Somewhere, in a comment on someone's blog once, I saw "suicide is selfish, the easy way out". I wonder if the person making that comment had any idea how painful that is for someone like me to read? If suicide is selfish, then it is no more selfish than anything else we do. I don't know how it is for other people, but my son killed himself not because he wanted to, but because he felt he had no choice. He wasn't selfish, and even in those last minutes of his life, he was thinking of how to ease it for those he loved and left. Suicide is not easy.