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el-Jimmeister — Suicide Isn't Cowardly
Published: 2013-02-08 10:44:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 17703; Favourites: 893; Downloads: 60
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Another quote by Ashley Purdy, and someone suggested that I make this into a stamp. He seems to be quite wise for his age.While I am still of the stand that suicide is not the best solution to your problems, it is even more cowardly to push people over the edge. Often, it is these people whose lives are so empty that they look to inflicting sufferings on others to fill that festering void.
In the end though, if you are feeling suicidal at all, lemme tell you this: (Most of the time,) it is up to you to prove them right or wrong if there are people who treat you so badly you want to end your life. When you are feeling down, always remind yourself that you are a fighter and a valiant adventurer making a journey through life, not someone who would let him/herself be defeated by problems. Find a way to motivate yourself to keep carrying on. I'm sure that there is at least one thing out there for you to hold on to. Count your blessings, too. Do your best, and you will most likely succeed in overcoming your suicidal tendencies. If you really need to, get a therapist.
Also, here is what Ashley himself has to say on suicide:
"Well, I actually have a lot of personal experience with it, so I have more to say on the topic than I can type. Some background, I’ve had a couple close friends in my life commit suicide, self inflicted and over dosing on drugs. I’ve also had close family members commit suicide as well.
In relation to my fans, I don’t understand the need to self harm ones self. Cutting is a foreign thing to me only because you’re vandalizing your own body that will leave scars on your skin for life. You definitely have to love yourself and respect yourself first. I get depression and the thoughts of feeling suicidal, but my suggestion would be.. Don’t be afraid to talk to someone.. anyone. I know things seem bad in the moment, but those moments pass, and you’ll be surprised when you reach out to someone how many you will find that honestly give a damn. Never do something to yourself that you can’t take back because its never too late. As I said, time passes and things get better. Try and be strong, but most importantly, Love Yourself, despite what anyone else says or thinks. Take pride in who you are.. Its your life, it can be anything you want. Only surround yourself with things and people that make you happy and your life worth living. The best thing would be to stay occupied, have a hobby, do something everyday you enjoy that doesn’t make life seem so bad."
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I cannot believe there are people who seriously say something so distasteful.
I have no respect for any kind of heartless jerks who mistreating such a horrible issue.
And yes, that’s including the comment section too! Shame at you, people!
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Anyone who says suicide is for cowards deserves a huge backhand slap to the face.
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They deserve a nosebleed.
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can't we just agree that we probably should avoid people killing themselves?
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I probably shouldn't be on this site since I'm not really welcome here by the current community, but I've attempted suicide about 5 times, though everyone thinks I'm faking except my family which usually only makes the feeling of wanting to end my life worse because I know it ruined my reputation. That's why I think I'll just keep it to myself from now on.
This site isn't really what it used to be. I never had problems with other users up until this year. Hopefully that will change soon. I feel much safer off site now.
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If I eventually stopped using Discord, was mainly because of some people directly telling me they'll kill themselves so badly, even if I knew they would be lying. It was just a bunch of rabid followers that misunderstand some emotional problem I have but don't know what it is.
I read the description: I've felt in a very similar manner in recent months. Even if I haven't reached those suicidal grades (hope I don't...)...
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People who say it is cowardly and selfish make me want to puke my intestines out
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Simple.
Suicide is an act of humane weakness that results in one's own choice to take ones own life without the consideration or compassion of those that care and share with them a relationship, who, despite almost always being ignorant of the suffering of the person in question will more than not, render all assistance to assist the person in question.
However, the person in question will, nearly almost always refuse to disclose the issues that burden them and instead take a course of action that will lead to their demise.
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What if the person committing suicide doesn't have anyone to care for them? What if they are hated by everyone? I was and still am suicidal and I do talk about why I want to die to people. The reason I haven't exited this life yet is because I have people I care about that would be sad if I left. But not everyone has someone to love or to be loved by.
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There is always someone to care. There are many charities, out reach programs, phone centers to contact that there is no excuse to say one is truly alone; people will even prevent an act of suicide if they witness it on the street. No excuses.
No one is hated by everyone. Unless you're Osama Bin Laden, and even he has people who would attempt to help him.
So the reason why you have not committed suicide is actually selfish in nature.
You're not holding back for yourself, you're holding back for them, which means the burden of keeping you here is on them. That is an unfair and selfish burden.
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The meaning of selfish is "(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure."
I'm not holding back because I'm selfish
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To you, it's being selfless, but you're relying upon others, rather than creating your own purposes in life and relying upon your self. Independence is equally as important as reliability.
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I have given myself purposes but they have all failed due to me making terrible decisions.
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To anyone who says suicide is selfish (even though this may be another point from the stamp), it's their life, not yours. It's not wrong to suffer because someone you love is gone, but to say it's selfish is almost victim blaming. I say it's selfish to force someone to live in suffer while that isn't your life.
No it's not wrong to help someone but calling it selfish IS selfish.
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Suicide is not just cowardly, it's selfish.
No one, not a single soul in existence should have to bear the pain of grief for an act that was solely about self.
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it's their life, not yours. It's not wrong to suffer because someone you love is gone, but to say it's selfish is almost victim blaming. I say it's selfish to force someone to live in suffer while that isn't your life.
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Live comes with duty and responsibility. What is more neglectful and irresponsible than to force sadness and grief upon another human being, even worse, a loved one?
Life has suffering, it hurts and can be excruciating, it can be incredibly difficult and seemingly impossible, but that is no excuse to inflict suffering upon another.
No one, not a single person whom has committed suicide has been met with love and respect from the people who loved them. No one has ever, ever understood or been at peace with the suicide of a loved one.
This is what people say who haven't lost someone they loved to suicide. As someone who has, would you like to know what it feels like? Even a year later, how much it hurts and how badly you miss them and how you wish you could have been there to help them and how you'd lay your life don for them at a moments notice to save them and how you would fight their demons for them?
Do you really, honestly believe your view point is right?
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No one asked to live.
So you can stop pretending as if it was something they choose for themselves.
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So then who made them do it? Who pushed them? Who forced them? Who made the final choice?
I find your lack of compassion utterly insensitive.
I'm pretending? I am the one who'd pretending? Who did you lose to suicide? I lost A friend, My friend Tori lost her brother; and you're going tp put this back on us, the ones who grieved and lost people we love? Who the hell do you think you are?
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LOL, you're probably a bully yourself...
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You think I'm a bully because I'm Pro-Life and anti-suicide?
A bully because I raise the issue of the people who suffer as a consequence by the person who committed the act..?
Isn't that as anti-bully as it comes..?
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Cuz you're calling them selfish and cowardly... That can just make them feel worse.
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They're dead..
Their actions are selfish as was their intentions.
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Okay, maybe they were having a horrible life... You're kinda selfish for demonizing these people... You wanna know what I think is ACTUALLY selfish? Bullying others to make yourself look funny or cool, then doing to an extent where the person/people you're bullying want to end their lives. 
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I am not demonizing anyone and that's not a fair reference to them or to me.
Consider this: Everyone who commits suicide leaves someone/s behind; and how about them? How about their loss?
If someone I knew committed suicide, I would still consider it selfish because it would cause ME emotional suffering.
Well if you're not talking about me, please be detailed in whom you are referencing; and I wholly agree with you, it really is selfish.
But, my point still stands, it's a selfish act that cannot be undone nor forgiven, nor does it affect only the person who committed the act.
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"If someone I knew committed suicide, I would still consider it selfish because it would cause ME emotional suffering."
But forcing someone to live to suffer isn't?
It's their life, to take natural rights away from others for your emotional self sounds like selfish. Saying the other way is like saying having your freedom is selfish because it upsets others.
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The hypocrisy doesn't exist in this; Suicide brings absolutely no beneficial result.
In fact, it costs others financially and emotionally; these rights though apply to self bring repercussions upon the associates and personal relationships of the person who commits suicide.
Suicide is not a natural right, nor is it natural, all organisms have the innate characteristic of survival, not suicide; try holding your breathe until you become asphyxiated, it's impossible, your body will not let you.
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It might to the person who committed it, and regardless I don't see that as a reason to say it's "selfish".
Intelligent is natural and if people want to use it to their body even if it's bad for the body, it's still a right. I mean it's not good directly for the body but it's still their body. Natural or not.
Note: I suggest anyone to not commit suicide but I wanted to make a point.
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Until you have been in the place of someone who's lost someone to suicide, you cannot imagine it anymore than what you currently know.
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