what is the worst thing you've ever heard a pro-lifer say?

[apple2myeye!]

this question is kinda hard to answer for me, but one that's always sticked out is "suicide is the only unforgivable sin". the fact that i've heard that phrase more times than i can count on both hands is fucking disgusting. good to know that Our Loving God™® would sooner forgive a murderer or a rapist than a depressed person

 

[bed]

Off the top of my head, to me personally, it was being told my decision was stupid (never asked about my reasoning) and don't do anything dumb like that again.

 

[MindFog]

" Just don't think about it. Sometimes I get a little sad too."
- my mom who KNEW I attemped and got confined

"So you're just going to leave me? You're just doing that cos you dont want to help here"
- my mom who didn't even lift a finger when I asked for help.

"You're not sick. You're not feeling depressed anymore"
- my mom who didn't even notice I just attempted last week.

..... Am I winning?

 

[hellispink]

the typical "echale ganas" like if by putting effort I could erase my pain away. Nonsense.

 

[Murasa]

"Statistically, the friends of a person who committed suicide are more likely to do so too. Do you want to spread that horrible disease?"

Manipulative and superficial, they don't see the whole picture, I wonder if they are the same kind of people who believe exercise causes skin cancer.

 

[KQuotientW]

Telling me that my degenerative disabilities are caused by 'hanging onto your past'. Well, fk me, you mean the medically qualified doctors are wrong, all this time? Or, another one told me that I should be forgiving and loving toward the stalker I've had for the last 9 years, even though he's tried to run me over, twice, among other things, for never wanting a relationship with him. The shit that people say.

 

[PrisonBreak]

"Permanent solution to a temporary problem".

 

[lofticries]

Someone made this really cringy hypothetical situation post on tumblr. That assumes every person who decides to ctb has fam,friends, and a romantic partner.

 

[WhitePill]

"people only do it for attention"

 

[Brianiskillingme]

But you have SO MUCH to live for

 

[Greenfrog]

You don't want to die you just haven't been loved yet

 

[Euthanza]

So many words for one intention. I'd like to refute them a common phenomenon:

 

[bubo]

"you haven't died yet naturally so that means God doesn't want you dead, you shall live for God."
- my grandmother in response to me being extremely depressed due to being fucking raped.
what a nice woman! (Sarcastic)

 

[Coffeebean77]

In my Lutheran school we were taught that suicides automatically go to hell, not just that they're unforgiven. It was the only sin considered an automatic ticket to hell.

 

[nys]

I told someone I trusted abt how I felt & they got rlly mad & started screaming at me, and said "Youre just making yourself unhappy on purpose bc you dont wanna be happy & youre not trying, & since youre not happy you dont want anyone else to be happy either & thats why youre telling me this, to make me unhappy too" then she forbade me from talking abt things like that ever again bc it would make her unhappy & ruin her mood

 

[Hookah-smoking-cat]

this question is kinda hard to answer for me, but one that's always sticked out is "suicide is the only unforgivable sin". the fact that i've heard that phrase more times than i can count on both hands is fucking disgusting. good to know that Our Loving God™® would sooner forgive a murderer or a rapist than a depressed person

Hun I know the Bible inside and out . Suicide is a sin just like alot of other things. Infidelity, lying...... The ONLY sin that is unforgivable is sinning against the holy spirit. In other words talking bad against God & getting others to turn away from him. People don't get it but God understands how crushed your soul must be and how much pain you're in to want to die

 

[lionetta12]

That I don't know what real suffering is, but neither do they. That I am not trying hard enough if I'm not happy. That I have so much to live for, and that things will always get better. Always make me even more depressed than I already am to hear these things.

 

[wait.what]

Wait—pro-life people talk . . . ? Although now that you mention it, I do recall having to turn up the volume on my headphones a lot recently.

 

[FrootyBat]

My mom used to say, "If you leave me (eg. die by suicide), I'll kill myself!"

This is a woman who said she never had depression. She was just in a world of escapism and couldn't understand why the TV didn't bring me such pleasure.

 

[lachrymost]

"How can you be so sure death will be the end of your suffering?" From a family member who believes I'd go to hell. Lol.

 

[StolenLife]

My parents are both pro lifers and want to live into their 100s. Their words.
Among some of the things they said:
"You can't talk to people because you convinced yourself you can't."
"Just snap out of it and don't be sad!" 10/10 advice indeed.
"Think of how much harder it would have been if you didn't have your parents!" - True, but at least no one would pressure me about school and marks and at least I might have learned to navigate life by myself and live a little instead of being held under a neat little glass dome as a teenager with nothing going on besides school which turned out to be useless. Also they wanted me to let a certain person in my friend group at a young age which sealed my fate because they never let me decide for myself or go beyond a comfort zone.
"Think of how other people live! Think of children in Africa!" - I admit that I absolutely am priviledged compared to children in Africa and i hate that they are forced to suffer like that but that doesn't negate the fact that my own life is suffering to me. Suffering is bad no matter the amount and there's nothing noble or heroic about suffering but people don't want to admit it because it would make them question if their own life is worth it.

 

[theboy]

Life is beautiful