I would much rather like to talk about wether one should commit suicide in the first place, without looking at that persons mental situation, but looking at the act itself.
I'm going to approach this with the ideas of a great thinker called Albert Camus, in which line of thought I place myself. I will try to explain in my best English.
We have all asked many question about life, our existence, time, ... they all remain unanswerd by the universe, regardless of how much we try or struggle. This, us having questions without the universe answering, we call 'the absurd'. It can be seen trough the endless same boring days, death, things happening seemingly without any reason, questioning your purpose and existence,... Someone who has encountered it and cannot find a solution, society usually labels 'being in an existenial crisis' or 'depressed'. Once a person has stumbled on it he has multiple option of what he can do.
(The things between brackets has no extra value to what I want to say, but they rather complete the big picture so it's easier to understand.)
(1: He returns to his old life, trying to forget all what he has seen and just keep on moving.
2: He lies the answers beyond his life. They wait in his eternal life after death possesed by an almighty creature.)
3: He concludes he will never get answers, knowing his life has neither a given purpose nor meaning. Thus he finds no reason why to exist and commits suicide.
(4: He becomes an absurd hero, as he accepts the absurd, himself giving his life a purpose so that he can make the world a little less absurd, although knowing he cannot succeed and his effort is meaningless. This is quite difficult to explain, so I'll stop here and if you want to know more I suggest you read: The Myth of Sysiphos: And essay about the absurd - Albert Camus. )
As you see, once he discovers his whole life has been 'a lie' with no meaning and no given purpose, he flees instead of embracing it and giving it its own meaning and purpose, accepting the absurdity of it all, that life is a joke and you can die any moment without having had any impact on the universe since it thrives without direction nor destination. Why would you quit? Why not play on the beach called the universe building sandcastles? As a child you know it will be washed away and nodody will ever know there ever was a sandcastle, no matter how majestic and big, but still you made one and you had damn much fun doing so.
To conclude there is nothing against suicide but it would be the least fun option of them all.
This all to say what you all already knew. Although I find it a good thing to tell people when they start dragging about how they see no point in their lives and cry about being here.
I hope I didn't write some too weird things, my mind isn't very clear atm.
I'm going to approach this with the ideas of a great thinker called Albert Camus, in which line of thought I place myself. I will try to explain in my best English.
We have all asked many question about life, our existence, time, ... they all remain unanswerd by the universe, regardless of how much we try or struggle. This, us having questions without the universe answering, we call 'the absurd'. It can be seen trough the endless same boring days, death, things happening seemingly without any reason, questioning your purpose and existence,... Someone who has encountered it and cannot find a solution, society usually labels 'being in an existenial crisis' or 'depressed'. Once a person has stumbled on it he has multiple option of what he can do.
(The things between brackets has no extra value to what I want to say, but they rather complete the big picture so it's easier to understand.)
(1: He returns to his old life, trying to forget all what he has seen and just keep on moving.
2: He lies the answers beyond his life. They wait in his eternal life after death possesed by an almighty creature.)
3: He concludes he will never get answers, knowing his life has neither a given purpose nor meaning. Thus he finds no reason why to exist and commits suicide.
(4: He becomes an absurd hero, as he accepts the absurd, himself giving his life a purpose so that he can make the world a little less absurd, although knowing he cannot succeed and his effort is meaningless. This is quite difficult to explain, so I'll stop here and if you want to know more I suggest you read: The Myth of Sysiphos: And essay about the absurd - Albert Camus. )
As you see, once he discovers his whole life has been 'a lie' with no meaning and no given purpose, he flees instead of embracing it and giving it its own meaning and purpose, accepting the absurdity of it all, that life is a joke and you can die any moment without having had any impact on the universe since it thrives without direction nor destination. Why would you quit? Why not play on the beach called the universe building sandcastles? As a child you know it will be washed away and nodody will ever know there ever was a sandcastle, no matter how majestic and big, but still you made one and you had damn much fun doing so.
To conclude there is nothing against suicide but it would be the least fun option of them all.
This all to say what you all already knew. Although I find it a good thing to tell people when they start dragging about how they see no point in their lives and cry about being here.
I hope I didn't write some too weird things, my mind isn't very clear atm.
whatever floats your goat
