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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
My good friend killed himself in May 2016.
I never got to see him before he did it, I had the chance but decided not to walk a couple of minutes to see him.
I hate it, it still bothers me. Not all the time but there are days it really picks away at me, and it ####ing hurts.
Suicide isn’t the same as medically assisted dying.
He left a lot of people empty and broken that day.
Maybe it would be different if he had said good bye and that he couldn’t go on, I don’t know.
I’ll never ####ing know.
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I know it's hard but I believe 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.