I disagree with the idea that suicide is an individual decision. A person's parents have invested very much time and effort in raising the person. The government has provided schooling, healthcare and other services.
A self-centered teen will often declare "I didn't ASK to be born. I didn't want to go to stupid old school anyway. Why do I owe anything to anyone?" I disagree with this sentiment, because all those abstracts represent a real usage of resources: food, clean water, etc. as well as indirect damage, like the destruction of a small forest in order to make paper for the person's lifetime of reading and toiletries.
Nobody asked to be alive, that is true. Nevertheless, I think it's pretty shitty to dine and dash. If one's life is to be thrown away, why not spend a couple years planting trees, or working with needy kids or something? Why just flip a giant bird to the good that could be done if one wasn't such a selfish, childish prick?
A self-centered teen will often declare "I didn't ASK to be born. I didn't want to go to stupid old school anyway. Why do I owe anything to anyone?" I disagree with this sentiment, because all those abstracts represent a real usage of resources: food, clean water, etc. as well as indirect damage, like the destruction of a small forest in order to make paper for the person's lifetime of reading and toiletries.
Nobody asked to be alive, that is true. Nevertheless, I think it's pretty shitty to dine and dash. If one's life is to be thrown away, why not spend a couple years planting trees, or working with needy kids or something? Why just flip a giant bird to the good that could be done if one wasn't such a selfish, childish prick?
