(December 18, 2012 at 8:51 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Why does anyone feel like taking his own life?
There's so much to live for!
As Stimbo said, it's much more complicated than that, but I understand that people that have never been in a position where they felt the need to kill themselves can't really wrap their head around it. Ultimately, suicide is an act of desperation. It's an act that is undertaken when a person sees no way of escaping the daily and emotionally draining pain.
In my case, it wasn't something I ever thought I could even consider. After I dropped out of college I got extremely depressed, and then I ended up quitting my job. I was living in my parent's basement with nothing to do but to endure the painful days in a drug fueled haze. The daily experience of only being able to dull the pain wore me out, and eventually, I decided to take my life.
Didn't work though...
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
