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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy
On the thread topic, I find it a little bit of a moot point for me - I don't think anyone makes a genuine attempt to take their own life unless they're suffering from severe mental health issues... be that acute in-the-moment desperation/crisis or a chronic mental health downwards spiral over months or years.
There are yes of course cases where apparent suicide attempts are made where that person knowingly did not intend to kill themselves, and were either never at real risk, or didn't know what risk they were taking. There are very tragically examples where people haven't genuinely intended to kill themselves but have nonetheless ended up dying.
Again I wouldn't think that anyone who does that is in good mental health, just in a different way, so a different thing but again I don't think "justification" comes into it. They're not rational actions (self harm, OR threatening self harm without real intent) and so "justification" is the wrong word ... they're just behaviours.
I would add though that I think suicide (and assisted suicide) for people dying of painful or debilitating conditions is absolutely justified and even quite understandable.
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So do I. People need to learn to but out when it’s not their life. If I developed terminal cancer that absolutely couldn’t be made manageable I’d want out. To me life’s special but not that special.