I got the metaphor. I didn't quite get how it explains why people choose to kill themselves in a particularly stressful or violent manner though. Someone jumping out of a burning building didn't choose to do this beforehand.
They commit suicide, even in terrifying way, because they're escaping something even worse, i.e. burning alive/continuing to suffer depression.
Mentall illness is very difficult to understand I guess. I'm trying to look at it logically when perhaps it is beyond logic and reason.
Looking at it logically, the mental anguish inside may seem far greater than any physical pain you can imagine. That doesn't mean you jump into a meat grinder, because, heh, I am escaping something even worse, so... The truth is, perhaps it is beyond understanding unless you suffer from it yourself.
I suppose I could kind of understand jumping off a building because of its convenience though. If someone just cracks and has had enough in that moment, well, I guess it might be the most convenient way. Something easily accessible to you.
I think in Chloe's case, she was particularly ill and maybe lacked the perspective (or care) to know that self-immolation would be so painful - especially in comparison to the trauma she felt while alive. A lot of this stuff isn't rational at all. But for the most part, she's an outlier. Because there just aren't many peaceful ways to die and because the actors engaging in it are not given to rationality, it all just becomes interchangeable. Getting access to heroin/sleeping pills/guns is out of the cards for most people, and if you look at suicide methods by country, places with tough gun control overwhelmingly use alternatives like hangings, etc. In the US, the vast majority are fire-arm related. It's just what's available, and the particularly ill outliers are interfacing less with their options.
Yeah. This makes sense to me.
