Suicide, the internets, and why you're all a bunch o' biased assholes

How many of you believe its your own goddamned right to take your life if you feel compelled to?

I'm currently researching various topics involving mortality out of sheer curiosity. After reading what the almighty internet has to offer, I find myself even more disappointed by the sullied perception of death that has been presented to me.

I happened upon a collection of essays written by an elderly fellow with malignant cancer and Kavorkian ideals. He states, very politely and eloquently in fact, how if there is pain present and you've exhausted your options - suicide is an alternative that should not be overlooked.

The replies to this man's essays were staggering. I'd say out of the two-hundred-something comments I read (omitting all the comments written by religious zealots and complete tosspots), only about ten of them weren't vehemently negative. This irritated me to no end. I punched into Google "painless ways to kill yourself", and was outraged to be misled by links claiming to offer just such information, only to be redirected to websites with the audacity to tell me how its not my time and in some cases why I "need to accept Jesus"

Utter. Bullshit.
Yes. The act of suicide, especially in teens, is often driven entirely by overactive hormones buggering up their emotions. If some berk teeny wants to kill himself because the hot girl at school won't stroke his hog, that's a completely different matter imo. In such situations, the problem has to be examined carefully and then the person reminded of their real motivations.
Regardless of the connotation surrounding death (which is instinctively influenced), and regardless of whatever misguided satisfaction you get out of keeping that one extra asshole alive longer than they want, I think it's a vulgar act of partiality to refuse information to someone simply because the rest of us are "sane" enough to realize "death isn't the answer" (good lord).

Given all the circumstances, I think one's life should be their own fucking business. If they want to cack themselves and their reasoning is sound (ie not influenced by inebriation or hormones), let them. We have too many people on the planet as it is. I think its a sick tactic to limit suicide rates by simply denying suicidals the appropriate information in mainstream availability. There are several recorded incidents of botched suicide attempts significantly damaging one's recreational capacity. Hangings where the survivor is now confined to a wheelchair with brain damage. Doing a nose-dive off a building resulting in crippling paraplegia. Lives made even worse than before because they weren't sufficiently educated on the subject. Whats worse is that their friends and family, in more than one case, are constantly reminding them that there current condition is the result of their own "bad choices" (Ironically enough, a survey of documented premeditated suicides shows that the person killing him/herself attributed their misery to their family being part of the problem as opposed to part of the solution).

Well, I'll continue this conversation further if any of you are actually arsed to touch this topic with a ten foot pole. I considered making it a thread, but after reading all of the prejudice views of suicide the net has to offer, I figured I should keep this in here to avoid negrep and troll feeding.

I know alot of you can't be arsed to read all of that, which is why I asked the question first. Answer it as you will.

Suicide booths anyone?