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This thread has really helped me persevere in these hard times, and I often look for other posts similar to this situation on this site so I don’t feel alone.
I’ve come across a few people posting here and there “No amount of money is worth killing yourself over” or people with relatively more debt than myself wanting to end it, and people calling them stupid for it.
3k could be a small amount of debt to a lot of people, but could be the difference in someone’s ability to take care of themselves on a given day if they’re barely scraping by.
Last week was real bad for me and I am still struggling even though I am here. But seeing people be so unsympathetic about a person’s survival is so bewildering to me.
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At the risk of sounding like a nitpicker or devil's advocate or worse, I actually do think framing suicide as always being an overreaction to a solvable problem is problematic.
There are situations where I think we can say people have suffered more than we could reasonably expect one person to bear. Be it from illness/pain, mental illness, grief, poverty, or dire, complicated and persistent problems that the person has tried and failed to change.
I think it's important that we as a society examine the root cause of suicides and address them accordingly to prevent more from happening. It's awful to consider some suicides as a reasonable reaction to a lack of support, but I really think that considering it an individual overreaction... Is misguided.