suicide

[CookieMom108]

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Suicide is NOT a selfish act and I am sick of hearing people say it is. Imagine what people left behind feel when someone tells them how selfish their loved one was? Who gave anyone free rein to make such ASSumptions about another persons life and death? Before we open our mouths we should think of the impact our words may have. It's really right up there with telling a Mother who has lost a child that "God needed an angel." well knock it off. Pain is a lonely place and we need compassion NOT judgements.

So many of the people who say these things also claim a realationship with God well all I can say about that is , If your God causes you to say painful things to people who are suffering then stay the hell home.

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-is-not-a-selfish-act.html

Suicide is a desperate act by someone who is in intense pain and wants their pain to stop. That is a HUMAN response to extreme pain, not a selfish one. And over 90 percent of the people who die by suicide have a mental illness at the time of their death, so they are not thinking clearly.

Saying that a person who had severe clinical depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, or a similar illness was engaging in an act of selfishness when they died by suicide – even though their thought process, mood, and judgment were greatly affected by their mental illness – is not only inaccurate, but downright cruel, to both the suicide person and the suicide survivors.

And those who use the word “selfish” are merely helping perpetuate the STIGMA associated with suicide.

A suicidal action that manifests from intense, excruciating, unbearable pain associated with a serious mental illness has nothing to do with selfishness. Period.

[CookieMom108]

May. 28, 2009 at 12:21 PM

I agree 100%.

[CheshireHope]

May. 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM

very well said!

i had a family member(not going into details here). he went off to war come home and shot himself. he was a sweet kind and loving man, the only thing i could figure was something happened that haunted him for years which caused him to take his own life, when i was middle school. he used to baby sit my sibling and I. he was a trusted and well loved member of the family.