Looking for media of a positive perspective of ctb

[skylar160]

Most media regards ctb as something that's bad and horrific. But are there any books, movies, TV shows, poetry, etc. that gives a different perspective on it?

 

[parasite_eve]

One of my favorites I memorized in school:

“The Suicide’s Soliloquy” by Abraham Lincoln – Shenandoah

The following lines were said to have been found near the bones of a man supposed to have committed suicide, in a deep forest, on the Flat Branch of the Sangamon, sometime ago.


Here where the lonely hooting owl
Sends forth his midnight moans,
Fierce wolves shall o'er my carcase growl
Or buzzards pick my bones.

No fellow-man shall learn my fate,
Or where my ashes lie;
Unless by beasts drawn round their bait,
Or by the ravens' cry.

Yes! I've resolved the deed to do,
And this the place to do it:
This heart I'll rush a dagger through,
Though I in hell should rue it!

Hell! What is hell to one like me
Who pleasures never knew;
By friends consigned to misery
By hope deserted too?

To ease me of this power to think,
That through my bosom raves,
I'll headlong leap from hell's high brink,
And wallow in its waves.

Though devils yell, and burning chains
May waken long regret;
Their frightful screams, and piercing pains,
Will help me to forget.

Yes! I'm prepared, through endless night,
To take that fiery berth!
Think not with tales of hell to fright
Me, who am damn'd on earth!

Sweet steel! come forth from out your sheath,
And glist'ning, speak your powers;
Rip up the organs of my breath,
And draw my blood in showers!

I strike! It quivers in that heart
Which drives me to this end;
I draw and kiss the bloody dart,
My last—my only friend!

 

[yowai]

Maybe not directly suicide but there's one episode in black mirror where two terminally ill women decide to have euthanasia to be able to live together in an "other world" and it's depicted as romantic and a happy ending lol

 

[SomethingOriginal]

Most media regards ctb as something that's bad and horrific. But are there any books, movies, TV shows, poetry, etc. that gives a different perspective on it?

Generally, it is seen as avoidable and a symptom of negative thought patterns. I have seen a lot of cases where people generally take the view that it wasn't necessary, they could have resolved that. When someone is in that situation, it FEELS unresolvable. It doesn't mean it is. I'm not an expert, but I think cognitive behavioural therapy calls this 'cognitive distortions' like all or nothing thinking or catastrophising (eg if someone lost a job they might think 'ill never find a job and I'll lose everything). In all probability, they will find another job and probably more quickly.

 

[maniac116]

" The suicide traveler" on PBS is a very good documentary on assisted suicide.

 

[Christian5483]

Maybe not directly suicide but there's one episode in black mirror where two terminally ill women decide to have euthanasia to be able to live together in an "other world" and it's depicted as romantic and a happy ending lol

Do you remember which season?

 

[APeacefulPlace]

Do you remember which season?

If you haven't found it yet already, should be Season 3, Ep. 4

 

[Christian5483]

If you haven't found it yet already, should be Season 3, Ep. 4

Thank you!

 

[Christian5483]

Maybe not directly suicide but there's one episode in black mirror where two terminally ill women decide to have euthanasia to be able to live together in an "other world" and it's depicted as romantic and a happy ending lol

Wow! Just wow!
It would be so wonderful if the idea for the episode became a reality