Suicide as a protest

[StrawberryRed]

What do u guys think of killing yourself as a way to send a message or in hopes of change? For example, self-immolation (setting yourself on fire as a form of protest). Or like on a smaller scale doing it to personally go against/escape societal norms/ capitalism. Or even as protest ro your family or friends, trying to hurt them or make them change. I think that in most political cases it unnecessary, people now adays dont care when hearing about death through the news. Especially if its political. Would you kill yourself as protest or is that already a reason for you? Even though I dont see the point I would consider. I always hope that if I kms , my uni would become a better place for students, if that counts.

 

[OldManOfTheLake]

I have honestly thought of this for some horrific injustice I have suffered, and I know others have suffered as well.


The unfortunate truth is, people don't care anymore. People have been conditioned to be so hateful in the last 9 years that I wouldn't be surprised if people cheered me lighting myself on fire.

Change isn't going to happen by a single suicide. We have been conditioned to be cruel and heartless.

My old university president got caught in a kick back scheme and prior dismissed concerns about an unhinged professor who committed a mass shooting against other faculty. It made the news. He still works there, but no longer as president.

You are a good person. You are underestimating how shitty people can be.

 

[ScaredOfMachines]

Killing yourself as a protest sounds kind of pointless to me. It's as you said; people have become have sort of apathetic towards death in recent years. I remember hearing a story a couple years back of a self-immolation protest. A man, Wynn Bruce, set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court building in protest of their climate change policies. Two years later, no one remembers him, and nothing has really changed on the climate front either.

 

[endofline2010]

Suicide as a protest is a thing. Unless you're doing something like this, and your picture is remembered 35 years later, it may not really have the impact you're hoping for:

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Jesus could have avoided his execution, so his death was kind of suicide. His death was a protest against the religious and political situation in his country. Imagine he were not crucified, this would have had quite an impact on history.

 

[rozeske]

I consider it to be pointless and a waste of life. At best you might get attention for like a minute then quickly forgotten. You will be dead but people will move on with their lifes. Suicide should only be about you and what you want with your life.

 

[Reflection]

Usually useless, just like doing it for revenge and similar stuff, you may not achieve what you were hoping for, and you won't be here to verify that either. I think that suicide should be solely for your sake, to free yourself from torment.

 

[SVEN]

I suspect most folk would hardly even notice. Many of those who do will just assume the individual was mentally disturbed. Killing yourself for a cause doesn't seem very likely to me to attract people to that cause.