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May 1, 2014 Old
Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
I meant what I meant. When circumstances are stacked to promote one choice over another, it's not a true choice anymore. If I say you have the choice of being shot in the foot, or shot in the head, can you say you made a choice if you chose to be shot in the foot, or that you were forced into the choice? Severe depression is very similar to that. It feels like you can choose a lifetime of suffering, or to end it all right now. The end result is the same, it's the path taken that matters. It's not a rational evaluation of the choices, but you aren't in a rational state of mind to begin with. The choices look stacked, so the "choice" is more a selection of the obviously favorable. And since depression isn't a choice to begin with, suicide can be concluded as an inevitability of depression, barring preventative measures.

I'm skipping a bit of the reasoning involved to reach the conclusion, but I hope it's clear enough.

But in the end, the act of suicide is a choice. There's a lot of severely depressed people who don't commit suicide. It isn't like the analogy you used, nobody is holding a gun to your head saying you have to do it. Sure it might seem like it's the only option, but you have to really think it through. You are given the gift of life, it is really selfish and frankly cowardly to cut it short.
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