Well not calling sucide what it is. A very selfish act.
It's a desperate act. There was still nothing in the statement you replied to that was denial.
Apparently, you have never been touched by depression or suicide. Consider yourself blessed.
IMO, people who commit suicide are in such horrible pain they truly feel the only way to stop it, is to take their own life. It's desperation, not selfishness.
I can only imagine the emotional or physical suffering these people have endured that makes their life not worth living anymore.
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It must be pretty damned selfish of someone that has bone cancer to live in constant, intractable pain with no hope of delivery short of unconsciousness or death.
Pretty selfish of someone to not want to live in pain, to not want to be a sight hard to look at, to know that others will have to clean you after you soil yourself...
Yeah, it's pretty selfish to not want to live like that.
My uncle who died slowly of bone cancer and was resuscitated despite a DNR told me his only regret was not taking his own life when it was still in his power to do so and made me promise to never allow myself to get into that position.
I wouldn't have thought it selfish at all for him to have ended his own life.
My dear friend and first cousin took a shotgun to his head and ended his terrible pain due to spinal cancer. His wife seemed relieved that the pain was over, but she, a natural remedy freak, would not allow him to have pain medication (morphine) and he was so stressed out, he saw no other way out. I still miss the guy. His former wife has married twice since then and I still have trouble thinking about his unnecessary pain for months and her strange stance.