Damned if you do, damned if you don't

[scary]

"Suicide is for cowards"

"You're too much of a coward to commit suicide"

Respectfully, which is it? Obviously lumping all suicide victims as cowardly is worse, but it's still awful to suggest either. This most likely has been said time and time on here again but that doesn't make it any less shitty. Suicide is not a choice, it's something people resort to when they feel that their life is unfixable. I don't think any mentally stable or physically healthy person would choose to take their own life.

Maybe its a backwards way for people to 'stop' suicides, but people will probably try to do it regardless of what you tell them. Even if you try to make it illegal people will try to CTB no matter what.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I slightly disagree in that- ultimately we do choose in life. Over lots of things when we become adults. Certainly- our choices may feel limited or heavily pushed one way or another. Anyone here now though is making the choice to read this, rather than to attempt to die. I suppose I just don't like the label of being too crazy or unhinged to be able to make rational and reasonable choices for myself.

I definitely agree though that it isn't cowardly to attempt suicide. It's terrifying on multiple levels.

I suppose personally- I feel like I might actually be too much of a coward to kill myself. I just hope I can overcome that. It's cruel to call someone a coward though for backing out. I'm sure SI can be overwhelming.

 

[FuneralCry]

Yes, it is a choice and for me non-existence is all I'd ever choose, it's all I see as positive, I'd never choose to be burdened with this torturous, dreadful existence that just causes harm and suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured just to face the agony of old age, all I want is true permanent peace from the abomination of existence that just causes harm and suffering, for me existence itself is the problem and it's one only non-existence can solve for me.

I'd always choose peace over the terrible, cruel and deeply undesirable punishment of existence, it's just so terrible to me how humans impose this existence at all and there could never be anything cowardly about wanting peace from all future unnecessary suffering there was never a need for that just leads to decay and death anyway, suicide is a human right and the fact that suicide is seen as a crime instead just shows how evil this world truly is, every second is torture being conscious and I always suffer so much from being enslaved in this existence, to be at permanent peace from the mistake of existence is all I see as positive for me.