Common misconception. There are two reasons people end their own lives. One is to kill themselves and the other is to kill everyone else. It’s a bit of a solipsistic conundrum, but if you consider it from the perspective of the person committing suicide both results happen in equal measure.
To attempt to put it in understandable terms, to the suicidal person all of our existence is merely an effect of their own perception. By destroying their own perception (ie dying) they kill all of us. Suicide in this case is more akin to mass murder than merely “I don’t want to live anymore”
A good example of this are Harris and Klebold, the Columbine shooters. They both kept very detailed journals in which its clear that Harris wanted the world to burn and considered his murder/suicide pact with Klebold to be how he would kill everyone. He saw us as figments of his imagination and that killing others and then himself would result in the death of reality… Klebold, on the other hand, was angry and depressed and really just wanted to die. He didn’t care that they were killing others, he was just going along with his friend before ultimately killing himself. Had it not been for Harris, Klebold would have likely used a rope or jumped under a truck himself. He just wanted to end his own pain. In fact, the most frequently used word in his journal was “love” and he was very concerned about how what they planned would impact his mother. His mother Susan Klebold, in “A Mother’s Reckoning” believes that her son’s depression was taken advantage of by the sociopathic Eric Harris. But the point is, they both were suicidal but were not both committing suicide for the same reasons. One meant to kill himself and the other meant to kill everyone else.
The reality of suicide is that both scenarios are true.
So this person diving under the wheels might not have been doing it to kill himself. He might have been doing it because from his perspective it was killing everyone else. Suicide is murder.
Very insteresting point... I totally agree.
