Here's why I see both sides. I have had a couple of moments in my life where I got to a point where I could see the value in ending it all. I never took it any farther. I couldn't conceive of the pain it would cause for others. But it gave me a glimpse of why some people do it, and my thought was that if I magnified that feeling a few times, my caring about how others felt might be overwhelmed by a desire to just make it all stop, immediately and permanently. No more pain, at least for me. That may be selfish, but it isn't malicious.
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