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Is suicide a personal choice of an inevitable result of mental pain// distress

DaveAsperg

I am trying to understand the responses I've had about this as I see there are 2 differing opinions on this; some say that it is a personal choice and blame the person for making a bad choice,, others say that it's inevitable for some if pushed into a distressing, hopeless situation.

I feel that personal knowledge of a close friend or relative lost to suicide, would favour the latter opinion. What do you think?

As ASD people we don't easily let sleeping dogs lie and that is why I feel we can get obsessed with worrying about this.

Any comments, informed or not??

Parents

  • This is not personal - I could replace  'you' with 'a person'.

    It's always a personal decision - how you process whatever stimulus is down to you - no-one else has access to your mind or understands how you process things..   Some things bother some people but not others so it's a purely internal process.    Trying to blame others for how your brain works is not fair.

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  • This is not personal - I could replace  'you' with 'a person'.

    It's always a personal decision - how you process whatever stimulus is down to you - no-one else has access to your mind or understands how you process things..   Some things bother some people but not others so it's a purely internal process.    Trying to blame others for how your brain works is not fair.

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  • in reply to Plastic

    Well I certainly believe it's not a personal decision and I didn't realise how many thought otherwise. My personal view is that everyone will suicide if their life becomes sufficiently painful, distressing, hopeless, prolonged, burden on others .

    Interesting that you view your opinion as THE ONLY CORRECT one (so far).

    See what others say.............