Venting So much pro life propaganda.

[SilentSadness]

Everywhere you look other than this site is overrun with massive amounts of pro life propaganda, wherever suicide is mentioned. It is especially frustrating to see "pro choice" advocates so desperately arguing for the systematic persecution of suicidal people, but also depressing to see the number of people who just hate suicidal people. It is impossible for suicide to be mentioned without either large amounts of pro life propaganda flooding the conversation or for the only conversation to be crude memes that make fun of suicidal people. Suicidal people have no voice and are hated and persecuted by everyone, and this won't change any time soon since there is no one on the side of suicidal people.

 

[ropeburns&migranes]

I completely agree, I'm so glad I found SaSu. Without meeting like-minded people here I think I would've gone insane or even more depressed with all the pro-life propaganda.

 

[MyShadow]

Here's my personal dilemma. I've struggled with suicidal ideation for most of my life and came to this forum when I got to the planning stages of killing myself. My situation, my pain and my loneliness are all still very real but I'm struggling with following through because there are still moments of magic and good people in my life.

Another struggle I have is reading the goodbye posts on this forum. Some of those people wrote to me when I was struggling and I have a terrible time knowing that I couldn't be there for them. I'm not naive. I will never be a pro-lifer, and know that I am on a platform that supports the choice of ending our own lives but knowing that people are actively ending their lives still affects me as a human.

With this being said, I fall into the category of "pro choice" because I support those who have found themselves in a terrible situation with no other ways to escape. It's just difficult to know that another person has become another number in a terrible statistic.