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Old Mar 22, 2017, 03:33 AM
woe-be-gone woe-be-gone is offline
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Hi, I am someone that doesn't consider suicide to be "wrong".

I am not saying this in a depressed note. I've actually had some pretty insightful thoughts yesterday that gave me an amazing reason to live.

But I digress, I do not consider suicide wrong because we have the free will to decide if we want to keep surviving. Being human gives us that power to choose. But if someone told me they were having suicidal thoughts I would definitely ask them to reflect more on what is causing those thoughts because if it is based on any sort of trauma, it is something that can be altered with self-reflection and understanding through therapy and other methods. So even if I don't think suicide is wrong, I don't mean allow anyone who says they want to. In fact, there must be a very clear reason in our heads to want to suicide and if they are announcing it, it's a cry for help which should be given. As a living being, it is not something we would take lightly. We would have a strong reason to do it so I do say you should be allowed to...But only after you are completely proven that is rational and logical.

Yesterday, all my years of suicidal thoughts got slapped across space with just one rational, logical reason for me to survive and be truly me. It took years for me to want to live...But I did still live for these 26 years just not very happily.

So I believe people who do commit suicide are not 'wrong' they just didn't find a reason to live and that's okay. It's not wrong. It's incredibly sad for us because we really want to live. But when I didn't really want to, I used to feel terribly guilty for wanting to die that it actually made my need to die worse. Lol Considering suicide wrong actually promotes a lot of suicidal thoughts when people are having Existential crises.

That's my little philosophical point of view.
Thanks for this!
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