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Originally Posted by Ducay
And I totally accept this and all the other retorts to my posts.
When I said "I don't understand how...", I literally do not understand, it blows my mind. Like I mentioned, obviously this was her "only" option and was rational at the time, but me, mentally, I just can't get there to comprehend how it at all makes sense.
I lost a buddy to suicide in Grade 5 and ever since Ive never been able to wrap my mind around what could be so bad for a well-off elementary kid to do such a thing.
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Suicide is not a matter of choice. The profound depression that motivates most suicides is a disease. This disease causes a level of pain so profound that it twists one’s ability to assess risk, to make good choices, to maintain a sense of future possibilities. When people act out of this depression, they are not exercising free choice. They are falling victim to a disease. This disease is not about logic or self interest. It is about an immediate desire to be dead