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So that you can rob all the banks and no-one will be able to stop you. But your plan will be foiled, because everyone will be dead the money will be WORTHLESS, you FOOL!
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Why is suicide so often associated with mental issues? She could have been in perfect mental health and still wanted to do it.
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I think it's generally held that the desire to end one's life is in and of itself indicative of an absence of "perfect mental health."
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Oh, really? I'm sure victims of neck-down paralysation would disagree with you.
Extremely arrogant to assume that anyone who wishes to end his/her life *must* be mentally unstable...
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Then you should look at the Asian countries with higher rates of suicide due to stupid things. I remember a time where the pressure from my family to succeed at all costs drove me to jump off a building's roof. Maybe she's experienced something similar.
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The concept of destroying oneself is against nature, and so it's guarded by many safeguards in the human psyche. Many people who think they are suicidal are merely experiencing sadness and self-pity, and so the feelings of suicide are halted and taken up in the consciousness, to be dramatized and experienced. The ones that REALLY do it seldom think about it long, it just passes through.
I read Sierra Leone had the highest suicide rate in the world as of 2002, the conditions there are very beneficial towards that end.
If I'm sounding blunt it's because I've studied it in school and talked about it a lot with my former therapist, it's not disillusionment, just frankness.
Compared to not existing, even cleaning the filth of your hospitalized, senile father/mother is paradise, because life is the only thing you get for free, and your body. It's being in the game.
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