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I was thinking about this while walking home from school. Do you think the number of people committing suicide would change if society stopped counting how many years old people are and what date and year it is?
| It would drastically increase | 7 | |
| It would moderately increase | 5 | |
| It would slightly increase | 7 | |
| It wouldn't change | 73 | |
| It would slightly decrease | 17 | |
| It would moderately decrease | 3 | |
| It would drastically decrease | 5 |
I can not see how it would but I am interested in hearing your explanation.
I think it would decrease because people would not be as depressed about doing things for longer than they would like to and just do what they want. Idk. I'm not even sure about my thoughts. I just think it would moderately decrease and wanted to see what other people think. I realized there has never been a society like this since caveman times.
Time is just how we measure the distance between events, so it's abstract. The events, however, are NOT abstract. People would still FEEL the distance between events, even if they weren't measuring it.
I also don't think age and the date have much of an impact upon people's suicidal urges anyway. People feel despair and hopelessness for various and often multiple reasons.
i disagree.
in my opinion people are over-encouraged to just do what they want these days. So, there's a lot more drama and overreactions, when in previous times, people were more apt to consider what they *should* do and not just what they wanted to do
I'm actually starting to think it would increase because then people would not know how long they would have to do a certain thing that would make their life possibly not worth living. Idk. But i had that random thought and it made me curious of what other people think.
Wait so you mean that little kids would be able to have sex with adults? Okay yeah that works Pedophile - -. Plus even if we stop counting people still die eventually. Also suicide is not so much due to age and growing old but a variety of other situational trauma people go through.
Psychosis(Various different mental disorder)
Bullying
Break up
Loved on dying
Beloved pet dying or running away
Stress(due to taxes, supporting yourself, Job)
Stress due to not finding a job and unable to support yourself
A person who avoids reality being tossed into it(Escapism)
PTSD
Abuse in past
Low self esteem
Being stuck in a horrible situation you cant escape
Are dying already(Due to injury and sickness)
Have a sickness or handicap you cant ever fix
OP you really have no understanding of why people might kill themselves at all, much less the psychology behind it. I also dont agree with us legalizing children and adults getting together. This would really screw up dating, getting married, and getting in a relationship since people would just be able to hook up with whoever since they had no concept of how old the person was.
Before you start making stupid shit like this why dont you pick up a book or maybe you know get perspective from someone who has experienced it before. Your post shows how very ignorant you are to the matter and I can tell you if you try presenting this in front of people with these issues its going to probably piss them off how very stupid you are.
Read AbnormallyAwesome's comment. That person understands the concept of why I wrote this the best. But I can understand that a lot of the reasons for commiting suicide are irrelevant to time. I think a lot of the reason I wrote this post two and a half years ago was I was thinking about when I had schoolwork that I just didn't understand but I kept trying to do it for so long but I never really understood it well. And I was thinking about if I paid less attention to how much time I spent being putting in effort into it, how much less suicidal I would probably feel. Even if I hated everything, I'd still be too much of a wuss to commit suicide though.
AbnormallyAwesome puts into words why I wrote this poll pretty well. From looking at when the first comments were posted, I wrote this poll, like 2 and a half years ago. I think I wrote this thinking about how much of an easier time my first semester of community college was than my last year of high school. And how there were a lot of times in high school when homework would frustrate and confuse me to the point where I thought of suicide for a while. And I have thought about if I didn't pay attention to how much time I spent just being confused and trying to accomplish things but not accomplishing so much, would I think of it less? College has gotten very confusing and frustrating too. But there are parts of it I like too and even if I liked nothing about anything, I would still be too much of a wuss to kill myself, and I'm sure you'll eventually do that for me anyway. I've also gotten a new addiction after high school ended and that doesn't help me -_-
Its clear this post is out of ignorance, Since I had to study about suicide rates and most of the cases were not because of something like "Oh no I am getting old". Now we could probably associate odd behavior with mid-life crises. Which oddly seems to also trigger pedophiliea in some cases (Just something I observed) its does not seem like mid lift crises would be the main cause of suicide. As well as that Suicide is death, if you are having a mid life you are trying to be younger are realizing your own mortality you dont want to die more quickly. A lot of suicide is among teenagers. In the US at the moment people are killing themselves over not finding jobs. Since we have no jobs here.
I can't say what it would do to the overall suicide rate, but I'm pretty sure I would be dead.
yes! if we all try to make a difference. if your having sucidal thoughts or need a friend please dont be afraid to message me !!! i will and can help. stay strong xo
So if I didn't know my age or the current date, I would suddenly be satisfied with my life? Nope, not going to happen.
I think it would go down if you had a free pussy give away for ugly men.
Also, free AA batteries for ugly women.
hhhmmm... not sure. some people might freak out about not knowing the year and think that there whole life means nothing if you can't date it so then they might kill themselves.
I think society would be massively less organised and stressful if people stopped counting those things.
I most suicide is caused by mental health problems and substance addiction, and if society stopped counting the years I don't think those factors would increase or decrease by more than a tiny fraction, if at all, if we stopped counting the years.
I don't think it would help much at all. When I attempted suicide my age or what year it was didn't matter at all. I think a much larger percentage of people kill theirselves for different reasons then that.
Well this makes me think of someone in solitary confinement. With that in mind, id say it would increase.
You mean people would stop thinking about how old they already are and how they wastet their youth or how long they've been doing the crap they're doing. Yeah, maybe it would help.
I never linked midlife crisis or age related issues with suicides.
I bet there are people that stress over this so much that it adds to their general depression, but that's certainly, not the main motive for people to take their own lives.
In nature inferior animals are quickly weeded out. Suicide is only a correction to this mechanism no longer being in place because of welfare, medical insurance, social security etc. I don't mean to sound like a nazi. Suicidal people most often than not DO suffer from their inferiority.
I get what you're saying - mental illness is a weakness and as such wouldn't be desirable in purely evolutionary terms.
However, our strength and success as a species is due to our collaborative nature. Rather than abandoning those with potentially fatal weaknesses, we seek to assist so that we might better enable those individuals with problems to become functioning, happy and capable members of society.
Many great inventors, artists and scientists suffered from mental illnesses including depression - yet their contribution to society was such that their succumbing to the symptoms of their illnesses could be more detrimental to our species than that propensity to be depressed being passed down to their children. Put simply, help a wounded genius so that he might continue to express his ingenuity.
Even on a small scale, it's often better to help than to allow for survival of the fittest. For example if we can help a father deal with and overcome his suicidal urges rather than succumb to them, his children could grow up with a loving and capable paternal role-model rather than an empty armchair and the grief of having experienced a loved one taking their own life.
Really we have to remember that the reason why we dominate the world as a species is because we're so adept at working together and overcoming the adversity so many other species experience. We don't NEED only the strongest to survive because we are all so strong as a unit, together.