• Slotos@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    Giving the life the middle finger is the ultimate expression of freedom.

    Some people don’t care to continue living, some people face a mental decline that will destroy the lives of their loved ones, some are in constant pain, the list goes on.

    Forcing them to keep on living is torture. Unfortunately some people are incapable of compassion and stick to medieval concepts of propriety devised to keep the serfs working.

    It might be surprising to you, but there’s no beauty in suffering.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Giving the life the middle finger is the ultimate expression of freedom.

      Before I said that something could pass as ironic edgelord humor 20 years ago on 4chan, but in this case, I think this is so edgy even the channers would make fun of it.

      Killing yourself is the ultimate expression of freedom? Shouldn’t you be banned for saying that? When did it become acceptable to glamorize and encourage suicide?

      Suicide isn’t “the ultimate expression of freedom” it’s the complete and total renunciation of freedom. Dead bodies aren’t free to do anything except rot.

    • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’m with you 100%. No one consents to being born, and it should be every human’s right to decide when they’ve had enough and consent to checking out of life.

      We put down animals because they’re suffering, it’s seen as a mercy, yet when it comes to humans? Oh no, go through your fifth round of chemo, take two shots of morphine every day, exist in nothing but physical pain because wanting to die is somehow… Wrong?

      I’ve suffered from depression the majority of my life, and I’ve even asked my therapist: what is so wrong, so bad, about wanting to die? We live in a society where the majority of wealth is held by very few, we’re watching governments across the world fall to fascism, people’s rights are being stripped away left and right, and yet the majority of the population believes “Well, you have XYZ, so you should be grateful! You have so much to live for!”

      This is not a pro-suicide comment, either, to be clear. If you are suffering, please reach out to friends/family, or even better, a mental health professional if that is an option for you. Death is a permanent solution to what can be a temporary problem. But if an individual of sound mind and body wants to consent, for whatever reason, to no longer wanting to play this torture we call life, I believe they should 100% have the right to do so, and we should be glad we as a society have come so far as to extend the same mercy to human beings that we provide to pets.