I'm tired of hearing that suicide is selfish

[Jason0941]

I'm not going to keep fighting my battle with depression just because my family would mourn me after I'm dead. I've been dealing with depression for 3 years, up to the present day. I've tried therapy and it hasn't helped. If my family thinks that therapy is so effective: they can use it to cope with my demise after I'm gone.

"Suicide would be selfish", is something that I've heard multiple times throughout my years of therapy. Has anyone ever considered that maybe forcing someone to continue living, purely for other people's emotions, is selfish?

 

[usernamesarehard]

I don't think you'll like my take, but I think life in general is just selfish. Yeah, it is selfish to ctb. You're doing it because you're in pain and don't care about the pain it will cause others. Yes, it's also selfish for your family to try to keep you alive because they don't want to feel bad. Most, if not all, people are brought into the world because of others' selfish desires to have a family.

Don't let it bother you too much. Everyone is selfish. There are very few truly selfless people in the world.

 

[davidtorez]

I don't think you'll like my take, but I think life in general is just selfish. Yeah, it is selfish to ctb. You're doing it because you're in pain and don't care about the pain it will cause others. Yes, it's also selfish for your family to try to keep you alive because they don't want to feel bad. Most, if not all, people are brought into the world because of others' selfish desires to have a family.

Don't let it bother you too much. Everyone is selfish. There are very few truly selfless people in the world.

Some would even argue and say that seemingly selfless acts such as giving to the poor is a selfish act as well. If giving to the poor does not make a person feel good about doing it, would they do it? I don't think think so.

 

[dontwakemeup]

I dislike when people say suicide is selfish, because it's not. People fail to realize that we have been suffering in silence for so long!! We have tried every medication, therapy and for some people that is not enough. I hate waking up, there are simply no pleasures in life for us. They will never understand, I stop trying. If I had nembutal I would take it so fast. And for the writer of this post, do what you feel will make you happy! This will sound bad but stop living for others selfish pleasures!

 

[FuneralCry]

It's just so cruel to me how many wish to force others to suffer tortured in this existence they never even chose in the first place, I see so much cruelty in how there is no acceptance towards the right to die with the suffering and torture of existing seen as to force and prolong no matter what, forcing people to suffer will always be what is selfish to me.

 

[eljuicioporlaestafa]

I'm not going to keep fighting my battle with depression just because my family would mourn me after I'm dead. I've been dealing with depression for 3 years, up to the present day. I've tried therapy and it hasn't helped. If my family thinks that therapy is so effective: they can use it to cope with my demise after I'm gone.

"Suicide would be selfish", is something that I've heard multiple times throughout my years of therapy. Has anyone ever considered that maybe forcing someone to continue living, purely for other people's emotions, is selfish?

I do think suicide is generally selfish, but I also don't see how that's an issue. I guess it probably has to do with the negative perception most people have of the word "selfish".

 

[NiveusAnima]

To me, suicide is selfless.

I'm not committing for myself, but for the world. For the ones around me. The ones I love and the ones I hate. The ones I will never meet.

Because I am... a burden. A waste of oxygen and time and thought. I only ever hold people back, get in their way from being happy or having things to do that don't involve me. People notice how depressed I am, and it makes them worry. People think I hate them, or that I'm angry, or that they make me feel the way I feel. Even if they do, I don't want to be the reason they feel like me.

Even the world puts energy into my life. I eat, sleep, breath, and exist on its surface when someone else could have these things. if I stop living, that energy can be used for something better. Give someone else my bed, the food I would eat, the air I would breath, the space I take.

So, I decide I want to commit. That I want to not exist and stop being a burden, that I want the world to not hate me the way it seems to, that I want to be freed from the chains of life and offer them to another who would actually enjoy their presence.

 

[eljuicioporlaestafa]

To me, suicide is selfless.

I'm not committing for myself, but for the world. For the ones around me. The ones I love and the ones I hate. The ones I will never meet.

Because I am... a burden. A waste of oxygen and time and thought. I only ever hold people back, get in their way from being happy or having things to do that don't involve me. People notice how depressed I am, and it makes them worry. People think I hate them, or that I'm angry, or that they make me feel the way I feel. Even if they do, I don't want to be the reason they feel like me.

Even the world puts energy into my life. I eat, sleep, breath, and exist on its surface when someone else could have these things. if I stop living, that energy can be used for something better. Give someone else my bed, the food I would eat, the air I would breath, the space I take.

So, I decide I want to commit. That I want to not exist and stop being a burden, that I want the world to not hate me the way it seems to, that I want to be freed from the chains of life and offer them to another who would actually enjoy their presence.

I relate hard to this man, hence I said before suicide is "generally" selfish. In cases like yours, it definitely isn't.