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Originally posted by Shooter
No life might equal no pain -- for that person. Think about what pain it might cause the other people.
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That's a selfish thing of you to say.
It's all "you, you, you," isn't it? It doesn't matter if the person's life has been hard,
you don't want them to commit suicide because
you are selfish.
Same thing goes with terminally ill people. Take cancer for example. In the end stretch, the person with cancer suffers like a stuck pig. Pain gets so bad that not even painkillers can numb them. In steps a person like Dr. Kevorkian. He administers an assisted suicide to take these people out of their misery.
However, people like Shooter bitch out people like Dr. Kevorkian because they're selfish.
"It doesn't matter if my family member is suffering in a never ending blast of pain, just as long as they're alive, because I want them to be."
Know why you want them to be alive? Not for their sake. For yours. If you were thinking of someone else's sake, you'd do what is best for them, and put them out of their misery. But no, you're selfish, so even if they're overwhelmed with constant pain(physical, emotional; it doesn't matter), you want them to be alive.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your views on suicide, but I'm suggesting you try looking at it from the other side.
Pretend you're the one with the problems and the suicidal thoughts, as opposed to the friend of that person(Whom you are now). Things aren't as simple as you're trying to make them out to be.
Suicide isn't just, "Oh, I hate my life, I'm too challenged by everything, I'll hang myself." There's considerably more to it than that. Don't just jump to the conclusion that suicidals are cowards (As so many of you do). They have their reasons, just as you have your reasons for not being suicidal.