I agree, suicide awareness activists are largely useless. Constantly hearing overused, stupid cliches like "It gets better, you're not alone," etc. often just serves to alienate suicidal people even more, even encourage some. And then there's the argument that suicide prevention is pro-suffering, and that people who are tired of life and have no more will left to search for happiness should be provided an effective, painless exit, instead of forced to endure living or resort to more drastic methods.
I agree with the latter part of your comment - with certain qualifications.
To take the extremes: It seems to me there's a huge difference between an eighty-year-old person who has no living family and is terminally and painfully ill, and a fourteen-year-old who's being hammered by hormones, going to school with a bunch of sadistic little shits who have recognised an easy target and teachers who don't give a damn, and then goes home to parents who clearly would have much preferred that he had never been born at all.
The fact is that it does get better for most people. It's also the case that few people really need to be alone if they don't want to be. For those who find it impossible to form any sort of bond with others, it's possible to learn how to accept being alone in the world and to enjoy the freedom that brings.
But this is only a partial answer, because it doesn't get better for some people. Yes, I could enjoy freedom, but I will never have the freedom to fuck a hooker. As you know, I have a rubber tube up my cock. Suicide Awareness? How about awareness that you were damned by God before you were born to live in hell as a eunuch.
IIN I feel suicide awareness week is patronizing to those wanting suicide?
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I agree, suicide awareness activists are largely useless. Constantly hearing overused, stupid cliches like "It gets better, you're not alone," etc. often just serves to alienate suicidal people even more, even encourage some. And then there's the argument that suicide prevention is pro-suffering, and that people who are tired of life and have no more will left to search for happiness should be provided an effective, painless exit, instead of forced to endure living or resort to more drastic methods.
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I agree with the latter part of your comment - with certain qualifications.
To take the extremes: It seems to me there's a huge difference between an eighty-year-old person who has no living family and is terminally and painfully ill, and a fourteen-year-old who's being hammered by hormones, going to school with a bunch of sadistic little shits who have recognised an easy target and teachers who don't give a damn, and then goes home to parents who clearly would have much preferred that he had never been born at all.
The fact is that it does get better for most people. It's also the case that few people really need to be alone if they don't want to be. For those who find it impossible to form any sort of bond with others, it's possible to learn how to accept being alone in the world and to enjoy the freedom that brings.
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But this is only a partial answer, because it doesn't get better for some people. Yes, I could enjoy freedom, but I will never have the freedom to fuck a hooker. As you know, I have a rubber tube up my cock. Suicide Awareness? How about awareness that you were damned by God before you were born to live in hell as a eunuch.
I just remembered a quote from one of the posters: "Choose happy." That is one of most stupid things someone could tell a person with depression.