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menalawyerguy wrote:kyro7 wrote:I guess because I haven't experienced the extent of things when I hear someone has committed suicide who has kids it makes me very very angry.
Anger is justified. But be angry at the disease, not the person. Think about how sick somebody must be to take his own life when he has so much to live for. That person is obviously not thinking rationally. They're a victim too; they lost their life. It's easy to blame the victim because we don't fully understand mental illness the way we do physical illness. We always assume people are responsible for their actions. We can see what cancer does, for example, and unless the cancer was caused by excessive drinking or something like that, we don't blame the person, we blame the disease. It should be no different with mental illness. It's just that mental illness is not viewed by the majority of the public as a legitimate form of illness. Most people just think it's weakness on the part of the sufferer.
I think you're right actually. For someone like Gary Speed to commit suicide is obviously a form of depression which is at the end of the day a mental illness, no rationally thinking person in his posistion would randomly take their own life. Didn't really think through the extent of somebody committing suicide.
A person doesn't have every right to kill themselves if they're not enjoying life, where did you get that from? The right to die only pertains to serious terminal illnesses as far as I'm aware.
