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Originally Posted by Literature
Is that really what our only options are, here? I had an uncle commit suicide two years ago, and although I don't "accept" it, I know that in the last days, he was not the same person I had grown up knowing. He was not himself.
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I had an aunt commit suicide, an aunt who I didn't know very well. It didn't impact me much, but she left young children behind, and I saw how it impacted them, for a long, long time. She wasn't looney either, just stressed and depressed. I imagine she either had no idea how it'd impact her family, or didn't care. I admit that incident informed my opinion on seemingly senseless suicide years later, but I don't apologize for it, and I believe I'm right. It is an unbelievably selfish, destructive act, and I've got no patience for it. If you aren't utterly crazy or in pain, then people who kill themselves, especially if they leave behind a family, do not deserve to be remembered fondly, at all.
The academic research also backs up the idea that the thought of suicide is very temporary and fleeting. People who try regret their attempt, so that tells me, aside from the people in pain ready for Kevorkian, are weak-willed and or ego-driven.