Dezaad
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Easier said than done, though, Dezaad.
Absolutely agree.
Easier said than done, though, Dezaad.
That's why you can't let it get to you. You have to realize that you did everything you could, and he was going to do this no matter what you said or did.
It was like trying to save a drowning person..Let me jump on your back and you can save me..or we can both drown together..
It was like trying to save a drowning person..Let me jump on your back and you can save me..or we can both drown together..
Well put. This is why I have the utmost respect for mental health professionals and the volunteers such as the Samaritans: people who are prepared to try to save the drowning, despite the risks to their own mental welfare. I think I'm seeing you in a different light here, Wolfie.
To my earlier comments I'd simply add that I'm not sure why people automatically feel that a person contemplating the end of their life must naturally be depressed or somehow mental incompetent. To me, it seems perfectly normal to contemplate what you may or may not want to do when you've lived all the life you care to live and don't see pleasure or fulfillment in the life that remains. Why is it noble or sane to be forced or to be required to take all measures to breathe the most breaths possible by whatever means possible? I believe in self-determination and I'd like to make the decision when I've had enough.
To my earlier comments I'd simply add that I'm not sure why people automatically feel that a person contemplating the end of their life must naturally be depressed or somehow mental incompetent. To me, it seems perfectly normal to contemplate what you may or may not want to do when you've lived all the life you care to live and don't see pleasure or fulfillment in the life that remains. Why is it noble or sane to be forced or to be required to take all measures to breathe the most breaths possible by whatever means possible? I believe in self-determination and I'd like to make the decision when I've had enough.
Thank you...
Wish the mods could see me in the same light...:lamo
To my earlier comments I'd simply add that I'm not sure why people automatically feel that a person contemplating the end of their life must naturally be depressed or somehow mental incompetent. To me, it seems perfectly normal to contemplate what you may or may not want to do when you've lived all the life you care to live and don't see pleasure or fulfillment in the life that remains. Why is it noble or sane to be forced or to be required to take all measures to breathe the most breaths possible by whatever means possible? I believe in self-determination and I'd like to make the decision when I've had enough.
How is this not depression?
Option 6. I usually tend to commit suicide.
Is it ever rational to try to kill yourself? Perhaps in a few desperate situations (Like burning to death or jumping from a high rise building. And a slew of other things like that) but outside of definite rational reasons then everything else is shades of irrational behavior. And some people who do commit suicide had a good grasp on reality. i have known a few that had a good grasp of reality and what they were doing and why. One definitely only did it because he was being a asshole.
I wonder whether your opinion is a result of the availability of doctor assisted suicide in your national health care. I do assume for the government that a case of doctor assisted suicide would be cheaper than a treatment program for a patient esp. given that it would have to be more thorough than an regular outpatient for just a regular case of Major Depression. The fact of the matter is that someone who is suicidal needs help dealing with their mental illness and strategies to avoid committing suicide they do not need help to commit suicide in a clinical setting.
Would you hold the same opinion if the person concerned is 25 rather than 85?
How is this not depression?