people who become pro life after suicidality?

[Ah.ow]

did anyone experience or encounter this?

I got confused to meet someone with pro life cliches who seemed expressing pro choice before - or maybe who asked questions to others that needed others to be pro choice.

I have seen people talk about encountering harmful attitudes here, that can have same effects as people who aren't pro choice. but I hadn't heard of someone going from suicidality to then fitting in with pro life?

it seemed a rare surprise for me, i got lost and wondered if i got fooled before about their seeming pro choice

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've seen interviews with people who survived pretty brutal suicide attempts- like jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge that said they regretted their decision the moment they jumped. They seemed more pro-life for themselves after that although, it was hard to judge whether they were for everyone else as well.

There was a former member here who insisted he was serious about suicide when he was young. That he even held a knife towards his chest. He was very vigorous in insisting people only needed to follow his advice to start loving life. He was very pro-life. I definitely think you get people who claim to have come out of terrible period of depression. The whole- if I can do it, so can you.

Someone who smoked once told me that the most intense and annoying anti-smokers they had come across were ex- smokers. I think a percentage of people become a lot more righteous when they have overcome a particular 'demon' themselves.

Maybe they are that vocal with the best of intentions but they tend to assume certain things. In the case of suicidality- that their situations are comparable. That this other person actually can solve all their problems so effectively. In the case of ideation and quitting a destructive habit- they surely assume that the person truly wants to quit. They may not. Even with ideation. Plenty of people don't even want to fight their suicidal ideas or feelings.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

You haven't ever heard of this before? Interesting. I hear and see this very, very often. This is just my two cents but I honestly believe that these people weren't pro choice in the first place, at least not by principle. What's important is the principle that one holds and, in my opinion, a lot of people don't really have the right principle that allows them to be pro choice. Based from what I've seen, a lot of people are suicidal in a way in where once the root cause of their suicidality is fixed, they no longer care about others and their suicidality. In other words, they basically are no different to a pro lifer in terms of their mindset, the only difference is that they are suicidal and that's it