i’ve never heard someone think this way before, so it did shock me but idk how to feel about it. so, basically, he said that while the general belief seems to be (the stuff i’ve come across) that you should try to help a depressed person feel better and talk them out of (idk how much i can say) doing something bad to themselves if they’re considering it, that it’s actually selfish to do. he also said that people who feel/think this way are angels being called to heaven because they were too good for life on earth, and that you should respect a person’s wishes to die or a depressed person’s wish to not get better or else you’re a toxic and bad person.
i’m just curious because i don’t know if i can trust or agree with much of anything my ex says because of how he treated me and how he’d make fun of my mental health and make mean jokes/bully me for not wanting to talk to him because he’d ignore me and my anxiety, he’d just laugh at me when i said i was depressed or anxious.
Complicated answer. I do think suicide should be a human right (but you should have to be proven to be of sound mind and that it’s not for lack of social support, so mostly only painful terminal disorders). That said, your ex got to the conclusion of “people should be allowed to kill themselves” in a way that approaches the concept from a bizarre spiritual system that allows it to ignore pretty much all known ethical and moral standards.