Should we prevent suicide attempts?

[Meneldil]

Contrary to belief there is someone who loves and cares about you. That person or persons will never understand why you did something so selfish.

Rubbish.
In my case, my father in law was being a burden on the family. My mum was the only one bringing money to the house, feeding him, me, my brother and our pets.
Not only that, but out of shame (as he couldn't pay anything despite promising to do it), he caused lots of issues (ie. "Yeah I paid that" while he never actually did it, causing the government/bank/water company to get mad at my mum).
He stole money to me and my back-then 14 years old brother, to actually pretend to be paying stuff and to be making us gifts.

We loved him, but he was driving us mad, and was putting my mother in a difficult position, and he perfectly knew it. Since he had nowhere to go and couldn't apparently solve his issues, his only left choice was actually to end his life.

I wouldn't call that selfish. He knew people loved him, but he knew he was harming those people, so he gave his life. I would describe his behavior as extremely selfless.

This whole "Oh woe is me" thing is a pile of bull. As is "no one understands" There is someone somewhere going through something much worse and there doing it with a smile on there face.

Once again, I call rubbish. You seem to be perceiving that suicide is some kind of fashionly behaviour, and that it concerns only some people ("teenagers", "emos" or however you wanna call them).

I admit that some people are thinking about suicide for completely pointless, irrelevant and ridiculous reasons (such as "I lost my Xbox"), but in these cases, I wouldn't take it seriously.
Some people on the other hand, have no friends, never enjoyed love, or at some point in their life felt deeply betrayed. Then I think they have a reason to commit suicide. Humans are social beings, and when we can't have any social relationship, why bothering about life? Whether you admit it or not, some people don't have anything left, or weight the pro and the con and decide that the cons are vastly overwhelming.
Why should people be glad to have working limbes and senses when they don't have anything else? All your talk about thanking god sounds like crap to me in that case.

[Strike For The South]

Rubbish.
In my case, my father in law was being a burden on the family. My mum was the only one bringing money to the house, feeding him, me, my brother and our pets.
Not only that, but out of shame (as he couldn't pay anything despite promising to do it), he caused lots of issues (ie. "Yeah I paid that" while he never actually did it, causing the government/bank/water company to get mad at my mum).
He stole money to me and my back-then 14 years old brother, to actually pretend to be paying stuff and to be making us gifts.

We loved him, but he was driving us mad, and was putting my mother in a difficult position, and he perfectly knew it. Since he had nowhere to go and couldn't apparently solve his issues, his only left choice was actually to end his life.

I wouldn't call that selfish. He knew people loved him, but he knew he was harming those people, so he gave his life. I would describe his behavior as extremely selfless.

While your father in laws situation is regrettable there is a million things he could've done besides killing himself. There are also a million things he could've done instead of steal from his family.

Once again, I call rubbish. You seem to be perceiving that suicide is some kind of fashionly behaviour, and that it concerns only some people ("teenagers", "emos" or however you wanna call them).

I admit that some people are thinking about suicide for completely pointless, irrelevant and ridiculous reasons (such as "I lost my Xbox"), but in these cases, I wouldn't take it seriously.
Some people on the other hand, have no friends, never enjoyed love, or at some point in their life felt deeply betrayed. Then I think they have a reason to commit suicide. Humans are social beings, and when we can't have any social relationship, why bothering about life? Whether you admit it or not, some people don't have anything left, or weight the pro and the con and decide that the cons are vastly overwhelming.
Why should people be glad to have working limbes and senses when they don't have anything else? All your talk about thanking god sounds like crap to me in that case.

Because there are people who would kill for working limbs and senses. There are people who would kill to have a roof over there head. People take these gifts like they are owed them when they are really not owed anything. Why you would throw that all away is quite frankly utterly stupid. Especially when people soldier on all there lives with none of those things.


Everyone at some point gets betrayed or loses someone they love. You can't just quit, Same goes for someone who has never been loved. Often times the people who commit suicide are young, love will come to them. At times one must go through trials and tribulations, that's part of life.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Because there are people who would kill for working limbs and senses. There are people who would kill to have a roof over there head. People take these gifts like they are owed them when they are really not owed anything. Why you would throw that all away is quite frankly utterly stupid. Especially when people soldier on all there lives with none of those things.

Having limbs and shelter are not reasons to live for, they are there to sustain life. While its tragic that some people lack these basic necessities, I don't see why we should frown upon people for wanting to end their lives when its all they've got. If you feel worthless, then you think that the food you eat to keep your limbs functioning is a waste of resources, even the air you breathe.

To want to live, your life has to have some sort of purpose or goal. The problem with suicide cases is that they don't have this, or feel that it is unattainable, even if it's not in reality.