If there is a way out, a way that isn’t death itself, then the exit route is through words.
*And the room silenced* I would say suicide is near the top of the list as one of the most uncomfortable words for someone who’s never thought about it to hear. And that’s just speaking from my own experiences. The stigma associated with suicide is far worse than that of depression. No one likes to talk about death. Ever.. which is weird because as human beings, it’s inevitable. What angers me most is hearing people say that suicide is selfish. I understand the immense pain that it causes to those you leave behind, but what people fail to even remotely see is the pain that person had to be going through to think that they had no other way out.
I was one of millions of people not just saddened by Robin Williams’s death, but scared of it, as if it somehow made it more likely for us to end up the same way. I didn’t know what to do with myself when I heard Robin Williams had committed suicide. In a weird sense, he was a father figure to me and someone I’d adored for as long as I can remember. I knew he had been having heart problems, and I was prepped with the fact that he was getting up there in age. I also knew he was depressed, as many comedians are, but I never knew it was to the extent that it was. Suicide is always a shock when it happens, but people don’t realize we’ve actually been practicing our poker face our entire lives. It’s exhausting beyond words, and there comes a time where you just don’t have it in you anymore.
The way I see it: I don’t tell you how to live your life, so it’s not fair for you to tell me how to live mine. But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. -Albert Camus