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Originally Posted by TexanAvenger
I cannot, at the moment of writing this, concieve of a situation where it is better to die than to be alive.
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But what about when you consider how it would affect your family and you realize they would be better off if you killed yourself?
Which is going to more negatively affect a family:
a slow, prolonged, expensive death of cancer.
a quick, painless, "accidental" death that provides your family with insurance.
I've thought about it, and how, if made to look like an accident say while driving off a cliff, could result in money for my family. Is it really selfish to want them to be taken care of?
The other option is to die slowly. Have them watch you every day as you get weaker. Have them take care of you when you can no longer clean yourself. My dad did that to us. I know he hated it, and I hated having to see it. Instead of driving his motorcycle into a tree he held on for two years. Two years that cost us a ridiculous amount of money and made my mother lose her house. Now she lives one step up from a trailer park. Do I wish my dad had killed himself? I don't know. But I do know that I'm not selfish enough to hang on while I drain my own and and my family's bank accounts. My life isn't worth that much.
It's not always selfish. Sometimes it's doing the most considerate thing for others that you can do under the circumstances.