How do I explain this and not sound to crss and callous.
Let's try this. I have no problem with assisted suicide. If it is because of medical reasons and the person is incapacitated I have no problem with it as long as there is NO doubt this is what the person would have wanted. Documents, a recording, something.....If not I feel no person has the RIGHT to choose this fate for someone else.
No if a person wants assistance to kill themselves because girlfriend leaving them, family problems, failed surgery (plastic) or slew of other selfiush reasons, Fine. This individual is selfish to begin with and obviously does not care enough about those that depend on them or society. Call it natural selection, call it mean, but if a person can't handle the things the najority of people in life handle regularly I want nothing to do with them. They become a drain on those surrounding them or society. I believe depression is contagious, if you are around a miserable person you will become miserable and so on and so forth. If the person is so miserable they no longer wish to live, who am I to make them survive? Sure medicine may help them, and I feel they should have to go this route first, but even after trying medicine they still feel this way, then that is that.
I have had friends commit suicide. I look at them as selfish for what they have done to their families and those they leave behind. But these people have moved on, and most of the time their lives become easier. They no longer have the drain and no longer hve the fear of what the person may do to themselves, thus their lives became easier in the long run.
One of my best friends did this. I hated him for the longest time over it because I saw it as stupid (over a girl). But he went 2 years depressed before hand. Tried medicine and nothing fixed it. We spent so much time trying to keep him cheered up so much, that everything became about my friend. After his death, time passed, all of us moved on. We think about him, but our lives did become easier, we no longer had a huge burden of concern.
This is harsh I know, but in the end, I think it can be better for all involved.......from a non religious aspect.....
Would I ever do it, no. No matter how much pain I am in I have people and friends that depend on me and my purpose is to make everyone better around me. So, if I am on my death bed, with no hope, and in paiun. I will look my wife in the eye, tell her I love her, hug my kids and will accept what fate/God throws my way. And show a value foprgotten in this world to my family and friends. Strength. That no matter what is thrown your way, you stare it down, fight it, and never give up........
