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Originally Posted by Só leigheas
Is it a conscious decision accompanied by a selfish agenda? Or is it actually just the sickness finally killing us?
Like, is it that we truly don't care what happens after we die to the people we love?
Is it that we care, we'll always care, but the fact remains that we're sick and hurting and feel as though there's truly no hope to ever get better?
Is it actually selfish if you really believe that the only way to get better is through death so that the people around you will heal, as well? If it is selfish, does that even matter? I mean, if you live for everyone else but yourself, you just delivering yourself to depressions hands, yet again. Maybe a little "selfishness" is justified here. Maybe we're sick and hurting and just need to stop being in so much pain.
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You say that living for everyone else is delivering you into depressions hands, but by that same logic, so is taking one's own life. To truly escape from depression, one must not consider living as doing it for everyone else, but doing it for themselves. With life there is hope. Always hope. The funny thing about hope is that it's hard to kill. Sure, it's dwindled down to the tiniest of smoldering embers for some folks, but it's still there, still burning away in some corner of their mind and soul. They just need to stop thinking about hurting so much, and start thinking about hope. Granted, that's a very hard thing to do. I completely understand, but one needs to put mind over matter and grit their teeth. It can be done.
With death, there is no hope. You can't get a do-over. Once you've died, there's no going back. It's so final and complete it's depressing. It's not a release, or an end, but the beginning of suffering for others who have been in your life. Taking one's own life IS a selfish act, and will only spread the pain and suffering further. The pain hasn't gone away, but transferred to another body. Would you so selfishly give another person pain and suffering over yourself?