RE: Why the instinct to survive?
November 9, 2014 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2014 at 11:00 pm by bennyboy.)
I assume this has already been said, but I don't want to read 5 pages of sad lamentations to say it again.
While there are plenty of philosophical reasons to choose death, or not to see the sustenance of life as objectively important, it's clearly not a normal way of thinking. It's abnormal, and if it extends it either means there is something intrinsically wrong with her life (she's gay living in a pastor's family or something), or there is something wrong with her brain functioning. Trying to convince her that life is worth living if her brain is constantly punishing her existence will be totally hopeless-- she needs meds, and that's pretty much that. And if her meds don't work, she needs drugs. And if she won't take any of them, then you have to have her committed.
While there are plenty of philosophical reasons to choose death, or not to see the sustenance of life as objectively important, it's clearly not a normal way of thinking. It's abnormal, and if it extends it either means there is something intrinsically wrong with her life (she's gay living in a pastor's family or something), or there is something wrong with her brain functioning. Trying to convince her that life is worth living if her brain is constantly punishing her existence will be totally hopeless-- she needs meds, and that's pretty much that. And if her meds don't work, she needs drugs. And if she won't take any of them, then you have to have her committed.
