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user-inactivated · 3359 days ago · link · · parent · post: How do you convince a completely miserable person that the world isn't such a terrible place?
I wouldn't. People only want to persuade suicidal people away from that decision because they don't know what comes next, and it validates the choice that the non-suicide makes to stay alive. The better question is: Why is he wrong? If he kills himself, then he is done with this world. If he doesn't like this world (even though that may very well be a temporary problem with a permanent solution) then why stay? Most of the time it's because people are afraid of what's next. Hamlet said all this centuries ago so it's not extremely profound, but it does answer the question of, "What if he's not wrong, and neither are you, because nobody really knows anything about existence?"