RE: Suicide
August 9, 2015 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2015 at 4:19 pm by Regina.)
The most heartbreaking thing about that is that actually yes, if you were to top yourself your family actually would be devastated. They may have no idea how you felt. A common thing I hear from families who lost a loved one from suicide was "I had no idea they felt that way, I wish I knew so I could have done more to help them recover".
Losing a loved one is hard enough (I know that, having lost my Dad to cancer just 2 months ago, he would turn 53 today it's his birthday), but it's even harder knowing they felt so tormented that they took their own life. It would leave you feeling helpless, you'd blame yourself for the rest of your life. That's the main thought that turned me away from suicide. I just never had it in me to put my parents through that.
Losing a loved one is hard enough (I know that, having lost my Dad to cancer just 2 months ago, he would turn 53 today it's his birthday), but it's even harder knowing they felt so tormented that they took their own life. It would leave you feeling helpless, you'd blame yourself for the rest of your life. That's the main thought that turned me away from suicide. I just never had it in me to put my parents through that.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
