Dhara
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True, but not everyone in that state feels it's a temporary problem.Nice sound bite, but it's a bit more complex than that for many people.This morning I intervened to prevent a friend of ours committing suicide. To shorten long complicated story, we and paramedics all ended up at the hospital.
The friend of ours, was shouting all sorts of abuse at us and the paramedics and then the nurses at hospital for having no right to intervene when they wanted to commit suicide and that it's their right to kill themselves if they want to.
I agree that everyone has right to self-determination and that it's your life, if you want to end it that's your right to do so.
However, this belief of mine went out of window, as I just didn't want a friend to kill themselves, because I'd never forgive myself for having NOT intervened and well I'd miss them.
So I feel like crap now, maybe I should have let them go, I don't know.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem
I agree...but it reflects the permanence of the solution while the problem may be short lived