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Re: I agree

Posted by diogenes on 2024-April-25 07:41:39, Thursday
In reply to I agree posted by kit on 2024-April-25 06:11:26, Thursday

In my case, if I didn't say anything, it's because I truly have no idea what to say. It isn't (I hope) because I've become hardhearted. It is just that I am so very attached to life, to even the little things in life -- being woken by my cat, the first cup of tea in the morning -- that anything I say to a potential suicide is likely to come across as either platitudinous or flippant. I'd be quite useless as a Samaritan.

To me, suicide is simply not an option. Suppose your life is a disaster and you can't think of a reason to live. Well, just do something crazy and radical -- abandon everything and everyone and go backpacking in the Andes. Join a band of freedom fighters. Work tirelessly for an animal rescue charity. Try to save the planet. Shout at your boss and get yourself sacked. Start a business. File for bankruptcy. Whatever. It's got to be better than putting an end to one's life. Suicide has such a disagreeable air of finality to it -- but there I go, I seem to be being flippant again, which underlines why I am unsuited to being a Samaritan.

I believe I could find meaning in my life even if I went to jail. (Not that this is very likely. I'm so hideously 'virtuous', I'm like Mother Teresa of Calcutta.) I would try to make the best of every situation. A term in prison would no doubt be very educational. And no one could stop me from thinking my own thoughts.

Only once in my life have I been indifferent as to whether I lived or died, and this was because of grief at the death of someone very close to me. Grief can be a terrible thing. But I also knew that, given time, I would recover -- because people do. Within a few days I had moved back to loving life -- whilst feeling slightly guilty that I was doing so.

I don't know Steven. I hope very much that he did not take this irrevocable step, though his message seemed rather as though he'd made up his mind. I believe that there are always other, better options to suicide. But naturally I have nothing but pity for anyone who feels that this is their only option. What more can I say?

diogenes

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