CMV: It is far more selfish to tell someone not to commit suicide “because it is selfish” than it is to actually commit suicide

My dad committed suicide when I was 17, I had no other family as my mom had died from breast cancer 5 years prior. I wasn't even a senior in high school and him making that incredibly selfish choice it has made very difficult on me and before you say I'm being selfish for only taking my feelings into account, I was still a minor that he was my guardian, I was his responsibility that he abandoned. On top of that his reasonings weren't necessarily selfish at surface level but his actions have had such an impact on me, my wife and my son who will never get to know his grandpa. I think it is selfish to tell someone suicide is a selfish action because you never know the demons someone is battling but committing suicide is the ultimate selfish act.

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