I always hated when therapists said shit like this or wanted you to “promise” not to kill yourself, because suicide by definition makes you immune from all your obligations. If I break my promise I’ll be dead and you won’t be able to punish me for breach of contract. So why make me go through with this ritual of either lying or making a meaningless promise that’s not enforceable?
Similarly I hated being put in the catch-22 of being asked to affirm that I’m not actively suicidal because such an affirmation is inherently untrustworthy. A truly suicidal person would never tell a medical/psychological professional that they intend to kill themselves, because that means they’re going to lock you up and remove your ability to kill yourself. So it’s a question where yes means no, and no sometimes means yes.
Most suicides are not well thought out with calculated expected values that factor in the release of liabilities post mortem.
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