why does society has such an big issue with suicide/talking about suicide?

[_Minsk]

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[Grav]

I think it has to do with facing the reality that there are people who don't fit into the mold. Once realized then it brings up other questions that are uncomfortable. Like when a family just doesn't discuss "drunk uncle jim" even though they see him because then they'd feel the need to address the problem. Just on a bigger scale. At least that's how I feel when I witness the reaction of most people.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

Because society itself, the existence of society, is a defense against death and extinction.
Suicide is the ultimate 'no' to society and ultimately a rejection of humanity.

Society and suicide are incompatible, in a way they are at war.
I know who I side with.

 

[Sensei]

I think there's a multitude of reasons: people don't want to be reminded of their mortality; it's in conflict with the strongest human instinct, i.e. to survive; it goes against the idea that the population of a nation or even mankind as a whole must proliferate; the old Christian notion that suicide is a sin is still widespread, although mostly on a subconscious level; and so on and so forth.

 

[so tired or manic]

ignorance is bliss

 

[TAW122]

As for society, yes @Sensei nailed it, due to religion. Also, even today with pseudosciences like psychiatry and psychology out there, some of the old religious values have been rebranded and repackaged into this new secular religion. I see psychiatry more as a means of social control and social conformity to the social order. It is a way to keep people in line with what the status quo is.

 

[Deleted member 17949]

I think people are somewhat offended by the idea of having to explain why life is worth living. Even mentally healthy people have to find positivity in life for it to seem worth it, and when you are trying to live life happily it may come off as toxic when someone is talking about how they don't find life to be worth living. When people have gotten annoyed with me over suicidal thoughts I've always got the impression that they just hate me questioning whether life is good. In their eyes it should be obvious that life has value and suicide is bad.

 

[Belit667]

@cryptic__egg Religious reasons mosly. This is the lasts time I talk about religion. Mods hunt me down in order to ban me for talking about religion so I will shut my trap now.

 

[Shinkansen]

because every suicide is one less person who works and pays taxes.

 

[Sensei]

I see psychiatry more as a means of social control and social conformity to the social order. It is a way to keep people in line with what the status quo is.

So when a psychiatrist is trying to help someone with schizophrenia to stop hallucinating, it's nothing more than an exercise in social control?

 

[Belit667]

So when a psychiatrist is trying to help someone with schizophrenia to stop hallucinating, it's nothing more than an exercise in social control?

No, some psychiatrists do want to help people in need.

 

[AllReturnsToNothing]

This is the way the system was designed to work in the first place. The need to weed out the weak was always seen as a necessary to keep the endless capital machine running. And to keep it that way, everybody is told to look towards band-aid solutions (often which are financially preditory) instead of looking inwards at the underlying problems the system was built upon in the first place and working to change things for the better.

 

[nerve]

As a rule, we (humanity) usually don't like talking about death in general. Suicide is essentially looking right at death and being like "sign me the fuck up" and I get how that might amplify the natural discomfort a lot people feel around dying.

I think death, but suicide especially, makes people uncomfortable and activates a caveman part of the brain that wants us to get as far away from the negative (and potentially dangerous) stimuli as possible.

 

[Fear191829218]

I think its because with suicide, you are leaving society. Everyone struggles in life, even the non suicidal ones. But they just are able to convince themselves that there is some purpose, some meaning to life. Talking about suicide will make them see the other reality, feel the pain and meaningless of life.

 

[Wayfaerer]

Suicide costs the state money so we can't have any of that. Point is, the state needs to keep people alive!

 

[Circles]

People just can't accept reality. As soon as they're confronted with the possibility of suicide it's like it leaves an almost dispiriting opened door that they choose to resist. It's like how atleast in my opinion I believe most people don't even question their lives let alone question what's the point of it all. It's basically the survival instinct trying to find a way to continue even when confronted with the truth.