EmberEyes wrote:
JacktardedJake wrote:
Tomorrow will always be a better day.
Isn't that an outright lie?
Indeed! Trust an aspie to point that out.
While well-intentioned, such inane attempts to "cheer up" a suicidal person may well be counter-productive. I mean, they're just insulting to one's intelligence if you actually stop and think about them for a second, aren't they? I suppose they
might work for someone who is very NT, so it's the emotion behind the words that counts, not the meaning of the words.
If you'd like to read a frank discussion of suicide by highly intelligent, highly analytical people, take a look at this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3348671 The top post is especially good, but the whole thing is the most interesting discussion I've read on the topic of suicide.
Quote:
At one point I had a serious sit-down with myself about the topic of suicide. I went over the pros, the cons, ways to do it, the consequences to others and so on. I decided, this was an option. I also realized, I only get to choose it once.
I found this realization very comforting.
Ever since, I have been slightly annoyed at the "suicide is not the answer" stuff I read. I get pissed at the people who deride it. I hate the people who talk about it as not an option. It is an option, but a pretty drastic one.
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And I only need to decide for today. Do I want to do this today? Sure things are f****d up, but I sure would exit in a pretty sh***y situation: things undone, house a mess, porn not properly deleted from the computer, finances not in order, etc. So I won't do it today. Maybe I'll start getting ready to do it. Tomorrow I can decide again.