If it was in fact suicide, that would be the most selfish act a person could possibly do to his family.
That is quite demonstrably false.
Let us look at the despair a person who reaches for suicide must be feeling. That brink sets the level of despair at its ultimate level, as a scintilla pushes him over it.
Now that we see
that level, the level of pain of others is
below it, unless they also teeter on that edge.
So the
most selfish act would be to ask a person to stay the ultimate heights (depths?) of despair, the ultimate agony, so the person
not at that level is spared.
Now, some people lack the empathetic capability to understand that level of agony in others. Yet many of those people can understand it intellectually, and recognize how selfish they are in wanting to keep someone away from relief from that agony.
But still, there are those without empathetic or intellectual capability to grasp it, yet still persist in insisting a person owes his life to others or to the state and must endure agony at their own pleasure.
Those people are sick. Or evil. Or perhaps both.
Fortunately, many families love their loved ones enough to prefer they are out of pain than in it.
Sometimes that pain may be relieved by psychological or psychiatric means, but unfortunately we don't have the means to help everyone that way.
@240B @Freya @DCPatriot @berdie
