Hypothetical situation. Let's say that I, at the age of 47, am suddenly afflicted with ALS. And given my age and previous health issues, this will cause my body to deteriorate much faster. Say, I have at most 18 months to live, and during those 18 months I will quickly become a shell of my former self, burden my wife and family with the financial and emotional challenges of what this disease will become, and I will no longer have the capacity to do anything. There is no cure, and the fatality rate is 100%. I am absolutely guaranteed that I am going to die.
I say "Fuck it." I have life insurance, I have a pension, a 401K, that can all go towards helping my wife to not only pay off all of our bills, but to help secure a financial future for her and my son. Funds that would have otherwise been used to try and keep me comfortable in a no-win situation.
All I would need to do is end my life. Is that selfish? Keeping in mind that I did not choose to contract ALS, but Aaron Hernandez chose to commit those violent acts. And for someone who is a Catholic and knows all too well about the sin of suicide and how you don't go to heaven. Well I would rather be in hell than have my wife and son go through the same thing on earth if that is what it took.
Edit- And for the record, no, this is not an announcement that I have ALS. I was just trying to use that crippling disease as an example
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The way you describe it is an extreme case, which I empathize with, as I do with pretty much everyone who kills themselves. I don't use selfishness in a negative way here. If one thinks taking his or her life is an end to his or her suffering, who am I to say they shouldn't be thinking that way when I haven't lived their life and have no clue about why they think they can't keep going. Taking one's own life is a major decision, it's scary and irrevrsible, so when one does it there's absolutely no way for me or anyone else for that matter to say whether the decision was justified or not. All I was trying to say in my previous posts was that suicide is all about the "self", you can't stand the pain anymore, you can't fight anymore, you are tired, you have no reason (in your mind) or motivation to be alive, so it's all about you. There's no sleflessness in that.
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