Discussion Has anyone seen the Jubilee podcast episode on suicide?

[diazepam23]

Jubilee Podcast - Suicide Survivors

I remember reading the comments and they were pretty harsh and pro-life.

 

[Scythe]

I saw it when I was looking to see whether Jubilee had a pro-life v.s pro-euthanasia middle ground or whatever. Disregarding the comments, all the participants seem pro-life. Though I do believe they just didn't go out of their way to look for a pro-choice guy, because we are hard to come by and they problly wanted to truly randomly pick 5 people.

 

[diazepam23]

I saw it when I was looking to see whether Jubilee had a pro-life v.s pro-euthanasia middle ground or whatever. Disregarding the comments, all the participants seem pro-life. Though I do believe they just didn't go out of their way to look for a pro-choice guy, because we are hard to come by and they problly wanted to truly randomly pick 5 people.

What did the comments say?

 

[cinnadoggirl1]

just watched it. it seems pretty reasonable for a Jubilee video unfortunately. i feel like they dont go out of their way to find the extremes of issues like this. i think also its partially. people who want to die and are firm on the decision, or people who are still thinking about it. they are less likely to go out of their way and 'publicize' that opinion? i mean we have our place here because it IS the place, like shaped for us. but what happens when someone who is currently struggling goes out of their way to publicize that opinion, face and name open to the public. friends could see it, family could see it, acquaintances could see it.

i read some of the top comments and they seemed pretty sympathetic, but not really batting for the pro-euthanasia side. at least in a logical way? its just a lot of people thinking of the notion of ' getting help' = 'no suicide'. which is a lack of understanding of the nuance of suicidal ideation, depression, mental illness. some of us dont 'get better'. whether we can't or won't out of personal choice.

i kinda wish there were more people who were actively pursuing suicide or death still in the video- or at least knowledgeable about the subject of pro-euthanasia in talks about suicide and depression... i think the people in the video and some people in the comments had pretty valuable inputs on the subject to consider but everyone rolling to the 'it gets better' side makes me bitter. but i also think they do that, because they're suicidal? like in the way of 'i dont want to see anyone in pain, or anyone but me die from this'. so some of them, they stand on that end to give hope to the people who watch the video i guess? its just a theory.

 

[diazepam23]

Interesting. Some of the comments in the rest of the video seemed really harsh.