No, TC is indicating that stress/strife doesn't necessarily correlate with how your life is perceived as good or bad.
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It is somewhat ironic that there is this motivation necessary to gather the wherewithal to commit suicide. However, what about those that are simply lazier than their suicidal urge. It's not that they want to live, they just can't work up the energy in order to end it. That's major depression... Too depressed to even move to kill yourself.
Remember "Sloth" from the movie Se7en?
"Sacrifice and Suicide have entirely different motivations."
That's exactly my point. The former is an act of strength, a gift given by a more or less balanced individual to correct an appalling situation. Sacrifice of this magnitude is ennobling bc it frees others from suffering. Suicide, on the other hand, is an act of weakness.
Here's the moralizing. I know you socios hate this part :P
We have a responsibility to ourselves, to our families and to our communities to do the best we can with the cards we're dealt. Our lives are a gift. Throwing them away without good cause is almost as selfish as murder.
Taunting one's loved ones with idle death threats is disgusting. At least until it becomes apparent that the person making the threats won't and can't follow through. Then the act of threatening becomes a ridiculous parody.
"One's appreciation is entirely relative. Someone can have a worse life with less strife while another can have a better one with more. It's a matter of perception, not experience."
If one's perception does not allow the individual to appreciate that life is worth living, then the individual needs to adjust his/her perceptions by whatever means necessary. If medication and therapy help then that is the solution. Bitching and whining and disrupting other people's lives is...well... rude. Sin's parents are trying to earn the money required to pay for her therapy. From what I've read, they're also trying to teach her how to re-think w/e it is that's fucking with her head.
They only have so many hours in each day to do all of this and she's wasting their efforts like a gambling addict wastes money.
ffs. Get a life or die already.
I'd choose a similar execution for situation #1 that I mentioned in my OP.
I'd have to take some precautions to protect innocent bystanders, tho. I wouldn't want to infect anybody else with my hypothetical virus. I'd also do my best to not injure anybody else. I would only use my gun to scare people into calling the cops to shoot me down. I'd have a suicide note in my pocket with my will. I'd also inform one person that I trust (without giving away enough details for them to stop me) that shit is about to go down and to watch the news. I would also leave a copy of my will and suicide note at an easily accessible location like my apartment or my storage locker.
My kids would want an explanation.
"Sacrifice of this magnitude is ennobling bc it frees others from suffering. Suicide, on the other hand, is an act of weakness."
Does that really matter?
To some, they see the suicide as "freeing others from suffering", an expression of self-loathing.
"We have a responsibility to ourselves, to our families and to our communities to do the best we can with the cards we're dealt. Our lives are a gift."
"If one's perception does not allow the individual to appreciate that life is worth living, then the individual needs to adjust his/her perceptions by whatever means necessary."
Why? There's no reasons presented here, just the presentation of oppressive obligations in the form of baseless judgement calls.
"Taunting one's loved ones with idle death threats is disgusting."
That's all it can be if they lack the means of succeeding?
"From what I've read, they're also trying to teach her how to re-think w/e it is that's fucking with her head."
Did you read how they were doing it, and details about Sin's life in general?
"But there are a few extremely unlikely circumstances where I would kill myself.
1) HIV. Yucky yuck yuck and holy fuck. No way no how could I live like that. I would end it and quickly.
2) Neck-down paralysis. This would be much more difficult. I've thought it through when the possibility arose. I may have a plan for that as well. Not a good one, but where there's a will there's a way."
So, HIV or neck-down paralysis is the worst situation you could imagine. Interesting choice.
"The other 3 situations are maybes. I would give life without my sight or my legs a chance for awhile before making up my mind. Likewise with another horribly disfiguring and crippling disease like cancer. With cancer (or a similar disease) I would likely end it before I get too weak to wipe my own ass. Ew...the thought of somebody else wiping my poopy butt just nauseates me."
Please define "a disease similar to cancer". I´ll end up slowly suffocating... still not planning to kill myself. (That means I´ll at least try to stay alive, as long as I´ll make it without extra oxygen.) So, I do not understand how cancer would be a reason to commit suicide. Thats stupid.
"First, I'd like to see how the rest of you would kill yourselves. Yeah yeah. Most of you wouldn't under normal everyday circumstances. Pretend it's the apocalypse or smthg. You're a spy and you don't want your secrets to fall into enemy hands or w/e. How would you kill yourself quickly and effectively so everybody would stfu about trying to save you? xP"
new doc, different meds, overdose them + alcohol. then probably jump off a bridge/a very high building. why? if I by any chance survived the meds (Quite unlikely) I`d still die.
quickly? check. effectively? check. people not trying to save me because they couldnt do anything? check.