There was somebody posting these lyrics in other community as something that spoke to them:

You know, suicide isn’t painless,
When you leave everyone in pain.
NOFX - Doornails

Anybody has the right to have any lyrics - or any thing really - to mean whatever it needs to mean to them. But...

I lost a dear colleague and friend to suicide just a week ago and I am myself passively suicidal. Bullying people that contemplate ending their suffering into staying alive or tainting the names and acts of those that already did is just not the way to go.

Edit: this is not critique towards the person who commented those lyrics, but against that artist and society in general.

I just had to rant. Feel free to believe or react in any way that feels right to you.

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I'm really sorry to hear that. I find the unity of being a pretty obvious, fundamental, and directly observable truth. Being a good part of this greater whole is my core motivation. When people say 'touch grass' they're (unfortunately often derisively) reminding you to ground yourself in that shared reality. In a zero sum game where everyone possesses their own suffering and competes to experience the least what you're saying makes sense, but I refuse to live that way. It's all our suffering, experienced collectively, and the collapse of one small spark of self inevitably leaves the burden of that experience on the shoulders of the living when it's gone. I think a lot of systemic effort goes into isolating and atomizing us. We're a lot easier to manipulate when we feel isolated and alone. There's not much more I can do to convince you of it through a screen, but that's the message I hope to convey here. Not "suicide is wrong", but "we're all in this together".

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