> figuring out how to put an increasing amount ... distance between you and your end.
I disagree. Death should be held close, to give value to life:
"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm's length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he's about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, I haven't touched you yet." -- Carlos Castenada
Death is always close. You can always throw yourself under a train, or a car can hit you while crossing the road. Heart attack. Robbery. Whatever it is.
Keeping some distance between you and a designed act to end yourself comfortably is helpful because when you're in a state of despair you do need to take some perspective before impulsively acting.
Impulses are powerful and very often not something we actually wanted to do in hindsight, and this extends beyond an on/off switch for life (for example into sexuality, or aggressive behaviour).
There's a difference between being present in the flow of the moment and embracing chaos. "Loving-kindness" towards yourself is part of that difference.
Please dont ever suggest people end it all by throwing themselves under a car, train truck or anything else controlled by somebody. Nobody should ever have to live with the fact they were driving a vehicle that somebody used to end it all. Why distroy two lives. Pretty selfish making somebody live with the consequences of your decision.
I did not suggest it, I'm merely stating the truth. You CAN do that, therefore the point of the person I was replying to isn't the one they were trying to make, which allowed me to shift the description of that point towards what it actually is about and deserved to be addressed.
Your message is just empty posturing here - it won't prevent people who are suffering from thinking what I wrote (spoiler alert: they already did long before I wrote it), and it doesn't address their pain either.
If you want people to not throw themselves in front of traffic, reach out to them and actually embrace that they have pain on their terms - not yours.
I don't agree. Society does not allow others to leave when they wish peacefully, so if that happens they will have have to live with the consequences. You can't have it both ways.
I disagree. Death should be held close, to give value to life:
"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm's length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he's about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, I haven't touched you yet." -- Carlos Castenada