Discussion Recent high-profile suicide attempts got me feeling some type of way

[ArteriesBindEveryon]

If you're not on Twitter, that's probably a good thing. Unfortunately I am and over the past couple days I saw two public figures share desires or attempts at suicide. Both are white males who have done problematic things in the past. Max G of Braindump made racist drawings in his past and went public with a desire to go to Switzerland to receive physician-assisted suicide to relieve a chronic illness. The other is Perez Hilton, who was one of the earliest celebrity bloggers bloggers and from my understanding was exploitative and abusive towards female celebrities (though my knowledge on this is vague). He recently live-streamed himself on TikTok cutting his wrists and while I haven't seen the video, it's apparently very bloody, though he did survive and was taken to the hospital. A lot of the tweets I saw, especially regarding Hilton, who actively cheering on the suicide because they have a past involving the harassment of minorities. One tweet with something like 70k likes said something to the effect of "I love it when good things happen to bad men".

All this has got me wondering at what point it is generally ok to encourage suicide, which is something I've been wondering about for a while now. I've been suicidal since I was young and no one besides myself has ever encouraged me to do it. Yet as I've grown older I've never gotten any happier and have hurt more people along the way. Like the two people I mentioned earlier, I too am a white male. While I haven't done or said anything racist or abusive intentionally, I still exist as an oppressive class. This in conjunction with the above is making me think that it would be morally good for people like myself to commit suicide.

And before anyone says "I don't think anyone should kill themselves", consider that Hitler killed himself, and I think we can all agree that his death was a good thing. Obviously there is a drastic difference between Hitler and myself, but I don't think someone has to be literally Hitler to be deserving of death. I'm curious where you guys draw the line.

 

[_Gollum_]

Why are you operating on the premise that death is necessarily a harm and a punishment? I don't agree that Hitler's death was a good thing. It robbed us of justice.