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Emissary of the right to die.
- Aug 30, 2018
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Here is a good reddit post showing the reason why no one really cares about another's problem (see below quote):
Credit goes to u/zmndyeqm, and here is the link to the post.
As far as the suicide prevention efforts are concerned, I'd consider myself to be the planned one, meaning that I have meditated and contemplated this for many years (at least in the last decade) and had at times held off, coped longer, but ultimately, I know at some point in my life, CTB will occur, it is just a matter of 'when' and circumstances aligning as well as an opportune moment with a catalyst to push it.
Credit goes to u/zmndyeqm, and here is the link to the post.
I wanted to post this as a reply to another thread, but it got too long and analyze'y, so I decided to make it into a separate post. Hope that's alright.
The reality is that suicidal people have unique and fundamental problems that are not easy to solve.
Like some people have financial difficulties and unless someone is willing to pay them a ton of money in cash no amount of therapy is gonna help them.
Some people have incurable diseases whether physical or mental, like autism, which makes them eternally miserable and there's no fixing it. They just have to choose between dying and having a shit life, they're never gonna have a good life similar to healthy people.
Basically, suicides are split into impulse suicides and planned suicides. Impulse suicides are usually due to an extreme change of circumstance which the suicidal person's mind can not comprehend how to deal with at all. Whereas with planned suicides the suicidal person is completely lucid and knowingly commits suicide because of some unsolvable issue.
These are extremely different. Impulse suicides can be thwarted easily by simply talking to the individual and helping them handle their problem. Planned suicides on the other hand like I said earlier have no easy solutions and would be extremely costly for anyone to help with, which means neither friends nor the government are willing to help with those.
Since majority of suicide attempts are impulsive, and preventing an impulsive suicide is orders of magnitude cheaper than a planned one, almost all suicide prevention resources (including this subreddit) are focused on them. Basically at the cost of preventing 1 planned suicide, they prevention centers can prevent like 1000 impulse suicides.
What this all means is that if you're planning for suicide, you're basically fucked. Nobody's gonna actually say it, but in the eyes of most people who deal with suicidal people, you're a lost cause.
That's why you get empty platitudes like "It gets better". They know they're bullshitting, but what do you expect? For them to say "Here's a hundred thousand dollars to solve your financial issue" or "I'm gonna spend all my life researching autism to cure it"? If you're thinking straight and you're problem is really unsolvable, then suicide prevention can't do anything for you. You just have to choose between dying or living a shitty life.
As far as the suicide prevention efforts are concerned, I'd consider myself to be the planned one, meaning that I have meditated and contemplated this for many years (at least in the last decade) and had at times held off, coped longer, but ultimately, I know at some point in my life, CTB will occur, it is just a matter of 'when' and circumstances aligning as well as an opportune moment with a catalyst to push it.