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Do you think suicide is selfish?
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I personally don't obviously they are in a great deal of pain in some sort of way.  you?
is suicide selfish?
You may choose only one


Votes accepted from 11/18/10 02:31 PM until the end of time

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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What does STAL mean?


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Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: bigmike7104]
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no


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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Personally, I think suicide is extremely selfish. I might be biased because I've been through a loss in that way. It is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. All issues someone has can be helped. The only thing it does is hurt the people that care about you IMO


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Blight]
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Yes it is very selfish in most cases, but if you are living a pointless life with no hope like being an inmate in SUPERMAX or dying of some sort of super painful debilitating disease than it's an option IMHO


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"Love one another." "To Love is to know me." "Love is the Law, Love under Will." "In Compassion, all sorrows end." Regardless of the Master, the message is the same- Choose love and you shall live, Choose Fear and you shall die. Help bring peace to this Earth: Love one another, and serve others before yourself.

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Eywa_devotee]
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Annihilation is a beautiful thing. :suicide:


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Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. 

"Chat your fraff
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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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Emile Durkheim once published a very interesting book on suicide and its cultural foundations.  He identified four different types of suicide:

1.  Egoistic:  These suicides come from a breakdown of social integration, where an individual feels increasingly isolated from others.  This occurs most often in more individualistic societies(like ours).

2.  Altruistic:  This occurs in more integrated, collectivist societies.  Suicide, Durkheim found, is much more rare in such societies.  However, one exception is when an individual is socially expected to commit suicide(think seppuku).

3.  Anomic:  This occurs in societies where there is a breakdown of moral regulation, and legitimate aspirations are ill-defined, leading to a sense of meaninglessness.

4.  Fatalistic  This occurs in overly oppressive societies, where death is considered preferable to living in such a society.  Suicides in prison would be a good example.


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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I think it depends on whether or not there are people in your life that care about you.


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Poid]
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it is selfish of them to expect you to continue living when you proved you don't want to by committing suicide :tongue2:


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: andrewss]
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I don't think it's really selfish, they just don't want to be hurt. It would be selfish if your death wouldn't bother them, and they still wanted you to be living a life of suffering.


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Poid]
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Poid said:
I don't think it's really selfish, they just don't want to be hurt. It would be selfish if your death wouldn't bother them, and they still wanted you to be living a life of suffering.


I guess I just don't like the word selfish used in cases of suicide... seems like :blah:

Its an evaluative term that seems illogical for suicide... and even then what isn't selfish - unegotistic action!? :tongue2:


Only sort of case I can think of right now that would sorta resemble selfishness in suicide would be if say like paps on the prairie killed himself with the last bullet left in the gun and left his stranded family to be raped and murdered by Indians :lol:


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: andrewss]
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andrewss said:
Poid said:
I don't think it's really selfish, they just don't want to be hurt. It would be selfish if your death wouldn't bother them, and they still wanted you to be living a life of suffering.


I guess I just don't like the word selfish used in cases of suicide... seems like :blah:

Its an evaluative term that seems illogical for suicide... and even then what isn't selfish - unegotistic action!? :tongue2:

Yeah, everything we do is selfish, but to different degrees.


andrewss said:
Only sort of case I can think of right now that would sorta resemble selfishness in suicide would be if say like paps on the prairie killed himself with the last bullet left in the gun and left his stranded family to be raped and murdered by Indians :lol:

I think it would also be selfish to blow your head off with a shotgun in front of your kids.


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Poid]
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I think it would also be selfish to blow your head off with a shotgun in front of your kids.


Selfish to have the kids in the first place. Fact is, if anyone is that emotionally reliant it's going to totally crush them then that is their problem and their lot. This is why I don't get so attached to humans any more.


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Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. 

"Chat your fraff
Chat your fraff
Just chat your fraff
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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Grapefruit]
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Grapefruit said:
Quote:
I think it would also be selfish to blow your head off with a shotgun in front of your kids.


Selfish to have the kids in the first place.

Why is that?


Grapefruit said:
Fact is, if anyone is that emotionally reliant it's going to totally crush them then that is their problem and their lot.

That doesn't sound selfish to you? :lol:


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Poid] * 1
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Why is that?


I've never met someone who wants to become a parent for the kid. Nope. It's always about them and their dreams of family. Inevitably it goes wrong a lot of the time and the kid has no say.

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That doesn't sound selfish to you? 


No, it sounds realistic. Moreover, it's sound advice. Anything could happen so you need to be prepared for the truth of impermenance.


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Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. 

"Chat your fraff
Chat your fraff
Just chat your fraff
Chat your fraff"

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Grapefruit]
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Grapefruit said:
Quote:
Why is that?


I've never met someone who wants to become a parent for the kid.

What relevance does that have?


Grapefruit said:
Nope. It's always about them and their dreams of family. Inevitably it goes wrong a lot of the time and the kid has no say.

This doesn't prove that having kids is necessarily selfish.


Grapefruit said:
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That doesn't sound selfish to you? 


No, it sounds realistic.

Being selfish and being realistic are mutually exclusive? :confused:


Grapefruit said:
Moreover, it's sound advice. Anything could happen so you need to be prepared for the truth of impermenance.

And you think a child will be able to bear the death of his/her parent as easily as an adult would? :wtf:


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Poid]
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This doesn't prove that having kids is necessarily selfish.


It would be very hard for me to see any reason to have a kid that wasn't selfish. He doesn't exist yet so there's nothing to be selfless about.

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Being selfish and being realistic are mutually exclusive?


True, you're right. I guess it is selfish and I'm just saying it's not a bad thing. You're not responsible for someone else because you didn't bring them into being.

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And you think a child will be able to bear the death of his/her parent as easily as an adult would? 


I do think it's a mean spirited thing to abandon a child as it's clear they need the emotional support and you put them in that position.


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Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. 

"Chat your fraff
Chat your fraff
Just chat your fraff
Chat your fraff"

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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: bigmike7104]
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bigmike7104 said:
What does STAL mean?


:lol: newbie.  J/K  It means Sir Tokes A Lot.


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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suicide is what curt cobaine sang about and shit

but really you should become famous or something before committing suicide

there is no reason not to sell out


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Re: Do you think suicide is selfish? [Re: Cherk]
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It's more selfish to make assumptions about other people that you don't know. There's no way to know for sure what someone is going through and any of you could find yourselves thinking of suicide someday depending on how your circumstances change. I bet a lot of people that resort to suicide once thought they would never let themselves get that low.


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