In general, people would much prefer to ignore the ugly and raw realities of pain and misery. Because if we don't acknowledge it, it must not exist.
Talking about suicide and ending a life filled with that level of pain and misery takes away the opportunity for blissful ignorance. It forces one to reconcile their intentionally oblivious outlook with the reality that sometimes a person hurts so much that ending a life is a better option than enduring it.
And that is too much for some to be willing to look at, let alone acknowledge or understand.
Just my two cents...
I really is a hard truth to swallow. Honestly if I hadn't had the life I have, then I may have been like these other people. It just makes me jealous of animals, because people will almost always put them down and think it's the right thing to do, to spare them the pain of the illness or sometimes, the behavioral issues are so severe they simply cannot have a quality of life. But when it comes to humans, who are thought of as a much more evolved species, we are socially pressured and forced into fighting for something that doesn't exist for those people. I agree treatment for mental health issues needs to be available, but when treatment doesn't work or there isn't a cure, then we should be able to decide to end our misery.
I hate how society pretends that everyone can just start fresh at any age. It is hard enough to stay afloat much less restart your life. I think it is a good idea to explore different possibilities before you ctb. But after a certain point you kind of get an understanding of how life works.
I don't think there is any shame in calling it quits early. After all death is something we all have to face eventually. Only you can make this decision, whatever it may be. It is definitely hard though.
Exactly, they act like you can just wipe the slate clean at any time. Like... no. If I could just erase my trauma, debt, bills, CPTSD and god knows what else, don't you think people WOULD? I've moved across the country a few times to "start over" and at first it sort of works, but then it all catches up to you. really, I'm only here because I have a duty to my dog to care for him. I don't want him thinking I just abandoned him because he wasn't good enough, poor dog has been through two other homes before I got him at a year old. And I don't really trust anyone else to fully care for him properly, so yeah.
These are my thoughts exactly. Like word for word. Thank you. Someone gets it. (Well all you lovely people on this site get it.)
I think it's because it's scary for people who've never had major or traumatic issues to admit that things can get so bad you want to CTB. They want to pretend it doesn't happen so they don't have to fear about it happening to them. And yeah, that's exactly the thing about therapists. You can never be totally honest or you'll have your freedom and rights taken away from you. Fucking hell.
I wish there were therapists specifically for those of us considering death. Someone who could counsel us about the various treatment options, and if those didn't work or the person really wanted to die, they could give us a dose of the pink juice. Like, make sure people aren't suffering from curable depression and only having tunnel vision, but let those of us who truly have thought it out and want to end our suffering die in a dignified and humane way.
Because society needs people to keep breeding and keep buying things
Ah, another thing to blame on capitalism. It really is the worst possible thing, isn't it?
Your question has a baked in assumption that doesn't always hold: medically assisted suicide is widely supported in many Western countries. Suicide is not always frowned upon. Though one can debate if suicide among the terminally ill is really suicide, any more than jumping out of a burning building is.
True, but in most cases that I am aware of, the person has to be seriously and terminally ill before they are allowed to do so. And in the US at least, it is still extremely controversial and frowned upon by many people.
