Posted by DarkWind on April 15, 2001, at 1:40:27
this is a question about suicide. i'm not trying to encourage it, i'm not condoning it, i'm just wondering why it's viewed as being so wrong? perhaps being able to answer this might give some of you who are contemplating the idea an affirmation.
my reason for asking this is that i thought about a few things and i couldn't come up with answers. first off, we all die someday anyway. when we die, the people around us are going to be upset - it won't matter how we die, or when, they will still be upset. i've heard the whole idea of how suicide is offensive to various gods in various religions - but is fear a reason to live? depression sucks, it has made my life suck - i want off of this ride, i think it's broken and i don't know how to fix it.
i suppose that hope is a good reason to hang around - the hope that things will improve somehow, sometime. the nasty problem of it is that hope is one of the things i seem to have a short supply of these days. i think that honor might be the one thing that holds me here - suicide is, after all, a way of running away from problems, and i don't like running away. the problem with this is that i think my honor is severely tarnished already, just from the way i've been the past few years.
so if any of you care to offer an answer to my question, go for it - we might all learn something valuable from what you have to offer here.
poster:DarkWind
thread:5676
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