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What's so wrong with suicide?

Asked by mustve_misplaced_lifes_map (76points) November 10th, 2010

To start: I’M NOT SUICIDAL so don’t freak out or get all preachy on me.
I did consider it at one point, but was too chicken to go through with it

So many people have so much negativity to say about suicide, how the person was selfish, ignorant, taking the easy way out, weak.

But I’m still here because I was too weak to do it, and the act of dying itself seemed so hard. I took the easy way out by living and am now skating through life not really here, but still here. Is that really better?

Is it really always better to be living? If we don’t have the right to tell people how to live their lives, why do we get to tell them when to?

We don’t have any say in our births… so shouldn’t we get say in our own deaths?—-But I guess since your conception wasn’t really about you, it was able the two concieving you, why should your exit from the world be any different?—-

I don’t know… I guess what I’m saying is it feels like suicide is ‘wrong’ because it would hurt everyone around the would-be-deceased, and that take on it seems wrong. That rather it might be right for that person, and isn’t really about the others.

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