Venting What are the dumbest pro-life statements?

[KillingPain267]

Pro-lifers say the darndest things.

 

[Darkover]

"Life is always worth living."
"Just think positive!"
"You'll regret it if you choose death."
"God doesn't give you more than you can handle."
"Suicide is selfish."
"Think of all the people who love you."
"Everyone has a purpose."
"It gets better."
"Life is a gift."
"People in worse situations still want to live."

 

[KillingPain267]

"Life is always worth living."
"Just think positive!"
"You'll regret it if you choose death."
"God doesn't give you more than you can handle."
"Suicide is selfish."
"Think of all the people who love you."
"Everyone has a purpose."
"It gets better."
"Life is a gift."
"People in worse situations still want to live."

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Not exactly what you were asking, but I can't stand when people are complaining about health issues and getting older and then says " but what's the alternative?" And then everyone laughs like they all agree. I just want to scream " better!

 

[SteamaHorns]

"You don't want to die, you just want to stop feeling pain."

"You want to die? Then throw yourself into the sea and you'll see yourself fighting to survive. You do not want to kill yourself, rather you want to kill something inside of you."

There's also one that I haven't really seen in the form of a reoccuring quote, but have seen some state that those who commit suicide are cowards.

 

[vanillamilkshakes]

'we're here to help!'

 

[ijustwishtodie]

"Life is a gift"
"Everything is about the right mindset"
"Suicide is always irrational"
"It gets better"
"Life is worth living no matter what"

All in all, asking for the dumbest pro life statement doesn't really narrow it down at all since all pro life statements are extremely dumb

 

[Ethel]

"It's a temporary feelings"
"It gets buried with time"
"We are all here for you"

So on and so on,such statements only give you fake hope,and with time those things only show distance,misunderstanding and a hit of sadness

 

[shironeko]

"you are so young"
"Everyone will be disappointed after you dies"

 

[Forever Sleep]

'You have your whole life ahead of you.' Like- seriously? You can't see that that's the problem here?

 

[yariousvamp]

"life is a gift" yeah maybe to your privileged ahh. try to live one year as a poor woman in north africa and say that again.

 

[zengiraffe]

"suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

I hate this saying for several reasons

• Permanent solutions are better than temporary solutions
• It's pointlessly redundant to say "temporary problem" because our lives are finite so technically all problems we face are temporary problems, as we'll die eventually anyway
• By the same logic technically all solutions are temporary as well, so it makes no sense to call suicide a "permanent solution" as nothing we experience is permanent, we cease to exist in death so it's an experienceless state of nonbeing

 

[KillingPain267]

"suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

I hate this saying for several reasons

• Permanent solutions are better than temporary solutions
• It's pointlessly redundant to say "temporary problem" because our lives are finite so technically all problems we face are temporary problems, as we'll die eventually anyway
• By the same logic technically all solutions are temporary as well, so it makes no sense to call suicide a "permanent solution" as nothing we experience is permanent, we cease to exist in death so it's an experienceless state of nonbeing

Exactly. It's like people block out death from their minds and believe by default that they will live forever.

 

[wCvML2]

"Suicide does not end the pain, it just passes it to someone else"
That's another platitude that's thrown around often to guilt trip suicidal people by suggesting a weird mock up to the conservation of energy law - a law for the conservation of pain. The permanence of pain does not really convince me it's worth sticking around. I don't think it matters who holds the pain, if that pain exists then the choice to opt out of existence and catch the bus should be a basic human right.

 

[pyx]

"life is what you make of it"

 

[N7_Alliance_Marine]

The fact that over 73 million babies are aborted every single year and I can't do a damn thing to stop it is part of the reason I want to kill myself.

 

[sevennn]

The fact that over 73 million babies are aborted every single year and I can't do a damn thing to stop it is part of the reason I want to kill myself.

i would rather be aborted. they are not missing anything. it's a cruel existence here on earth

 

[mrpeter]

"you're not really depressed you're just lying for attention"

 

[-nobodyknows-]

Not really a pro-life statement, but the one that fucks me up the most is "I promise I will help you get through this and be there for you". It always ends up being too much to handle though. I don't really blame them because I do think they mean it when they say it, but just don't know what they're getting themselves into. Still… I fall for it every single time. And every single time it hurts so much when they have to leave.

 

[N7_Alliance_Marine]

i would rather be aborted. they are not missing anything. it's a cruel existence here on earth

My parents were going to abort me but luckily didn't. If they did, I wouldn't be here right now. At least if you're not aborted you're given the choice if you want to live or die.

 

[sevennn]

My parents were going to abort me but luckily didn't. If they did, I wouldn't be here right now. At least if you're not aborted you're given the choice if you want to live or die.

if they aborted you, you wouldn't even know. so that's a dumb point. and what choice? i don't have euthanasia access and neither do you. we only have a choice of potentially turning ourselves into vegetables with weird suicide methods. yay. that makes me so happy! and anyway we derailed the thread so let's stop

 

[Tired_of_myself]

You feel to much, you have to grow up

 

[N7_Alliance_Marine]

if they aborted you, you wouldn't even know.

Yeah, because my ripped apart fetus would be in a trashcan getting eaten by flies.

and what choice? i don't have euthanasia access and neither do you.

Bridge, rope, car, etc.

 

[nux_walpurgis]

"You don't want to die, you just want to stop feeling pain."

"You want to die? Then throw yourself into the sea and you'll see yourself fighting to survive. You do not want to kill yourself, rather you want to kill something inside of you."

There's also one that I haven't really seen in the form of a reoccuring quote, but have seen some state that those who commit suicide are cowards.

Is it bad that I relate to those quotes

Especially the first one.

Like, yeah, for me, I don't really want to die, but I suffer so much so death is the only escape. If there was a way for the suffering to go away I wouldn't want to die anymore.

 

[sevennn]

Yeah, because my ripped apart fetus would be in a trashcan getting eaten by flies.

Bridge, rope, car, etc.

you are going to be eaten by worms etc regardless. and these methods are shitty as hell. i'd rather have been aborted than physically sick and suffering. every day

 

[Praestat_Mori]

"You have no other option but to go on living."

That was the worst pro-lifer statement I got to hear when I was very down last year.

 

[rozeske]

"It gets better", "others have it worse", "i was able to get rid of my suicidal thoughts now I'm the self appointed saviour of all that's in despair"

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

The notion that talking to others about your problems will automatically help solve them. Most people either don't want to actually hear that shit or they have nothing useful to say besides other generic and useless statements.

 

[justkatie]

Life is what you make of it.

Uh no, life is often completely out of your control so even when you are doing your best, life can still throw poo at you.

"It gets better", "others have it worse", "i was able to get rid of my suicidal thoughts now I'm the self appointed saviour of all that's in despair"

Others have it worse.

Gosh I hate that one. The old "There's people starving in Africa".

Yes I know and it's awful for them too. Just because others are struggling too does not dismiss my struggles.

 

[SteamaHorns]

Is it bad that I relate to those quotes

Especially the first one.

Like, yeah, for me, I don't really want to die, but I suffer so much so death is the only escape. If there was a way for the suffering to go away I wouldn't want to die anymore.

I would say for most people and for myself, that the stupidity of these quotes don't stem from the fact that they're untrue, but rather from the redundancy of the statements. The quotes aim to shift your perspective on your desire to commit suicide without actually changing or revealing new information about the reality of the situation itself. Yeah sure, I would say most people who want to commit suicide don't want to do it simply for the inherent action itself, but rather because of what comes from it, which would be to escape their pain or other similar kinds of negative emotions, which stem from their own struggles that are present in their lives. It doesn't change the fact that commiting suicide is possibly a solution to the pain and suffering that they so desperately want to escape.

The line of reasoning used within these quotes are quite similar to, if not literally the same as if I were to tell you that you don't want to eat food, you just want to get rid of your sensation of hunger, or that you want to experience the pleasurable sensations that come from tasting good food. Or that you don't want to watch a movie, but that you just want to become immersed into a collection of ideas, concepts, and feelings from living through the narrative of said movie.

I personally find the quotes distasteful because of the confident to arrogant tone that seems present in them on top of the fact that it doesn't actually present new information that could be helpful for the person's concrete reality. But yeah, it's not a bad thing that you relate to those quotes lol.