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this is a thread about suicide
im not trying to become an hero.
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...if you're incapable of thinking critically (or at all), you really should stray away from a forum that asks you to take a legitimate stance.
Onto the topic of suicide - I want to stem off of Marcus' question here:
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When is suicide "acceptable"? Where do we draw the line?
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A major problem with this question is the fact that people pass off the potential predicaments that a person could have been in, and use the same general answer saying that it's selfish and that they could have talked to x people.
When a situation like this happens, I find it very difficult to believe that those who commit suicide can actually talk to someone, otherwise they probably would not proceed with the action in the first place. If there was a shoulder for a person to seriously and legitimately cry on, they would probably take it. It is also the very same reason why those who are typically "close" with the victim are in complete shock and agony because they never felt or sensed that they could commit such an action. It almost seems like the extreme pain within a person's mind is so much that a proper idea would be to physically (and permanently) eliminate yourself from everything else around you in an effort to stop anymore pain from entering your life. While this thought seamlessly fits into the definition of selfish, it's also logical at a basic level.
Now, I personally don't condone suicide in any form, because it's almost always true - a person who is in such pain usually will have SOMEONE they can turn to; they just do not realize it.
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The only way I could see suicide as personally valid is if you somehow live through it. What meaning does suicide have then? As a meaningless act, there's no reason to do or not do it, or anything else.
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By definition, this would no longer be a suicide. HOWEVER, I do understand where you're trying to go with this idea - if a person were to inflict so much pain to themselves only to not die, what would they do then? It would be meaningless in a sense, but I don't think it would detract future thoughts of suicide. If anything, it might make them even worse.
EDIT: Darkshark pretty much summed it up the same way I did before I finished my post.