Why?

[Ligottian]

Why are so many people shocked when a person takes their life? Is it THAT hard to understand that some people's lives become absolutely unbearable and unfixable. Silly question I guess. Just another normie thing.

 

[MyShadow]

People fear death. They fear losing those whom they love. Their religious beliefs also play a role.
Some will call us weak. Others will call it a tragedy because we gave up.

I hate that cliche that "Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem". I hate it because it is inaccurate and oversimplifies what people like us deal with every single day.

Some of us have run out of options in terms of the economy and housing. Some live in chronic pain. Some of us carry the sorrow of significant loss. Some live day to day at the mercy of their mental health symptoms and medication or therapy just make it worse.

Personally, I carry all of the above and knowing that exiting on my own terms gives me the peace that I never found in life.

I just hope to find the courage to start acquiring the materials I need to end this painful journey.
I wish you peace in whatever you decide for yourself.

 

[JesiBel]

From the Catholic faith (the one from my country), you become a rebel against God. He gives you life and He takes it away. Your ills, sufferings, and sorrows are your Cross, and like Christ, you must bear them until death. Life is a Divine/Sacred gift. Such a 'vile act' will tarnish your family's name. Those who have strayed from the Path do these things, it is unforgivable.

Also in Dante's Divine Comedy, suicidal people end up in one of the circles of hell (where those who are violent against themselves remain)

 

[FuneralCry]

I'd never be able to understand why anyone would be shocked as well as I personally find existing to be so torturous and futile, I find it so deeply undesirable to exist and I'd just always prefer to not exist than suffer in this dreadful existence I just always saw as a mistake, for me wanting to cease existing is a response to existence itself, it's all I know, the thought of suffering until old age is so horrific to me.

 

[Dejected 55]

Most people don't know... most people don't want to know. I don't blame anyone for not knowing, and for being honest about not knowing. I have no patience for people who pretend to know or say they know just to avoid deeper thought. I have no tolerance for platitudes either. I do not like being ignored, but I would rather be ignored than pandered.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

The broad majority of human beings enjoys their lives, they want to live as long as possible and they do everything in their power to achieve this. Even a bad life is better than not living anymore for most of the people. They can´t stand a future without existing anymore so much, that they invent many variants of an afterlife. They are able to ignore their mortality so much, that they feel immortal all days of their life except for the last one. This can be summed up under survival instinct.

The few who are able to overcome their survival instinct and kill themselves are stanger than aliens to the majority and of course this majority is shocked.

 

[Jisatsu]

For most, life is difficult but survivable..they've never felt the kind of relentless, crushing pain that makes existence feel utterly unbearable. So when someone ends their life, it challenges their worldview. They're shocked because they assume everyone has a breaking point like theirs, not realizing some people's suffering is on a completely different, inescapable level.
It's not that it's "hard to understand" in an certain sense it's that the intensity of that kind of pain is inconceivable to someone who hasn't felt it. And society doesn't teach people to really confront the extreme edges of despair.