I think often that the world would be better of if I was dead. Ive made plans a few times, been seriously suicidal way too often, and still get occasional thoughts. I would say that though I get them probably a few times a week- they dont tend to be serious until they start adding up. And a few times a week of “maybe the world would just be better off†isnt serious enough to make me “suicidalâ€.
I am probably “suicidalâ€... IDK... once a year or so. Which is way too much, but Im going to try to work on making myself as stable as possible and preventing, or at least lessening, the impact of my next depressive episode
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It: Amazon.co.uk: Hecht, Jennifer Michae: 0884166138087: Books
I'd like to recommend this book, I've been listening to it on audiobook in the car, its an affordable MP3 DVD disk.
Its interesting since she's a secular atheist and can not rely on traditional arguments against suicide and makes arguments instead which I think will work for people who can not find consolation or instruction from those sources. She makes what I think is a good argument that if you commit suicide you commit murder upon your future self. If you draw the curtain down permanently upon your self then all the things you could have done definitely will not happen. In addition to this being a violation of the future self, it also deprives the community and social connections too.
I dont know if those reasons could prove as compelling as religion could to the believer. I also know, or at least I think, that core beliefs, whether they are religious or irreligious, will not always prove compelling "in the moment" when suicide is assailing someones thinking and feeling self. That's why I mentioned safety planning earlier. Although that said, I think it can be helpful to be able to stack the deck against suicide too.
I kinda lean against euthanasia just because of mental health concerns. I'm not convinced it would be a good thing if everyone who wanted to end their life would be allowed to do it.
Abortion and birth control are out of the reach of many people, especially in less developed parts of the world. The cost can be prohibitive, but availability is an issue as well due to a combination of legal restrictions and scarcity of service.I agree too, its always bothered me that at least in the (recent) past Doctor Kavorkian (spelling) was a horrifying figure, his suicide kits the stuff of mad science and serial killer mindsets but now would not be out of place in the era of campaigning for Swiss style suicide clinics.
Like living giving medicine is unaffordable and out of reach but death dealing clinics arent, neither is abortion, sterilization, the death penalty or anything else which seems to address the hypothetical (over) population crisis.
The good thing about Stay, besides it being a secular source because non-secular sources get easily dismissed out of hand right away by most people, is that it asks questions about how and why the hell did all of that become part of the supposedly "progressive" agenda? Its just another trend that I dont think would have been out of place if the frigging nazis had actually won the war.
Abortion and birth control are out of the reach of many people, especially in less developed parts of the world. The cost can be prohibitive, but availability is an issue as well due to a combination of legal restrictions and scarcity of service.
Abortion and birth control are out of the reach of many people, especially in less developed parts of the world. The cost can be prohibitive, but availability is an issue as well due to a combination of legal restrictions and scarcity of service.