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Originally Posted by 4X4
I was going to dissect the different causes suicide has on different people but didn't. Now I think I better clarify that killing yourself already hurts your family and friends. Why do you need to spread that pain into another circle of family and friends by involving someone else?
Rational mind. I heard you. I guess I just have no idea how a person can be that far out of their mind.
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And having never been there, you probably can't truly appreciate just how lucky you are that you have never been that far "out of your mind".
It is a completely warped view of the world, there is no doubt. In my case, I had convinced myself that I was burden on my family, and they'd would be better off without me. I think a lot of people in that position think the same. Looking back eleven years later, I can see how irrational it was, but in the moment? That line gets blurred beyond recognition.
It is definitely easy to look at this case, and question why someone would not only (potentially) try to take their life, but to do so in such a way that would affect so many others. It's easy to call it self-centred, and perhaps it really is. But when you are lost in the pain of the moment, you really don't consider how others view you. Rather, you may end up convincing yourself that even those strangers would look at you and believe they would be better off if you were gone.
Of course, no-one can know what was going through her head right now. Maybe there was a lot of selfishness involved with a thought of "If I am going to go anyway, I might as well make myself famous on the way out." A way to be remembered, perhaps, even if for all the wrong reasons.
Either way, I echo what others said earlier: hopefully she can recover fully, and find a means to a better life.