Your thoughts on september-suicide prevention month?

[obei]

Idk it just seems like everyone wants mentally ill people to live at all costs - suffering or not. I am not exactly the one that would push people and tell them to ctb, but I dont feel like making people live in suffering just to make yourself happy is just cruel

 

[FuneralCry]

I find it disgusting how there is such a thing as suicide prevention month as suicide isn't something to be prevented, it's an individuals choice when to take control over their inevitable fate, suicide prevention is only prolonging suffering and such a thing just creates more harm.

People deserve to have their wish to die respected instead as the right to die is compassionate and is a human right after all, nobody is obligated to continue existing here. And suicide prevention disgusts me as not everyone even wants to exist in the first place and for many people the only relief lies in death, suicide is something relieving as it means freedom from suffering.

 

[Davey36000]

People use band aids but never fix the root problems...

Suicidal people will continue to exist in this type of society.

 

[StolenLife]

It's just something pro lifers have made up so that they can feel like they are contributing to some noble cause and to sate their hero complex. Though I assume that they have good intentions.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

BS

 

[Hollowman]

It's a waste of time and energy.

 

[outrider567]

What a joke

 

[Xta4Love]

I might celebrate this month by CBTing

 

[unending_emptiness]

I wish I could be delusional and think that suicide prevention is so great. But really nothing happens during those 30 days. It's just a month where well- off individuals feel good about themselves by talking about suicide and how it's so horrible and can never be the right solution. I don't believe it even prevents a person from committing suicide as every year the same words are repeated and it does not help that all the slogans, campaigns and posts are so generic. What disturbs me the most is that I bet some people are making a profit from this month. Just posting something anti suicide in September (or even any month even ) will land you with so much praise and compliments. And thing is, a lot of us suicidal people are never represented correctly: in movies, in ads, you name it. Sucide prevention month is very comical especially seeing those ads featuring suicidal characters and the ads saying the same generic bullsh*it every single time. I guess I don't mind it cause it can get me a good laugh every so often.

 

[passivethought121]

Hate it. I feel like it doesn't do anything. "Recognize the signs!!" but when most people see those signs they don't come to this conclusion. "Someone's withdrawn and saying dangerous or concerning things? Better stay away from them."

Also find it very annoying that I'm reminded of it more frequently. I always think I can't get worse, then I do, coincidentally on these weeks/months.

 

[Myexit]

I might celebrate this month by CBTing

You said exactly what I was thinking and going to write as reply

 

[DeadHead]

To hell with it. September has always been my preferred month to leave.

 

[アホペンギン]

Its sickening how such a month exists. What I understand is that people want to prevent people from finding peace even further than they already do, by making a month dedicated to it. People should respect our right to die and not interfere with our choices. Furthermore, they should not decide what is right or wrong for us. Our body, our rules.

BS

I cannot agree more

 

[Huggs]

Suicide prevention is quite literally just tossing someone into jail, stripping them of their rights for wanting to leave this terrible planet then bleeding them dry for cash.

 

[TheRottingContinues]

Unpopular opinion, but I honestly believe suicide prevention month is a good thing. Somebody who's on the fence about CTB might be helped by it. What I don't believe to deny somebody the right to die. If somebody has taken a rational look at their life and decided that they want to die, it's not up to an outside party to stop them.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Isn't every month suicide prevention month, anymore? It certainly seems like it, at least here in the states. Like every 2 minutes they show public service announcements about getting help, how to get help, to reach out for help, that kind of thing. They've been airing for months and months. Even the newscasts have gotten into the act with special segments devoted to depression, mental health, and suicide prevention.

 

[obei]

Isn't every month suicide prevention month, anymore? It certainly seems like it, at least here in the states. Like every 2 minutes they show public service announcements about getting help, how to get help, to reach out for help, that kind of thing. They've been airing for months and months. Even the newscasts have gotten into the act with special segments devoted to depression, mental health, and suicide prevention.

Wow, didnt know that since I dont live in the states. But here every year on september its like suicide prevention month and they talk about it on shows and all the social media and all that. Idk.

 

[vitbar]

Mixed feelings. I am pro-choice, but recognise that sometimes my urge has been almost entirely my mental health issues. People wanting to prevent those kind of deaths have my sympathy.

I have a friend who finds themself going into episodes of deep depression where he has made attempts on his life. Outside of these bad times he is glad to have failed and been helped.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

Perfect time to go.

 

[tora]

oh I didn't know it's suicide prevention month; that's kinda ironic since I'm planning to CTB next month lol

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Wow, didnt know that since I dont live in the states. But here every year on september its like suicide prevention month and they talk about it on shows and all the social media and all that. Idk.

Some of it may have to do with we have a very much pro-life president, as far as his personal beliefs are concerned. There's definitely been an uptick in the amount of "mental health" PSAs since Biden took office. I don't begrudge him that.

 

[AbsurdCapybara]

Dick-waving virtue signaling.

 

[catotoctb]

Idk it just seems like everyone wants mentally ill people to live at all costs - suffering or not. I am not exactly the one that would push people and tell them to ctb, but I dont feel like making people live in suffering just to make yourself happy is just cruel

For me, it's horrible to have people telling you that suicide is an horrorful thing to do and you need to prevent it when that same people are happy o partially happy with their lives. I just think they are egoists. Nobody wants to live a life that considered horrible because we are humans and we just want to have our desired life but pro-lifers think that suicide is a selfish choice when it isn't.

- Cato

 

[vault]

If always thought that if I end up CTB, i want to do it in september in spite of exactly that

 

[DeadManLiving]

Suicides by the majority are not preventable. Most are permanent solutions to permanent problems, from organic pathologies to identity or personality anomalies (spanning a broad and complex multi-spectral of circumstances of inhumane and intolerable magnitude) with no known remedies and poorly understood. The more restrictions on means of access, the greater the harm to society and the suicidal survivors, as they are forced and limited to resort to less-than-lethal (train, intentional car crash, jumping) methods, which carry significantly greater casualties or permanent lifelong disabilities.

 

[Gonnerr]

Only empty phrases, no real solution to our suffering.

For most of us , its a really good permanent solutions which is a permanent problem aka pain and life in itself.

Being set free of this world is ok and the right to die is constantly flouted by society.

Earth is beautiful but society and that shitty species aka human being = shit. Too bad we have to set ourself free from that shitty society with the best methods we can.

 

[mochiie]

There's literally no point of it. It's a waste and doesn't prevent a damn thing.

 

[mono]

I find it sickening that people force others to live because they think that life is great. It's not their choice on whether someone lives or not. It's just selfish.

 

[Borderline]

I might celebrate this month by CBTing

The only right thing to do this month.

 

[zurukunai]

Idk it just seems like everyone wants mentally ill people to live at all costs - suffering or not. I am not exactly the one that would push people and tell them to ctb, but I dont feel like making people live in suffering just to make yourself happy is just cruel

if they really wanted to stop me from killing myself they would give me the financial support i'm lacking