Um...cancer ravages the body, physically breaking it down until one is incapable with life, unless treatment is done. Even then, it's not a surefire cure to the illness.

Mental illness, while it feels physical, is merely a chemical imbalance that is almost always cured to treatment.

To compare cancer to mental illness is like comparing apples and oranges. Two totally different parts of one's being.

Besides, cancer kills you by destroying your physical being, whether or not you want it to. With mental illness, it's a choice, and a selfish one.

I've seen three of my family members battle cancer and win, despite being on death's doorstep. To compare that horrible disease that I've witnessed slowly and cruelly ravage the body beyond recognition at times, to a mental illness that hardly ravages the body at all? It's very insulting to my family and myself.

It's okay to pass away, not kill yourself. One is a choice, the other isn't. I value life, and living and my family too much to want to hurt them with such a temporary solution to a fixable problem.