re: How bad can it possibly be? How can someone with their whole life ahead of them

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My father told me a long time ago that taking your own life is the most selfish and cowardly thing a man can ever do.

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Your father seems like he was very good at parroting shite he'd heard before but not really thinking about it. Selfish kind of makes sense, but cowardly is just asinine. Someone who takes their own life faces the greatest unknown humans have, the deepest fear that we face from the time we become self-aware, and they face it willingly!! While most of us try to spend our days not thinking about death, they weigh the consequences and choose it as a better option over what they know. That's the opposite of cowardice. Those who call it cowardly are just trying to marginalize a decision that they can't wrap their heads around.