Suicide isn't changing their life, it's ending it. That's like saying life isn't complete without death, when death is makes life incomplete.
You say you wouldn't want somebody forcing you to live a life you no longer wanted, but by killing yourself you force others to change their lives to deal with that. And, in many cases, that change is
exceptionally negative, sometimes causing others to end their lives as well.
I don't think it's a necessarily valid statement to say that only the person contemplating suicide is suitable to judge their own life as valuable. There's a multitude of things that most people can't see about their own lives because they are simply too close to the subject.
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Originally Posted by guccilvr
I'm going to say this and I better not get bashed for it. I find suicide to be a very beautiful thing. Sure some will call it selfish and it makes others sad but I guess the idea of taking your life on your own terms, on your own time, being in control of destiny (sorta) makes it beautiful to me. Oh and before you bash, I've had a friend kill herself.. so spare me.
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I can actually see where you're coming from here. And, in a dark kind of way, it is actually fairly beautiful. But I still think that more beautiful things, light and dark, can be created in a person's life if it is lengthened by not ending it yourself.