Also liberating in a similar sense: full-blown rabies, amoebic encephalitis, prion disease.
Potentially fatal illnesses are medical emergencies, not mood shifts or errors in judgement.
Potentially fatal illnesses are medical emergencies, not mood shifts or errors in judgement.
Depression is a state of mind, often (but not always) induced by circumstantial situations, financial, existential, diet, stagnation/exercise... the cause of Depression for many can be resolved, with effort - and it takes a significant amount of effort for someone with depression to do things as simple and necessary and normally enjoable as eating a meal or taking a shower.
The point is, if you're going to do something as extreme as quit life, you might as well try to see if your depression may just be caused by a lack of exercise or "tunnel vision" of your perception of the world that could be drastically contrasted through experiencing therapeutic mild doses of MDMA [1][2] or cannabis or pharmaceuticals.
[1] http://www.maps.org/ [2] http://boingboing.net/2015/05/05/crowdfunding-medical-mdma-a...
Suicidal depression is a medical emergency.