Suicide: Deliverance or The Dark Side of Dying?

I'm sure, but perhaps I should have qualified: I'm talking about being in extreme physical pain, not a psychological problem. I know that to most people discussing suicide they would be the same, but to me they're like night and day.
I'm not for suicide. Living' EVERY MOMENT of every day in horrific pain, and choosing suicide, I can understand. And it's not only "physical" pain that can drive one to the point of mind-numbing desperate need for relief of it when the only solution would be death.
 

That's an interesting point. I think it's because most people see animals as beneath humans, as being somehow deserving of less consideration. To them, the taking of an animal's life is in no way equal to the taking of a human life, because everyone KNOWS humans are worth more. :rolleyes:
In my opinion humans are not worth more. I told my wife if our (meanwhile deceased) cat and I would need an extremely expensive surgery at the same time to use the money for our cat.
 

In my opinion humans are not worth more. I told my wife if our (meanwhile deceased) cat and I would need an extremely expensive surgery at the same time to use the money for our cat.
That's interesting. I feel somewhat the same. I've already had a good number of years, so no desire to hang onto life indefinitely by undergoing extensive surgeries, chemo, etc. - I've known several older people who did all that only to go through a lengthy, painful recovery, with complications afterward, or died within weeks or months after the procedures anyway.
 
I still think that ACCEPTANCE of ALL bad things, which happen to us, is the best approach. I have had some bad pain moments from my arthritis but I have found that playing the computer game, "Civilization VI," removes the pain by DISTRACTION! I've made it to 90 with horrific pain at times but just start that game and all the pain disappears. Civilization VII has some bad bugs so stay with Civilization VI.

In the end EVERY HUMAN BEING dies and most die with terrible pain and impairment. Our species is plagued by that kind of ending. The only species, which never dies or suffers, is the JELLYFISH. It appears that that species is far more advanced in coping with death since they never die. We poor humans ALWAYS die in the end with terrible pain and impairment.
 


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