Somehow the idea that someone can be perfectly sane and not want to live as long as possible is inconceivable to people.
They should really get over it. Just like those with different gender preferences they won't ever understand they will have to just take people's word that it's sincere and they're doing it of sound mind.
The rationalizations I hear people use are really hollow to me, like someone claiming a gay man just hasn't met the right woman yet. It's fundamentally different.
All of my friends who have taken their own lives struggled with it for years. I wish they weren't gone but I have to respect if after all therapy and help options were exhausted, they still were committed, then so be it. I wish they were here right now, of course I do. It fucking sucks.
It's personally traumatizing but as my final act of friendship I was there to support them in their decisions.
I had to sign off the release forms for my friend's ashes 6 years ago and drive up to santa barbara to give them to his mother. I remember sitting there in silence at her kitchen table with her when she said "we all knew it was the right thing."
They should really get over it. Just like those with different gender preferences they won't ever understand they will have to just take people's word that it's sincere and they're doing it of sound mind.
The rationalizations I hear people use are really hollow to me, like someone claiming a gay man just hasn't met the right woman yet. It's fundamentally different.
All of my friends who have taken their own lives struggled with it for years. I wish they weren't gone but I have to respect if after all therapy and help options were exhausted, they still were committed, then so be it. I wish they were here right now, of course I do. It fucking sucks.
It's personally traumatizing but as my final act of friendship I was there to support them in their decisions.
I had to sign off the release forms for my friend's ashes 6 years ago and drive up to santa barbara to give them to his mother. I remember sitting there in silence at her kitchen table with her when she said "we all knew it was the right thing."