
brokenspirited
Great Mage
- May 20, 2025
- 450
People romanticize struggle as if pain builds character, but all it builds is exhaustion. I'm tired of pretending there's nobility in suffering.
"When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down."
- Emil Cioran
"Sadness and depression are very different things. Sadness is something happens and you temporarily become sad. Depression is a condition where you see things for what they are."
- Drew Michael
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
- Franz Kafka
"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
- T.S. Elliot
"A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but I still loved life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most baneful inclinations: for is there anything more foolish than to wish to carry continually a burden that one can always throw down? To abhor one's existence, and yet to cling to that existence?"
- The Old Woman, in Voltaire's Candide
They say life is sacred. That every human being is a gift. That no pain can justify the decision to give up living. They say life must always be defended, at all costs. Fine. Every year, at least 720,000 people around the world take their own lives. One every 43 seconds. Are they a problem? A symptom? A defeat? No. According to what is said, they are lives that must be saved. All of them. No exceptions. Not with words. Not with intentions. With action. So here is the proposal: one million euros for every person expressing suicidal ideation. Not as charity. Not to buy their choice. But to offer the possibility they lack. If life truly is what they claim it to be the highest, most sacred, most untouchable good then no price is too high. Seventy-two billion for seventy-two thousand suicides? Seven hundred twenty billion for seven hundred twenty thousand? Yes. Pay it. Divide it among the global population, and the cost comes to about 88 euros per person. A laughable amount, compared to the values being proclaimed. No Church will refuse. No pro-life movement or ethical government will step back. In fact, they'll be the first to fund this universal gesture. They'll be proud to do it. Because if life is truly a gift, who could oppose protecting it with the most tangible gift that exists: resources. This is the moment. No one will dare say no. And if someone does, it means that what they've always said was never true.
Life isn't a gift, its a sentence.
If it were a gift, then I'd be free to refuse it. Life is forced upon us, we are the result of someone else's actions and will be subject to reward or punishment.
Every sunrise feels like a cruel joke, heralding another day of pain and disappointment. Death offers a final, peaceful sunset.