re: #54 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

It is a selfish thing to do. Lots of us keep going because suicide would shift our pain to loved ones.

I’ll refrain from using hurtful demeaning language in response to this. But this is fucking wrong, goddamn it. This made me angry. I’ll let someone else be more articulate.

Suicide is not selfish. Suicide is, normally, death caused by the illness of depression. It is the final symptom. A final collapse under unbearable weight. Suicide is a tragedy. If you have never been close to that edge try not to judge what you can’t understand.

— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) June 8, 2018

You don’t help people stay alive by shaming people who have died by suicide. You simply encourage the kind of silence and stigma that stops people getting help. The idea that mental illness is a ‘choice’, a result of your own free will. Illness is illness. Health is health.

— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) June 8, 2018