This title seems like a summary of a substantial amount about suicide. It is simple and feels like truth, certainly more truth than it’s a spurious, irrelevant manifestation of a brain impairment as is the central suicide principle and understanding in biomedical psychiatry.
If you see the pain then you’re closer to the reality of suicidal thoughts. It’s also easier to accept suicide because no one wants someone else in pain, in torture. Attacking social determinants becomes the priority and acceptance of suicide central to the principle of least harms. Suicidal suffering is simply a suffering too great and the only mental health state I’d say shouldn’t exist with a sense of certainty. Torture in all its forms is unacceptable and there must be the sense to end immitigable pain the hard way by legalisation of suicide. Decriminalisation is simply unacceptable because allowing torture to happen is unacceptable.
The subjectivity of unbearable pain is high but needs no further evidence than meeting the criteria where suicide is perceived as the solution for the individual. This is significant pain and a result of pain. The severity is the tragedy that any human being is ever driven to want to end their life or stop existing. It is a profoundly awful mental state I know better than anyone should but if you’ve not lived years of a life you don’t want to live a day longer – if you want death more than life – it might seem like feeling suicidal isn’t the worst thing a human can experience. The unique, personalised suffering which drives a conscious being to want to cease its consciousness, to escape because survival is no longer possible, to cast the most damaging assertion of the inequity of the modern day by choosing self death to leave it all behind. It is the product of a murderous and torturous process.
No one should feel it and no one should have to live through it if they choose not to.
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