Suicide is a war waged against oneself. There are no winners.
I’ve spent my professional life writing, researching, and teaching about various forms of family violence, and the causes and consequences of it. I also spent well over a decade counseling abusers and working with survivors.
“Committed suicide” is a phrase that many people have advocated against using, while insisting instead on the term “died by suicide.” I understand that language and naming are powerful, and I’m compassionate toward anyone who wants to remove theof suicide. But reinforcing passivity doesn’t really do that.
When I reflect on the people I know who have committed suicide, I've come to see how first they died in their own minds. One could say that they died by shame, disappointment,, or any number of other issues. So many life choices, as well as failure to fulfill one's own commitments, create the constellation of problems that culminate in these tragedies.Crafting euphemisms and other ways to soften the language to make us feel better may not really be what is most needed to reduce stigma.
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