at least leave us alone if you find us. Good God, these stories of people being "saved" disturbs me.
Imagine getting your method good to go, kicking the survival instinct's ass and finally going for it just to be "saved". Now you're brain damaged, mutilated, or whatever other massive issue. Gives me chills. I'm doing my research and this story came up of a young girl who tried hanging. She's now brain damaged. You can tell she's gone but still here. Far worse fate than death.
My worst fucking nightmare.
Someone posted a video awhile back of parents parading around their adult son who was left brain damaged from a suicide attempt..it absolutely disgusted me that they continued to drag him through life when he's not even HIM anymore, he can't speak up, can't make conversation, mouth agape in an eternal confusion, this is why we should never be pro-life, only pro-quality of life, otherwise there is no fucking point.
If that happened to a loved one of mine, I would risk my own skin to put them out of their misery mercifully, even if I hated their guts or selfishly wanted their presence to last by my side, I would find a way to do what was right.
Stories like this both break my heart and piss me off. On one hand, it's sad to see a family so desperate to save a loved one that they will go to these lengths. Grief can sometimes cause us to do insanely illogical things.
On the other hand, it is a very cruel thing to let people suffer like that when in all honesty, letting them go would be much better for them. Some people, either because of physical or mental trauma are better off passing on as their lives will likely always be a Hell on Earth.
I saw a commercial once where a mother (not quite verbatim) said of her dying son:
"I'll take him any way I can get him, just save him"…to me, those words, the fact that she would take him in whatever reduced and incredibly torturous form just so she could have him, is beyond disturbing.
People so desperate to cling onto life, that they forget the whole purpose of it, if there is any to begin with..though it's certainly not to rot as a vegetable for the rest of your days so your mama can visit you in a hospital bed instead of the grave.
That is just cruelty and selfishness. That girl died when she got that brain injury and now they are just dragging her corpse around for years because they can't deal with the fact she's gone. People are so scared of death that they refuse to understand there are many things far worse than death.
They're basically erasing any last piece of dignity she had and replacing it with a prolonged period of humiliation and total loss of autonomy.
I wonder if cruelty is an understatement.
It is insane IMO. It doesn't have to be so difficult to ctb. People keep trying to find ways to avoid being interrupted or found. Even in the PPH book, the author mentioned the risk of being found several times.
Today I read a post about a woman who was trying to jump from a tower to ctb. There were at least 10 firefighters in addition to police officers. They were bragging about saving the woman! she probably got nervous and couldn't jump.
Jesus that would make me want to kill myself even more, practically making a public show of a person's attempt.
(Only attention seekers would enjoy that amount of eyes on them.)
I can't stand people who brag about being "heroes" when it comes to suicide.
I think that those attempting (and interfered with) should be allowed to sue like in that scene from The Incredibles lol
Logically I can see why someone would choose to take their own life, but in the heat of the moment I would probably want to intervene if I witnessed something happening, especially if it were a family member. I'm not surprised that a father would go to such lengths for his daughter. I agree with you though that it would be too painful to have them around as a constant reminder that they aren't really there anymore. Wanting to take care of them but also being filled with regret would be overwhelming.
That's not going great lengths for his daughter, that's going great lengths for himself.
Nothing respectable or stand-up about it, it's just vile.
Perhaps if your family member was impulsive straight off the heels of a recent event and they were right in front of you waving a gun around or something, maybe I could understand the urge to grab it.
But once they are in the act, or if they've been caught in hell for an extended period of time, it's time to step back, or in this case-make sure they're finally put out of their misery.
