It's advice I tend to give, yeah. Who knows when your statements have already been covered, or questions been answered, etc., if you don't look to find out?
Now, before you go decrying the "obvious" about what I may or may not have experienced, a road I refuse to go down on a public forum, I should remind you that there exists in this world things called "fatal injuries" and "terminal illnesses". There are problems that don't get better. At all. Ever. What's most tragic about these problems is that the person who has them usually realizes that they won't get better. At all. Ever. To use an appropriate analogy, this isn't a matter of your body fighting cancer; this is a matter of
your body is physically losing to it. Or you having grown old and withered enough that your body is already starting to fail and shut down. Or you having suffered a grievous enough injury that the
most the miracles of modern medicine are doing is slowing down the inevitable. This doesn't even touch on the mental disorders that behave as diseases and that are likewise incurable.
Everyone dies, no doubting that, but not everyone draws the short straw and has to look at their death in the near future, knowing that everything they ever wanted will never happen. I don't give two craps about your background. You're alive, I'll make an assumption that you're in half-decent health. You aren't looking at your death as a guaranteed near-future event.
Are people who are experiencing what I'm describing weak because they want to choose their own death? Are they selfish? Are they stupid? Should I begin giving examples of the influential people who've chosen their own way out because of exactly the scenarios I described above? If you've figured out the answers to those questions, and can explain them, I'm all ears. Somehow I have my doubts.
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