I know all too well the harm it can do. My daughter's boyfriend blew his brains out all over my daughter a few years ago. She is still having problems with that. I have no problem with him killing himself. Just the way he went about it.
I never ask or expect anyone to agree with me. All I would want is if I choose to end my life today is for others to stay out of my way and not try to "save" me. As for being "defensive", that probably comes from being "guilt tripped" into taking cancer treatments years ago. On top of being so sick everyone kept telling me "you don't have a right to just die". I still wish I had never took any. I did stop before the doctors wanted me to stop. And was accused of "committing suicide" just by the act of refusing more treatment.
Agreed, and understandably so too. Treatments are really expensive and they can bankrupt families. Think some decide not to do the treatments for financial reasons, and for the sake of their families.
I had a million dollar policy from my job. But it is tough to go have chemicals too nasty to use in warfare shot directly into your veins. I was sicker and weaker after every "treatment". You even have to sign paperwork that you know this could kill you. You go from just feeling bad to being lead to the bathroom for a week to ten days. The last time I went I sat on my bed with my pistol and wondered if I could take another one. That was the last one for me. I lost 45% of the movement in one arm and 48% in the other. It took 6 months of physical therapy to straighten out my arms. So I never got well and I have not died yet. I am in a place most people would not enjoy. But I know a lot about me. That crap burned me like bacon in in a hot pan. They never did say what that stuff soes to the brain.
I think that would have been much better. I was really mad about how he did it. But I am still grateful he did not take my daughter with him. So many people think they have to wipe out others on their way out.
Wow! That is tremendously brave. Not sure I would have been able to survive through all of that. I think when it gets to that stage, one should really have a choice to make life decisions, this has to be suffering at its most acute?
Not brave at all my friend. Just scrambling around trying to do the best I could at the time. It was an almost surreal feeling at the time.
I don't want to even think about changing anyone's religion. I have enough problems trying to deal with my own.:unsure:
What are you defining as self-harm here? The OP writes about things including drug-use, in which case I think the argument can be made that alcohol use is also self-harm. I generally agree with the OP though- if we have a right to one thing, it is ourselves and we should be able to do as we please with it.
I have been ready to die for years. The only reason I am not dead is I don't want my wife in a nursing home and my dogs in the pound. But I claim my life as my own. And feel free to do with it as I decide.
