What we're up against - The perils of being rescued by an unbidden savior

[Kali_Yuga13]

I am appalled by this comment from a reddit post I stumbled upon today. It's the story of a self-righteous sibling and an unbidden rescuer and the nightmare scenario aftermath for someone that wanted his life to end. The post is punctuated with #988 links and "don't do it, there's always help" platitudes.

Maybe just maybe this person's choice shouldn't have been interfered with. Maybe his rescue wasn't "heroic" but a new chapter of torture. The mental gymnastics people do to prolong life at any cost, no matter how torturous is astounding and the normalization and implicit agreement with such a thought process is dangerous to the freedom of society. It is a massive abuse of power and medicine to force someone to live, perform a non-consensual surgery to further prolong their life and shove them into a care home for the rest of their lives. And they pat themselves on the back...*phew* "The rest of their lives are going to be torture but at east they lived."

 

[mangoastronaut]

Wow... Reading this disgusts me. How can you write all of that and feel good about your actions? I'd be mortified by what has become. Their poor brother, I feel so bad for him. This is worse than the torture he was trying to escape from.

 

[cinnamonsticks]

How is the final message "don't do it"? It makes absolutely no sense, the op didn't even try to make sense on their story, their brother was going thru a lot but hey at least he lived. Even if there's help available he clearly cannot even take it in a proper way to make his life better, why do people think like that? This is maddening

 

[whywere]

Like I have said before, with 24/7 chronic pain, if and when. quantity is more than quality of life, then decisions will be made.

Let everyone make their own path without crappy no needed outside influence either way.

Walter

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

It's my greatest fear for some creep to imterrupt my suicide atttempt and leave me with brain damage and other damage

this is why I havent attempted yet