Man Commits Suicide at DLH

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, i'm sure for the vast majority of those who actually commit suicide, that option was the best one thought available. That does not make it the easy way out.

You needn't answer this, because it's getting very personal, but i have to wonder if seemed "simple" or "easy" for you to to end your own life.


Sorry to be nitpicky on words. If you had said "it seemed the most simple solution," I would not have jumped on it. But too many call it the "easy way out." And especially coming from someone who purportedly got very, very close the snuff point, I find that very offensive.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, i'm sure for the vast majority of those who actually commit suicide, that option was the best one thought available. That does not make it the easy way out.

I cannot speak for others; I can only speak from my own experience. As I said above, it was the EASIEST way out. I even acknowledged that fact to myself. And I have heard that from others. I just wanted to the pan to be over.

But this is not a cavalier statement. It is a point that I and others make to emphasize a point. In dealing with someone contemplating the same thing, I say the same thing: suicide is the easy way out. And there aren't many things where the easy way is the better way.

I am educated and it affords me an opportunity to have things in life that I probably wouldn't have had I taken the easier way of not getting an education.

I enjoy a long-term relationship because I work hard at it. I could choose to take the easier way and just bail out when anything challenging comes up.

I am alive today because I chose to work hard to overcome my depression. Had I taken the easy way out, you would not be reading these words.