What's the big idea? Why do people get there panties in a bunch about people offing themselves? I would rather have a dead person on my hands then a very angry and depressed ticking bomb. If they don't kill themselves they're going to kill someone else so let the be. Some people can't kill themselves so they get others to help. That's true love. If you care for a person enough to see that they are suffering and they need to be put to rest so u swallow ur feelings and go for it. People who don't believe in assisted suicide or don't believe in suicide it self then they aren't compassionate and are heartless. Would you rather see someone suffer and in pain 24/7 or would u rather allow them to go. People need to unbunch their panties and relax. Death is death. Whether u kill urself, have someone do it for you, or die naturally you are going to die anyway. The people who are fussing about this issue are the ones who don't have the guts to do it. Life is awesome and i know that. I love life but i also know that it will end maybe tonight i don't know, but what i do know is that i am ok with it. I have come to terms with death.
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I think people get so upset about it because it is a preventable ill, a permanent solution to a temporary problem. For many who have survived suicide, they believe reaching the edge is what saved them. In what they thought was their final moment they knew how to solve their problems. But more than that, a tragic end to a life not fully lived is something we should all feel bad about, especially when it was self inflicted. People usually reach out for help a number of times. I think many people have "their panties in a bunch" because they feel guilty for not having helped more or seen how much pain someone was in. Yes, death is death, but many people who duck out early had so much more to give than that. The end of a life is always sad and suicide leaves so many unanswered questions and so much pain behind. All in all it is a very selfish thing to do, but many who attempt it can't see that because they are in so much pain. Taking the easy way out in life is rarely the right option.
**I add a sidebar that for terminal illness and endless suffering I do believe in being allowed to die with dignity. I find it tragic when untreated depression or a mis-interpretation of the world leads people to believe suicide is their only option.
I can second that one hundred percent.
A year ago as of this Saturday, my cousin killed himself. My aunt, who separated from her husband several years ago, was crushed. She was basically unable to really function until fairly recently, but now the family Alzheimer's has set in. I'm not going to link my cousin's death to the Alzheimer's, but I will link it to her general disorientation and inability to function at her best. One of my other cousins, his brother, who was merely reluctant to do anything with his life before, has now moved into complete apathy. He's just uninterested in everything. My one cousin who's been able to move on has since moved to New York, so he is unable to offer as much support to his mother and brother. My cousin's "offing himself", as you so tastelessly put it, left his family, and my own (my mother was close to him; my older brother was the same age as him and got along fairly well with him), and countless others whom he knew, grasping at stray threads to hold together.
When people speak of people who kill themselves as victims, they miss the true victims, the people who are left to deal with the aftermath of death.
I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. So, word.