At least something that we can agree on here (I would assume, anyway) is that no matter one's feelings or stances on the morality or legality of suicide, the worst way to talk about it especially to those suffering from mental distress or illness to the point where suicide seems viable, is to attach some guilt-tripped threat veiled in compassion about how God owns your body and soul or that it would be a sin against him, that could make you wind up in hell.
The way to help someone think their way out of suicide isn't to make the afterlife seem so much worse to scare them out of it, it's to make their life now worth living. It's something that I constantly see theists of all stripes do and it pisses me right the fuck off.
The way to help someone think their way out of suicide isn't to make the afterlife seem so much worse to scare them out of it, it's to make their life now worth living. It's something that I constantly see theists of all stripes do and it pisses me right the fuck off.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
