Tranquil Surrogate
For a Westerner? Yes it is incredibly selfish and a pointless waste. Not only are you throwing away your entire life for a comparatively miniscule and likely temporary issue, you're also ignoring the massive privilege of being born in the First World.
You're not starving. You're not a slave. You've got access to education. Opportunity is abundant.
There are over 29 million slaves in the world. They are stuck in a grim world where they are forced to do manual labor with no breaks, often while starving, and there is no guarantee they will ever live a normal life. But they cling to life on the faint notion of hope. For the most part, they don't give in.
What gives any Westerner the right to kill themselves when any one of these 29 million slaves could only dream of experiencing such a carefree lifestyle? It's disgusting, irrational and ungrateful. Grow the ******** up and learn to appreciate.
Now hang on just a minute. You gotta look at this more like a video game. If you get a game you expect to be challenging only to find half way through that you've been playing on easy mode, the only reasonable thing to do is hit the reset button and play it on hard mode. Suicide is the reset button for us westerners who want a challenge.
Oh, and don't act like the first world is all peaches and cream. The psychological torment people can put outcasts through can be unbearable. You say opportunity is abundant, yet homosexuals are denied the opportunity to marry, a very basic right even a slave might get. You say there is access to education, but some are victims of so much bullying at institutes of education that they can not hope to focus on their studies. You say we are not slaves... well that one's difficult to argue. I will, however, point out that the United States government grows larger every year and imposes more and more limitations on people. Certainly this is not slavery, but I swear if I ever get a ticket for not wearing a seat belt I will fight like it is. Not kidding, nanny state laws, these laws that are made to protect people from themselves, piss me off more than you would believe. Not starving you say? Did you know there are poor parents who sell their food stamps to buy liquor and lottery tickets rather than feed their children? Guess the kid should have taken that opportunity to get a job those child labor laws protect him from.