Fuck that perspective, though.

My sister and I came from a hard childhood, and when she went to college she fell in with some 20-something Philosophy PhD students that she called her found family — her "real" family. And like you'd expect from young PhD students without a lick of real world experience, they were filled with smug, detached ideas about suicide being a personal decision that should be respected. My sister had a complete breakdown with depression and took to alcoholism, stopped going to class, stopped leaving her apartment, stopped everything. After a few months of this, she begged me, sobbing, if we could just throw her a party to celebrate her life, she could say goodbye, and she could kill herself. Do you know what a deeply terrifying thing that is to hear from your little sister?

Her "found family" was too busy to help her with the tedious shit like cleaning and emotional support. It's been decades and her life has not been easy, she still struggles, but she enjoys it, too. She's loved and has people she loves. She's glad that she didn't kill herself. She was suicidal again only weeks ago, and this time she picked up the phone and she reached out to me for help. She reached out to her psychiatrist to get back on meds. She is already doing worlds better. I am so glad that she did not listen to a bunch of snotty brats (who all scattered to the corners of the earth and forgot about her, as friends do when they leave college) about suicide being a perfectly fine personal choice when she was only a mentally ill 20 year old that was having difficulty processing trauma.

I was so, so gratified when that alien delivered that speech, in just that same detached, flippant, smug tone about suicide being a respectable choice for people who never chose to be born, and LaMarr shut her DOWN. I felt that. Like yeah, okay, you're entitled to your opinion, but keep it the fuck away from me and the people I love because it's disrespectful and destructive and that's not how this world works. If you want to talk about people at the end of their life, that's a different conversation, but don't apply it to someone in the prime of their life, like Isaac, who just needed support.