I'm not suicidal but I love the idea of suicide.
Is Japan the only culture that has ever romanticised suicide? I mean just suicide in itself, not self-sacrifice for a greater cause such as in war, etc.
>>1440358
romans certainly thought it was better to kill yourself than be executed or captured by the enemy.
>>1440358
No.
A lot of honor based societies did. Rome and China for instance.
Suicide is underrated - we'll all die anyway but with suicide you can choose your own way of dying.
there are stories and folk tales about young people who kill themselves because they can't be together
one such is the one about the couple and the lion, i can't remember their names, it's a greek story
it's also a common folk tale motif about women that rather die by suicide than get captured and raped by foreign armies and such
“Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself.”
― Emil Cioran
>>1440358
You fucking scene kiddo
>>1440358
Sorrows of Young Werther, Romeo and Juliet, etc
>>1440366
Heck, that's one of their founding myths.
>ancient king rapes a noble lady
>she's so pissed about the affront to her honor she demands the menfolk overthrow the king in revenge
>she kills herself due to her stained lady honor
>and thus we end the Roman Kingdom and enter the Republic
The Romans considered suicide the best way to save honor