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Morality of suicide
| Before you were not,for a long time. After you will be not, for a really long time.
In between there is a blip of a moment that you are. A bit of a change from the continuous boredom of not being can be good once in a while.
| Suicide is in many cases net positive suffering, if minimizing suffering among society is desirable then suicide is not.
| There is never really a period of non-being, that mindset tends to revolve around ego when our true existence transcends the human experience. There is form and there is the formless, but we are both. If you lift the veil of maya, you would see the man behind the curtain is none other than yourself.
| Nigga be trippin balls on sum sheeit, yous be sayin dat 2pac really be alive nigga??? He dead nigga.
| Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up all of ye.
| just kys
| I can't stand when people say "killing yourself is the most selfish thing you could do" as if forcing someone to stay alive when they're suffering isn't just as, if not more selfish.
That's like if I were to waterboard you all day everyday and then when you get to die because you've had enough I were to say "wow what the fuck think about how much I would miss you you selfish prick jeez how about thinking about other people???"
If someone's sad enough to want to die let them.
| JUST shsUTS UP
| People have every right to make that decision for themselves. You don't even need to be suffering, some literally just don't want to exist.
| I have a friend who's suicidal and attempted suicide three times so far, and I after reading this I'm not sure whether or not to just let them live in this mindset. But then again I feel like if they kill themselves they'd be running from their issues BC them wanting to be dead stems from depression. I sound kinda rude since I'm implying that they're weak, but that's just me. I've cried many times waking up from dreams when they were successful, and I want them to get help 1/2
| But seeing this, I feel like I would be selfish keeping them alive. Yet I actually feel for them, and want them to get better, with or without me. I don't believe in suicide, and I want them to live past the age of 18 and get away from what's been plauging them. 2/2
| Here's the thing, shouldn't run from problems, address them head on. But what if you go through college, land a solid job and earn more than the average family earns, but you still think about suicide? There is no reason, in fact you have every reason to not want to commit suicide, yet here you are driving home from work fantasizing about killing yourself? For some of us, we would rather be a fly on the wall, observing the universe.
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| Many believe that you should not kill yourself even if you simply wish to not exist. People tend to think it's depression and what about your friends and family who will suffer because of your suicide?
You are not obligated to stay alive. The only thing stopping you is fear of the non-experience of formless existence. Why should the attachment of others factor into my life decisions? Why fear the inevitable? Bodies die, egos die, but the fundamental suchness, tathātā, is eternal.