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Originally Posted by MelodyL
Hi.
Honestly, from what you have written, I gather no one here can talk you out of doing what you are set on doing. I recently put up a thread on an amazing man with no arms and no legs (who also thought of suicide at the age of eight), because he didn't want to be a burden on his family.
That man is now an adult and he travels extensively as a motivational speaker helping THOUSANDS of the disabled and the non-disabled. He even made me laugh when he played music with his little flipper foot. He has SOME sense of humor.
He made the young people in the room, laugh and cry. He explained his way of thinking, his belief system (this is what I think got him to the point where he is today).
He found a purpose for his life. Not a reason for being disabled, but a purpose for his existence.
We all have purpose. Some don't find it until we are older than usual. But I think everyone has a purpose.
We just need to find what that purpose is and what we can do with it.
I wish you well on your journey to whatever you decide is in your best interest.
I can only hope it's to continue to exist, to reach out, to make someone smile, to give someone a compliment.
TO LIVE!!!
As Spock used to say
Live Long and Prosper!!
and yeah, I GREW UP ON STAR TREK!!! And I try to use humor every single day.
lol
Melody
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Hello, Melody: Thanks for your latest contribution.
Yes, I watched your post on the man without limbs. Such people make the unimaginable real, actual. He's onto something profound: you can get away with doing things in a funny way which might cause riots if stated in a serious essay.
"I think everybody has a purpose." I do, too. I also think that at 66, my purpose may be behind me -- although right now, as I write these words, I sense another purpose emerging: help people see that taking one's own life and suicide are not necessarily the same thing.
You note, "I gather no one here can talk you out of doing what you are set on doing." I wonder ... is one of the differences between taking one's own life and suicide PRECISELY that in the former, there is indeed nothing you can talk them out of, whereas in the latter -- say a teenager sitting on the ledge of a building -- there is the material there to talk them down? "Talk them out of" implies misplaced emotions, mistaken ideas. Can it be that somebody can take their own life and have well-founded emotions and mature, rational ideas? Is that possible?
Suicide is a "beast" -- I agree with neurotalk members on that point. But what about "taking one's own life" due to an incurable disease and increasing weakness and constant discomfort and/or pain?