Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
Suicide Is Not an Act of Cowardice
It’s important to remember that suffering is relative. Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test. Sometimes you might feel as if you don’t have a right to call your suffering “suffering”, because you’re not a former child soldier, and you aren’t in extreme poverty. That’s not how it works. Relatively privile... See more
Sasha Chapin • How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me
‘Depression’, writes Ruth Cain, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Kent, ‘may appear almost self-protective: an opt-out from an unwinnable set of continual competitions’.27 Although stigmatised in many ways, it is the healthy response to a mad, uncaring world.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
act. In late modernity, what pushes someone into suicidal ideation has largely shifted. Most often it’s not the feeling of a failed bold action but rather a sense that none of your actions matter at all, that any action you take is meaningless.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
“Only optimists commit suicide” (Cioran).