Why can't people be more compassionate to those who attempt(ed) suicide

Question

Why does everyone act so shallow and cold hearted towards others with such lost souls and depression?

Answer 1

Because some people don't have the depth of character to understand what drives a person to such despair as to contemplate suicide.

Anyone who lacks compassion for a suicidal person doesn't really deserve to have an opinion about it.

Answer 2

happy people attracts happy people

Answer 3

Because so many of us feel the lure but know it affects too many others for it to just be about us. It's cheating.  I can't take the easy way out and leave others holding the bag...of guilt grief rage and damage for the rest of their time here.  It's not fair. So their selfishness angers us.

Answer 4

Whenever I want to know why people behave in certain mysterious ways, I ask myself what purpose that behavior might have had during the prehistoric period (many times longer than civilization), when human society was organized into clans. Now, you might say, "But we're past all that," but it's part of our human heritage, and it is still a part of us -- just as your childhood is a part of you.

So let me ask you, would humans of those times have been compassionate toward those who attempted suicide?  I doubt it.  They would have looked on them as seriously flawed, and undependable to the rest of the group -- possibly a real liability to the group.  Can you imagine:  you tell Zog, the caveman to keep watch for tigers who might carry off your children, and he -- not being able to handle the pressure -- offs himself, leaving all of you vulnerable.  Would you feel compassionate toward Zog?  I doubt it.

And to tell you the truth, I don't feel very compassionate toward people who attempt suicide -- perhaps because I ha a good friend who did, and it hurt me a lot.  But it's your right, and no one can take that away from you.  Just don't ask me to help, and don't ask me to clean up the mess afterward.

Answer 5

The number one reason: lack of knowledge. Most people are not aware of or do not understand the severity of  mental disorders. Depression and other mental disorders have become so passe, everyone is always hollering they got something. Suicide attempts have fell victim to the boy that cried wolf syndrome, due to the thinking or non-thinking of the uninformed.