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Originally Posted by evanny
what's wrong with suicide as an answer?
you get tired of life so you decide to end it quicker. that is the only thing that actually belongs to a person so why not use it how and when you see fit? O.o
i don't think it is nice to call these people mentally ill since most of them aren't. if anything it's a stigma carried from governments since they lose workforce.
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Suicide is the great "non-answer". Your life is the greatest of all gifts, and throwing it away over the inability to deal with the problems of he world only adds another problem. It is much better to live for something than to die for it.
What do you think happens to the families of those who commit suicide? Mental health problems are a stigma, but an even worse one is when someone in your family commits suicide.
If you throw yourself in front of a train in Japan, your family is going to be hit with a huge bill. They will be forced to pay the railroad for the income lost by delaying the train. This typically runs in the tens of thousands of dollars. If you jump in front of the Shinkansen, it could cost one million dollares. If you commit suicide in an apartment building, your family will have to pay the landlord damages as no one will rent an apartment where there as been a suicide. The financial cost of 30,000 suicides per year is staggering, to families and to the economy.
If you hate your life so much, don't throw it away, just give it to someone else. Join the Peace Corps, the military, or become a migrant farm worker, any of these jobs will put your life to good use, and perhaps even teach you how to live yourself.