Then, after you get “saved” from suicide, they strip you of your rights and shove you in a cell for up to five days.
And that attitude is what the staff will have towards you. You are there to be punished for daring to be suicidal and trying to reject the gift of life. You’ll probably lose your job after the hospital stay, and then get stuck with thousands in bills for the “treatment” (sitting in a room watching day time tv while you listen to people in psychosis or dementia getting the shit beaten out of them by the staff.)
But this is a good thing! It’s so much better to be alive then not dead, that’s why we need to abuse suicidal people!
Nobody asks to be brought into this world. You should be allowed to determine when you’ve had enough.
Nope. It’s a bad prescient. Society would be a worse place if life had no inherent value.
What is the root cause of suicide. I say finance…
Mental illness. Not saying suicide is a mental disorder or you need an mental disorder to be suicidal. Its mostly the stigma of both mental illness and suicide.
Sometimes being trapped with your own mind can be hell
It’s not always that.
I really hate the perspective that if someone doesn’t like life, they must be crazy… because (religious reason, spiritual reason, societal obligation reason, etc).
Life can be bleak and sometimes people make a rational calculation that the pleasure isn’t worth the pain. Suicides make people still alive sad so that’s why they are socially unacceptable, but people should be able to make choices without automatically being deemed crazy.
Damn the guy must have felt terrible in that moment.
Well yeah you finally have the knowledge that this earth isn’t worth living in and finally overcame your body’s built in instinct to not die, and some assholes literally force you to stay alive by grabbing onto you like nearly every depiction of hell or hades that has ever existed including tying you to the bridge with ropes.
From a suicidal persons pov that’s exactly what I imagine that would feel like. Also the insane amount of embarrassment from a huge crowd of people that are all there because of you. Some of whom are probably “it’s all in your head” kind of people. It is hard enough to open up and show your feelings to one trusted person, let alone an effin crowd.
That said, the guy that they saved can now say “F you and see you tomorrow” so that’s something.
Oh man I’ve got a couple words for ya.
let alone an effin crowd.
A person can be smart, but people are fucking stupid.
Please don’t you ever equate yourself to what more than one person thinks.
You’ve thought about you more and your opinion is the most valuable when it comes to you. Be yourself at all times. Maybe you’ll do it enough and people will admire it. Maybe you have, just always forget about what others think, it has so much to do with you and so little to do with them.
You can’t share yourself if you’ve already molded it to be everyone else.
Edit: I really hope you don’t read this as malicious or corrective, more of just a please don’t forget about you. It’s so easy to compare yourself to others or where you think others should place you, but they can never ever have your perspective. Just be your best you, and at least one person will love that and feel proud of it. That person will be you.
Fuck you. But I’d save you anyway.
this comment section might be insane
insanely based
You have a couple of decades worth of life left to deal with. You’ve got an eternity to be dead, and it could suck worse. Plus, if you’re a Buddhist or Hindu you’re probably gonna have to go through it all again. Might as well see this ride through to the end of the line.
As a counterargument I’d like to point out that when there’s enough pain present you might just want to tap out.
Especially now since one of the lovely American corporations decided to fuck up pain medication for those that truly needs it for decades at the minimum, because they just had to get that fucking profit.
I’m not even American and I’m on about a third of what I theoretically should be. My doctors admit this, but anything more and there’s a risk of malpractice bullshit.
Hence, pain. Fuck that. I’ll tap out when enough is enough.
The major flaw in your reasoning is that you’re assuming that there’s less pain on the other side. It could be better, but it could be much much worse, especially if you’re carrying the regret of unfinished business left behind.
You might believe there’s another side but that’s not important to this situation. You’re projecting your personal beliefs on others.
Literally the entire point of my comment is “we don’t know”. Don’t put words in other people’s mouths, and understand that it’s bad form to attempt to make straw man arguments when you have nothing to contribute to the conversation.
“we don’t know” is scientific equivalency, like
On the one hand 99 scientists think global warming is real
On the other hand here’s a Maggat “scientist” in a red hat from Bob Jones university with a Ph.D in religious studies and geology who thinks everything is okay.
There’s nothing to indicate any human experience is not the result of biochemical processes and that brain death doesn’t end consciousness.
“We don’t know” = how to tell me you’re a religious cult member without telling me you’re a religious cult member
Well this thread has proven conclusively that atheists are just as closed minded as religious folk. I’ve never seen so many angry idiots argue for suicide.
I’ll spell it out one more time for you dumbfucks and then I’m blocking all your asses.
There is no scientific consensus on what happens to the consciousness after death. Period.
It could just end. It could also mean that you lay there helplessly experiencing the absolute pain of every cell dying, rotting and being consumed as it decays.
It could be that you find yourself trying to justify your sins to Anubis. It could be that you end up in Valhalla.
We simply don’t know. And that makes the risk assessment of the action of suicide (as a relief from the pain of living) volatile to the point where the possible gain in pain relief isn’t worth the loss of your life.
That’s it. That’s my entire argument. It’s not Christian, it’s not scientific. It’s fucking assessing a gambling risk. Grow up and get your collective heads out of your asses - the moral grandstanding because you "suspect’’ I might have a religious view is fucking idiotic and obnoxious - you’re no better than the Christians you think you’re preaching against.
Well this thread has proven conclusively that atheists are just as closed minded as religious folk.
This is a memes forum. You’re making some very strong assumptions about the people here. Not a single person in this thread has identified themselves with a religion. This is still you projecting your beliefs on the world instead of listening to others.
There is no scientific consensus on what happens to the consciousness after death. Period.
This is not a scientific question. This is a metaphysical question.
