Suicide is way more logical than living

[thesilliestgoose]

It facilitates and bewilders me that the general consensus is that suicide is irrational and illogical. I have been suicidal to varying degrees my whole life, but have always had the core feeling of not wanting to be here and the sheer pointlessness of living. When I was a little kid, before I even knew about suicide, I longed to die in a freak accident or for god himself to take me away. I'm no longer religious but was raised in a very Christian house hold. My mom would often talk about the "end times" and the rapture. She was convinced that the rapture was right around the corner and would be any day now and I believed her completely from ages 4-7/8. I would pray multiple times a day that god would hurry up and come take me away. I truly don't know what it feels like and cannot wrap my head around the fact that most people actually want to live. I look around at all the destruction that humans have caused on this earth and continue to do with little to no regard for the earth with live on. Humans are literally the plague/ virus of the Earth that the earth continuously tries to rid itself of through natural disasters. If humans never had existed the earth would be in an astronomically better state. We are so greedy, selfish and downright cruel beings filled with hate and destruction. Everywhere I look I see people being cruel to each other, animals, earth, and really anything we can get our hands on. I know that there is a lot of good in the world too but it's way too small of an amount comparatively. I truly despise being a human. To me suicide is very logical but I see how it wouldn't be for everyone, yet I thought it would me more common and accepted if that is the route you choose to take. If someone is consistently miserable why would they continue to keep living a life of misery? And if someone you love was suicidal and consistently miserable with life, how could you dare to tell them to keep on going? That seems incredibly selfish and cruel to me. The only reason someone would have to them another to continue living is for their own personal comfort. At it's core it's because they don't want to deal with the discomfort of losing you and being alone. I could never tell someone to continue living if I knew they had consistently wanted death and hate being here.

 

[CW36]

It is societal structure that determines how happy individuals are. The smaller the country and the less commercial it is, the better the human beings. That's my experience of travelling the world. We went too far. We've become too detached and ultra competitive. No animal should live such a complex life.

 

[Cepi]

I agree with you and I often feel disgusted by people around me and my own self needs. To me, it feels like many people lack a conscience and can't see the big picture of what they're truly living for or what they're doing at the current moment. They just live life cause they're here and that's enough for everyone it seems to stay alive regardless of how much damage we do. Unfortunately or fortunately people on this site can see past all the irrationality and see what life truly is at its current moment. The world has become ugly due to laws and policies created by us and they act like they're trying to protect us when it's in their own best interest to force us to keep living for their own gain. I think suicide is rational right now in this era of the world cause it's constantly changing due to all the social constructs that have been made to adapt to a world that now has the ability to see the true ugliness that humans are capable of. As edgy as it sounds I just think we're ahead of the curve and we're suffering for it at the moment. I think eventually suicide will be a more open discussion and you won't be looked at with disgust for even mentioning but when and what'll cause that to happen I have no clue. But forums like these are definitely making the topic more tangible to the "normal people" and they're finally starting to see that for some life simply isn't worth it and they should respect people's choices as long as we don't hurt anyone along the way to true peace.

 

[FuneralCry]

I just think it's completely nonsensical to say that suicide is "irrational" when death solves all problems in which there never were a need for in the first place, all the suffering started when existence did and there are no disadvantages to not-existing, it's the absence of all torment and harm, it's true relief from this burden that we were so unnecessarily forced to endure.

I see wishing to exist in this dreadful reality as being the true irrational thing and wanting to die is what just makes logical sense to me as suicide is the prevention of suffering.
I don't get why anyone would wish to exist where they risk experiencing much worse torture at any moment just to inevitably decay from old age and die anyway, the thought of old age disturbs me, to me existing truly is just so futile and unappealing, it's inhumane being against the right to die.

 

[Captive_Mind515]

The meaning of life is death!

That is the end result of all your efforts and struggles in this life. Death is what the universe gives you in exchange for everything you give this life.

So how can suicide be illogical? It's not, you are simply cashing in your cheque early!

It's illogical to keep on living just because of societal pressure, when your life is not very satisfying of fulfilling.

It was complete random chance that any of us came into existence anyway, so why would it be some big catastrophe if some of us wish to end that existence? It's perfectly logical to end something, that was designed to end anyway.