I think suicide is exceptionally selfish as it implies that your life is wholly your own, but its not true, society has expectations on everyone that we must fulfill. Go to school, get a job, get a wife, have kids, rinse and repeat. Somewhere along the line society stopped being conducive to genuine relationships and became about financials and things. but outside of your basic expectations, your life is your own, to do as you wish. Want to make bad choices, make them all. Your choices, relationships, and luck were supposed to be determining factors in your success. We're supposed to be a cog in society, every gear meshes with others and we do things, buy things, but the society is supposed to reward us for participation. Where are my rewards? It's been 10 years... Somewhere it feels like you missed the train, one wrong choice, and you can't get back what you didn't know you lost. We're still under the traditional societal expectations but with narrowing chances of completing them successfully, and they wonder why people are looking for ways out.
"Well the only disease I've got is "Modern Life," a schnutbusting gauntlet of inefficiency and misery that's one long parade of let-downs, put-downs, trickle downs, shutouts, freeze outs, sell-outs, numb nuts, nincompoops and nimrods, all making every day as much fun as waxing a flaming Pontiac with your tongue..."
"...where even if you do luck into the possibility of some fleeting pleasure" [ there's always some moralizing holier than thou individual ready to shut it down, and proudly and loudly declare that X, Y, Z, and J are immoral, not good, something or other. And against the rules for some vapid reason or other that usually equates to them not liking that you are having fun].
Life is meant to be enjoyed, experienced, and you are meant to get out there. Again, something broke and caused isolation. In my case its a lack of places to go to, combined with a lack of people to go to these places with, and a general dissatisfaction with the current situation but no real way to fix it. I am home all the time watching time slip through my fingers. Every day is a cycle and not meeting my basic societal obligations makes me look like a loser and a jackass in front of everyone. Why don't you have X, Y, Z pang? Fuck off.
I think that the suicidal should provide data on why they feel that way, but to go as far as censoring their sites is the wrong solution. Its the lets hide the problem and pretend it doesn't exist solution which has worked out horrendously each time it's been tried. It would also encourage them to go underground to a discord, or tor, or wherever to continue their downward spiral. Then they should be supported and given connections to the real world (how? I don't know), and if they truly do decide to do so they should have the right to decide.
Lastly, those ghouls who are encouraging them to do so should be incarcerated or at the very least watched.
It's not just you, our society as a whole is sick and people and people are doing something about it:
HHS should borrow a page from Rudolf Virchow, the founder of social medicine, and recognize that "disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions."
www.statnews.com
The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.
www.newyorker.com
