04 Nov '05 03:09>2 edits
Originally posted by wibI ask this with complete respect but have you ever lost anybody close to due to suicide? I hope you haven't but, at least for me and perhaps a great deal of my feelings have to do with the age I was at when it happened, I think I wasn't important enough for this person to want to live. None of the people in this person's life mattered. The people that loved this person, and this person was loved. Yes this person was also very troubled and had issues and these issues should have been addressed. You labeled them a "victim" but what were they a victim of? Their own demise by their own hand?
I'm still not seeing it Hal. I just don't see how the selfishness label could be put on a suicide victim. They take their own life. They obviously have issues in life that have led them to this decision.
Hopelessness, despair, unending pain, terminal illness, mental illness, financial ruin, lost love, and on and on. I can't even guess at all of the re ...[text shortened]... self beyond the care of another human being as selfish. Are there other reasons for this label?
I am making an assumption that many of us have had difficult challenging situations in our lives. Some of these people who have had your circumstances or better ones or worse ones had decided "Life was too rough for me. Screw it! I'm checking out". Others decide to make the most out of it and make it better not just for themselves but for those around them.