Quote Originally Posted by ThisWitheredMan View Post
Suicide is a right every living being reserves and should feel no shame in exercising, in my opinion. I tend to believe that this isn't "it", that there's more to existence. I also believe there's a reason we are here, but maybe your reason for being here was to commit suicide and effect whatever resulting consequences the world would experience as a result of your suicide? I love my life right now. There are times when things suck, but generally speaking, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. However, if I began suffering from crazy mental health issues or something happened where I decided I was done with this life, I don't think it's wrong for me to make my own exit. Ultimately, it seems like nothing really matters anyways. If your life is mostly suffering and awfulness, then suicide doesn't strike me as so unreasonable. Either there's an afterlife, which I'm convinced would be purely awesome and have none of that silly eternal torment stuff, OR, there ISN'T, and you simply go into peaceful oblivion.

My thinking though, is that if you are at the point of suicide, why not just start taking extreme-risk behaviors until you END UP dead? If I ever hit "suicide time", I think I'd just abandon all my fucks and go do something crazy to get myself killed rather than simply hanging myself. But then I guess when you hit that point all you really want is for it to be over.
You know what. I agree with this. I also believe there is an afterlife as well. Not the typical religious afterlife but an afterlife none the less. I agree that we incarnated here for a reason and purpose. I agree that you HAVE the right to end your life but only in the most dire of circumstances. Personally if I get something that can't be cured like some sort of mental illness like Alzheimers, I don't want to live the rest of my life NOT knowing who I am. But if it is something that can be overcome then suicide would not be necessary. Almost all problems are temporary so why use a permanent solution for a temporary problem?