Why is suicide "never an option"?

[hurts2b]

So many people get on a soapbox about how suicide is never an option, and about how things can get better.

I just don't see how it matters? Why should it matter at all what's "possible"? Why does vague hope oblige you to stay but no amount of suffering obliges anyone else to care for you?

Death is irreversible, sure, but so is creating life, or having surgery or a number of other choices. Irreversibility alone isn't enough to say something is *never* an option.

I just don't get why suicide is never an option. Some people will literally justify murder (in self defense) and STILL say suicide is unacceptable.

Doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[Macedonian1987]

Let those people who say that suicide is never an option suffer the life I had for just 1 month (not 20 years), they would probably change their opinion in a hurry. People who say suicide is never an option are ignorant people who are having good lives.

 

[Spite]

My mum has said this to me before.

I think the reason why a lot of people say this (and other similar sentiments) is because they cannot see this world as anything other than this happy, bubbly place that is so heckin' awesome and you should be grateful to be alive, and simply cannot fathom how someone might not see it that way.

A lot of people also like to parrot the "pain is temporary, quitting is forever" statement, which is so invalidating and inaccurate I don't even know where to begin in explaining why it's just something you should not say to a suicidal person.