perturbation comments on Is suicide high-status? - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Stabilizer 12 February 2013 09:41AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 February 2013 04:58:05PM 12 points [-]

It depends on the culture -- suicide is definitely not high-status among Catholics. (They're no longer like “if you kill yourself you'll go to hell no matter what” and they no longer refuse to celebrate funerals for people who committed suicide, so it used to be even worse.)

Comment author: [deleted] 13 February 2013 01:10:28AM 1 point [-]

"The unforgivable sin of despair", I've heard it called.