why do people save others?

[cyanidekitty]

i still don't entirely understand why people constantly choose to intervene with others decision to commit.

maybe if there were better painless & legal options then people wouldnt have to traumatize others in public.

i understand the fact that obviously most people wouldnt want their family member/partner/friend to be dead but i feel like people don't actually look at others situations. life isn't for everyone & it sure as hell doesnt get better for everyone

i dont think anyone should be forced to live

 

[doomedbynarrative]

Ultimately, I think the one thing in this world that people are scared of as much as death is loss. Loss of anything. Loss of people, money, power, stability, etc etc.

People try to save life because they don't want to experience loss.

 

[ireallywasnttogopls]

they just don't understand the nature of suicide

 

[NameOfAction]

I thinks it's the innate fear of death. We try and prevent death as much as possible with little regard for reason and logic. Think, keeping the frail and elderly on life support or people's horror in the face of euthanasia (of animals, let alone humans)

But I doubt most of us are free of it. Would you ignore someone convulsing in a noose, if you happened upon the scene?

I like to think I'd cut it down first, ask questions later

I agree that one ought to have a right to die, but I'd violate it a 100 times if it means at least one of them changed their mind (and I've known many who did)

 

[Tired_birth_1967]

Being human is simply something programmed by chance in a continuous process of "trial and error," seeking only to maintain life at any cost, even if that cost is pain and suffering. It is a mechanism, therefore, indifferent to pain and suffering. Everything we do in the current configuration of our system took millions of years to establish. And it never stops. We simply don't know how far it will go, just as our ancestors never knew. In short: automatic behavior. It's part of our inherited evolutionary programming. In other words, the SI is also present in this. It's the same thing that keeps us here. Even before the development of conscious logic, our brain reacts to threats to survival (including our own perception). Saving someone reinforces this instinct, activating areas that generate fear and automatic protective reactions. The human species is a grotesque thing generated by chance like any other species. It's grotesque and pathetic because behind what we understand as "emotions" there is only a cold and indifferent mechanism. We act according to a program, and our mind, without understanding this, names them as feelings. Whoever save you is acting automatically, it's not exactly because they care about you. It just seems that way. (I use Google Translate to communicate my ideas. The translation may contain errors)

 

[Captive_Mind515]

I thinks it's the innate fear of death. We try and prevent death as much as possible with little regard for reason and logic. Think, keeping the frail and elderly on life support or people's horror in the face of euthanasia (of animals, let alone humans)

But I doubt most of us are free of it. Would you ignore someone convulsing in a noose, if you happened upon the scene?

I like to think I'd cut it down first, ask questions later

I agree that one ought to have a right to die, but I'd violate it a 100 times if it means at least one of them changed their mind (and I've known many who did)

So screw over the 99 in order to possibly help 1 person?

You know if you cut someone down, you very likely could be condemning that person to live as a vegetable with very profound brain damage, right?

I don't consider these to be acts of kindness or compassion for suffering people.

 

[cyanidekitty]

I thinks it's the innate fear of death. We try and prevent death as much as possible with little regard for reason and logic. Think, keeping the frail and elderly on life support or people's horror in the face of euthanasia (of animals, let alone humans)

But I doubt most of us are free of it. Would you ignore someone convulsing in a noose, if you happened upon the scene?

I like to think I'd cut it down first, ask questions later

I agree that one ought to have a right to die, but I'd violate it a 100 times if it means at least one of them changed their mind (and I've known many who did)

you are right about this i think its probably just a natural reaction to help others in a situation like that. thank you for this

 

[FuneralCry]

Because they want others to be tortured, all that anti-suicide people want is for others to feel the agony and torture of existing for as much and as long as possible, it's just so evil, all that these people do is just cause way more harm and suffering in this dreadful, torturous existence where there is no limit as to how much agony one can feel, to me imprisoning others in this horrific reality is such a terrible crime.

It truly is the most evil anti-suicide world where those who want to peacefully escape from all future suffering and torture are punished by these people, to me humans truly are the worst species, it's so terrible how so many so tragically impose this existence onto others causing all this dreadful harm and suffering as a result yet do all they can to make it so others are tortured for as long as possible, existence truly is imprisonment, to suffer in this existence truly is the most terrible, undeserved punishment to me.

 

[cyanidekitty]

Ultimately, I think the one thing in this world that people are scared of as much as death is loss. Loss of anything. Loss of people, money, power, stability, etc etc.

People try to save life because they don't want to experience loss.

oh for sure