CMV: It is MY right to decide my fate, and that right should extend to suicide as well.

First off let me say that I'm sorry you are having to go through this. Speaking as someone who has gone through some very dark times (at least from my perspective) it can be a very lonely and heavy existence. As for my particular views on the legality of suicide, I believe under certain conditions that suicide, or assisted suicide should be legal. For example if someone is dying of a terminal disease and is in extreme pain, there is no reason that they should have to exist in torment if they don't wish to. However, outside of a medical certainty of death, I can certainly see why suicide is illegal. I've seen several other people argue the point from societies perspective and from a law enforcement perspective and I agree with them. I would like to now argue it from a personal perspective.

Obviously I cannot truly know your pain, but I can extrapolate on mine and imagine the area you are in. From my own personal philosophy I see life as an uncertainty in every aspect. You never know what is going to happen tomorrow and how your life will change, for better or for worse. For someone who is only 22 you have known a lot of pain, but there is still so much more in life that is possible. If you decide to call it quits and bow out now, you will never know what might have been. For me, I could never take away my own chance at happiness and fulfillment. The chance that things could change is worth the hope that they will.

From this perspective, how then could you deny yourself the chance at happiness? Surely the hope that things could one day change is enough to warrant staying alive and living for a better world. To clarify, by change I do not just mean circumstance, but also possible medication or therapy that could help you. From my own limited knowledge of therapy and depression medication, not everybody responds the same way to everything, and as such it can take years before they find something that works for them. Just because its been years and you have yet to find something doesn't mean that you never will. It just means its hard to continue, but nothing worth anything is ever easy.

I hope that this at least allows you to consider looking at your circumstance in a different light, and perhaps leads you to find a new reason to keep going.

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