While watching a youtube video in which you talked about Nirvana's 'In Utero', your comments on Cobain's death hit a contentious subject for me. When people accuse those who've committed suicide of being selfish, they alienate the already alienated– the ones who are still living but think day in and day out that they would rather not exist than live in the current and possibly or even likely lasting conditions of their lives.
Whenever someone labels suicide as selfish, I always wish I could ask them the following:
Do you believe that suicide is always selfish?
What if the individual has no children?
Is it not more selfish of others to expect someone to continue to endure a pain greater than the pain they'd experience from the person's death?
Do you believe that suicide can ever be rational?
What if someone has a chronic or terminal disease?
Is anything always better than nothing?
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Kevin Devine // Favourite Albums (Ep. 09): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAR09B_X5rw
While watching a youtube video in which you talked about Nirvana's 'In Utero', your comments on Cobain's death hit a contentious subject for me. When people accuse those who've committed suicide of being selfish, they alienate the already alienated– the ones who are still living but think day in and day out that they would rather not exist than live in the current and possibly or even likely lasting conditions of their lives.
Whenever someone labels suicide as selfish, I always wish I could ask them the following:
Do you believe that suicide is always selfish? What if the individual has no children? Is it not more selfish of others to expect someone to continue to endure a pain greater than the pain they'd experience from the person's death? Do you believe that suicide can ever be rational? What if someone has a chronic or terminal disease? Is anything always better than nothing?
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