Suicide

Sept 14, 2017 16:10:50 GMT @miccee said:

So you're saying that if someone is unhappy because they are homeless, because they have a severe illness which reduces their quality of life to nothing, or if they are in debt over their heads to the notoriously vicious local loan sharks, then all of those people are mentally ill (?)Considering the fact that one cannot be deprived of anything if one is dead, and that the pleasures in life mainly consist of relief from deprivation will lead one to the conclusion that dying peacefully is better than a life of suffering.

A) Did you actually read what wrote? Because I did say that there are some (very few, but some) circumstances in which suicide is an option, such as your: "they have a severe illness which reduces their quality of life to nothing".

But if you are homeless that is not hopeless because you can go to a shelter and potentially start the process toward getting back into society. If you're in over your head notoriously vicious local loan sharks that is also not hopeless because you might figure out a way to pay them off. There's always hope.

B) When you start considering that its a good thing that one cannot be deprived of anything if one is dead then you're starting a slippery toward thinking its ok to just commit suicide. If you're opening that door then maybe you should get help.