I recently watched the HBO movie You don't know Jack. At the time this really happened with Dr Khevorkian I remember being kind of torn on the issue, but as i've gotten older and having worked in a nursing home for 3 years, I have a better understanding of what human suffering really is. Now, i realize this is cherry picking, but being old with a degenerative disease or something, living in complete physical agony every day and having nothing to look forward to but more pain and idignity, I can understand that, even sympathize that. But a 16 year old kid hanging himself over a girl or whatever, it's completely different.
And Saerules your poker analogy is inaccurate. The great thing about poker is that no matter how badly you get your ass kicked one day, you can come back the next and win it all back. A better analogy would be giving up playing poker altogether forever because you were beaten. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem in most cases, and that is what I don't understand. There are instances where death is a more dignified end, but taking your life because you are depressed? Once you die, you are gone forever, girls will come and go, problems will come and go, unless you are faced with a lifelong problem, suicide seems a bit like overkill
And Saerules your poker analogy is inaccurate. The great thing about poker is that no matter how badly you get your ass kicked one day, you can come back the next and win it all back. A better analogy would be giving up playing poker altogether forever because you were beaten. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem in most cases, and that is what I don't understand. There are instances where death is a more dignified end, but taking your life because you are depressed? Once you die, you are gone forever, girls will come and go, problems will come and go, unless you are faced with a lifelong problem, suicide seems a bit like overkill
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
