignored, hated on, laughed at, talked about and made to feel unwelcome everywhere. He/she truly believes that other people wish they would just disappear, they truly believe that their death would make other's lives easier and make other people happy. It may be irrational, but their actions towards this person sure as hell doesn't make it seem any different.

And, then, when the person finally makes the most difficult decision of his/her life (i.e. take their own life for the apparent benefit of others), those people have the audacity, the effrontery and the barefaced cheek to turn around and say that person did something selfish (i.e. for their own personal gain/happiness and nobody else's).

Are they freakin' kidding!?!?!?

All they ever did was show that person how much they did not want them in their lives, how much they hoped and wished that he/she would just get out of their lives. Then, when they are given the thing they seek, they call that person selfish and say "How dare he/she do this to us?"

You see, the keyword is us. Therein lies the key to the whole thing, that one little pronoun, us. If they had said "How dare he/she do this to him/herself?" that would still be fine, but no, it's "How dare he/she do this to us?"

That's the whole damn problem. Once again everything revolves around them, and not the person who committed the suicide. Nothing's changed. Before the death, it was all about them, and after the death, it's still all about them. It's all about them, them, them, and nobody else.

Just thinking about this makes me sick to the pit of my stomach, just makes me want to hurl it's so pathetic.

How damn ironic that they should call the suicide victim selfish, when they are the ones who are most selfish and self-centred.

How funny that they should call it a "selfish" act. Not a "gruesome" act, an "unfortunate" act, an "unnecessary" act, a "sad" act, a "provocative" act. No, a "selfish" act.

Seems intriguing that they should call it a selfish act. That truly speaks volumes about them. If you really think about it, it must take a really selfish, self-centred human being to call such a sad and truly unnecessary thing selfish of all things.

You must be really selfish yourself in order to see selfishness in the desperate actions of a condemned, trapped human being that had (in their mind) nowhere to go and nowhere to run, and seemingly no other choice.

It just shows once again something that I've said all along, "normal/happy" people just don't give a crap and they only think of themselves. They don't give a damn about the truth and what the real reasons are for events/actions (whether good or bad) that occur in daily life, as long as they don't have to deal with it, it doesn't matter.

This links so nicely to a previous thread of mine, where I stated how "normal/happy" people don't give a damn about anyone that's autistic (that would be me). You might as well be a psychopath or a monster/killer, they see it all as the same thing and don't give a crap about the difference.

Do they really think suicide is like a normal homicide/murder where the killer is wickedly pursuing a self-centred goal/means-to-an-end for personal gain? Good grief.