Have you always been pro

[The.End]

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[RedPanda]

Always and I've never judged anyone that has committed suicide. It's your choice, you should have the freedom to choose when you leave this earth as well. I'm 100% pro suicide.

 

[Letmego. Please]

I'm 100% pro my suicide.
I will do my best to provide harm reduction info.
i will do my best to listen & help anyone who is distressed.
I will not help or encourage another person i do not know to kill themselves.

 

[Throwawaysoul]

Of course. I don't care what people do. It's none of my business. That goes for everything.

 

[The.End]

I started this thread early by accident and now it's too late to edit. I was going to ask "Have you always been pro-choice?".

But then I got interrupted and must've created the thread without noticing.

 

[Lovedove]

Unfortunately, no I have not. I used to be part of the pro life brigade and would agree with comments like 'its a cowardly way out' 'it's selfish on those left behind' etc. However in the last 6 months I have known a 12 year old child to hang himself due to bullying and my friend who was 25 to do the same thing, reasons why unknown.
It is definitely not selfish or cowardly and I now see it as a desperate act when every other avenue has been truly exhausted.
I have felt very low myself in the last few months at times too and I am ashamed that I used to use words like 'cowardly' and 'selfish', particularly after reading of the trials and thoughts and lives of some people on this forum.

 

[Painted Bird]

Yes, I've always been pro-choice in general and then pro-my suicide.

 

[Tazmaniac]

Pro CHOICE

 

[Morphinekiss]

No. My brother ctb when I was 12 and for a very long time I believed the only acceptable reason was if you were terminally ill. Then when I was 18 my parents told me why he killed himself, he had been molested by a soccer coach for years and never told anyone. That helped me forgive him, but didn't change my views. Then I was raped myself and I finally understood that mental pain can be just as agonizing as physical pain and that people should be allowed to choose when and how their suffering, any suffering, ends. I will do anything possible to help someone find other alternatives (I'm even crisis hotline trained) but it's their choice.

 

[Cinnabun1112]

No. Even after a my aunt committed suicide I didn't understand I just hurt for her. I grew up thinking it was wrong...then my depression hit and shit got real really fast.

 

[Boonks]

No. It was something I was incapable of understanding. I thought it was lame, cowardly, weak, selfish, nonsense. When I was religious, I thought it was possession by the devil. Then I entered Hell on Earth and became uncontrollably obsessed and helplessly consumed by suicide. Now I can't judge anyone or anything because the truth is you don't know shit until it happens to you and it can happen to any one at any minute. In the same breath, I can't judge people who do judge because I know that they don't know and they don't know that they don't know. All I can do is envy their blissful ignorance.

 

[Tazmaniac]

I think society over time has brainwashed us into believing suicide is wrong and my generation enforced The evilness by backing it up with messed up religious views.
I grew up in the Mormon religion and had god shoved down my throat for most of my life.
It's very difficult to deny what you've been taught your entire life...creates much internal conflict when you reach the point where you don't really have a choice, if their is a hell...how much worse can it be than this?
I'm ready to find out.

 

[Morphinekiss]

I think society over time has brainwashed us into believing suicide is wrong and my generation enforced The evilness by backing it up with messed up religious views.
I grew up in the Mormon religion and had god shoved down my throat for most of my life.
It's very difficult to deny what you've been taught your entire life...creates much internal conflict when you reach the point where you don't really have a choice, if their is a hell...how much worse can it be than this?
I'm ready to find out.

If staring at computers for a long time didn't give me debilitating migraines I would research the statistics of Mormon, male suicides. Over the past two years I have noticed a growing trend in the amount of suicides amongst that particular group, especially when homosexuality comes into play.

I don't know why I added this, don't want to hijack the thread, but this kinda stuff fascinates me.

 

[Conflicted Cat]

I've always been Pro-Choice. Ever since I grasped the concept of suicide.

 

[Tazmaniac]

If staring at computers for a long time didn't give me debilitating migraines I would research the statistics of Mormon, male suicides. Over the past two years I have noticed a growing trend in the amount of suicides amongst that particular group, especially when homosexuality comes into play.

I don't know why I added this, don't want to hijack the thread, but this kinda stuff fascinates me.

I left the church long ago, I am a middle aged female. My step father was very prominent in the Mormon church. I didn't experience any real trauma because of that particular cult, but when your indoctrinated at a very early age, it is a difficult thought pattern to get out of.
I got fed up with what they do to children in the name of god...might be why you see an uptick in males committing suicide. This generation of men, especially fathers, are becoming so much more involved in raising children and being present in the family unit, maybe it's guilt for not being what society defines as a responsible "man"...different definition than when I was a kid.

 

[nooo2]

Not really. I grew up having depressed friends and I could never relate to how they feel and I used to say all of the cliche bullshit I hear now. I could never see why anyone would want to kill themselves, I thought it was selfish and just really sad. Little did you know a few years later I would end up in their position but worse and I'm ACTUALLY going to CTB.

 

[ArtsyDrawer]

I was raised on the idea that suicide is a cowardly option, but that it exists, and it's God's test to weed out the weaklings.
My parents weren't vocally biblical, they were all weird about religion in general.
At the age of seven I was kidnapped into Israel by my parents, where I discovered two ideas that helped punt me into the pro choice side like an American football.
The first was judaism. Discovering Israel's disgusting Judaism-first-fuck-everything approach towards life was odd. I tried to fit in for about a week, even bought the kippa, but it was too much. That's roughly how I discovered that one does not need to be a man of God to be a man.
Ok, that makes it sound like I procrastinated my way into atheism, I swear it was a more respectful affair.
I also discovered fucking religious pedophiles. Having your dick mutilated and then sucked without anesthesia in the name of God is a lot to take in for a crisp young seven year old boy!
I'm not saying all Jews are religious pedophiles.
Religious genital mutilation is a fucked up practice.
Some fifteen odd years later I read that circumcisions help fending dick cancer off so now I'm trying to rewire myself to thank that son of a whore for saving me on dick bills... But I still wish he was alive of only so that I could strangle him with my own two hands...

I don't want to sound like I'm trying to start a pissing contest. It's just scarring. My therapist says that the more I casually drop the circumcision story in, the easier it'll be to let go.
Not too many people can honestly say they broke a rabbi's, or imam's, or a priest's nose at the age of seven, can they? Made that fucker bleed for a good day!

 

[sobad]

It is not really possible to understand the world without ever experiencing deep depression. Once I experienced it, I become a completely different person.

 

[StillWaiting]

I was brought up to believe that suicide was selfish until I become depressed and started thinking about life. Came to understand that there are things in life you just can't deal with and move on in life.