Comment by mrburton
5 days ago
To all those reading this thread, suicide isn't the answer. I know you've heard this and it's not special coming from me.
We all heard it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem and so many other quotes. I've lost a lot of people growing up to suicide and the impact it has on those who continue to live on that you love is traumatic.
The man who raised me like I was his son told my mother that he would never commit suicide. He had stage 4 cancer that eventually took his life on my 17th birthday. His reason for enduring through the pain was to teach me that suicide is never the answer because it hurts all those around you.
Although he passed away on my 17th birthday of his illness, he forever changed my life in so many ways. Each and every day I aim to be a better man because of how he loved me.
Please take a moment to utilize this time you have to change those around you. You don't need to create a massive company, be a CEO, have a career people admire, etc.. all you need to do is be someone that inspires others to improve like John did for me.
What I really don't like is to hear people who aren't struggling with it, to call someone else's on-going struggle "a temporary problem".
Isn't that trivially true that all human problems are temporary?
I mean if you want to get all Nietzsche about it, then suicide is no longer a permanent solution.
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You really don't need to engage in the thread if it bothers you that much. Do keep in mind, maybe you're on the left side of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I enjoy hackernud3s's contributions and am glad that they are listening to the silent upvotes instead of whatever the fuck it is that you're on about.
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Which can be resumed as "you are a slave and you must live and suffer because if not, the master will be sad"
Perhaps suicide is sometime the only sane answer in an insane world; Perhaps one must actually be sane to commit suicide (which is why there are so few of them, in the end);
By the way, 2026 was the 30 year anniversary of his passing. I'm 47 years old and I still think of him almost daily.
That's a nice perspective, but sometimes life is just too much. Sometimes it is the solution
Yeah I feel like a prisoner. I can’t end MY life because others will get hurt ?
Who said you can't? What I'm saying is people who look at suicide clearly need help with perspective and support.
If people who feel like terminating their life, got help, I strongly believe there was be a large drop in suicide.
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You're (maybe) missing something and you know what it is but maybe you're afraid to ask. So tell me, what are you missing?
For me, it was some sort of acceptance from my parents. They never told me they were proud of me until I was close to doing it. Just happened to happen and put a new fresh wind into me.
You'll have elaborate on "life is just too much". That to me, opinion here, sounds like "I don't want to try". That's suitable for games, but I think life is something special.
There is no solution to life.
Memento et mori.
Don't rush it.
> You don't need to create a massive company, be a CEO, have a career people admire, etc..
I don’t give a fuck about any of that. I just wanted to code…
Likewise and this day an age you don't need much to do that.
Let them eat cake