As a person that believes some very weird things and sees value in absurdism, I think that living without purpose is the same (if not worse than) dying.
Suicide doesn't need to be selfish, it doesn't need to be considering.
Suicide in essence is a personal decision, if the person still saw value in the ones left behind, then there is something to live for and suicide doesn't seem to have a point.
If there is no value in the ones left behind, and thus, no value or meaning to the person concerned then suicide has a point.
At some point the person will die, if it seems justified to the person that commits suicide I look upon it as any other death -- part of life.
This is the point TBerg was making, against your point. When you said you believe very weird things, i knew you were going to argue this point. It almost seems as though you decided to argue the point most sought against, which is fun, though not always entirely productive. Whereas I did not experience death yet, I would still like to argue the point that TBerg makes, though with some minor changes, to make it sound a bit more moderate.
The point of the taboo in society concerning suicide is mainly driven by an unconscious constant, which is unchanging in the fact that is must always be. This constant is that life must be considered sacred, so to speak, and that wasted life in murders or suicide are to be looked upon as negatively. Again, I have not yet experience any deaths in family, so I cannot make a case of this point with emotional evidence, though I do understand it from others. Others do consider this constant to be true, no matter what.
Now, suicide is ultimately taboo, and we can go on to prove why suicide is a bad thing. The first item that comes to mind is the fact that it gets better, and one can even come to regret their suicidal thoughts or attempts, which proves this to be reversible and therefore reasonable to combat. Again, one would combat it because life is sacred. Now, as to your point of everyone dies anyways, I would say that this point is true, although strictly in the most unbiased and therefore inconsiderate sense. It is a bad way to look at things, since it is unproductive and ultimately incorrect in (and when considering) society.
Whether or not suicide is selfish is entirely based on values, which have not yet entirely matured in me, so I would venture to (attempt to) outline various ways of looking at this, which is 1) the way that people are affected by their loved ones being lost is a negative impact wrought upon a certain "escape," therefore it is selfish. 2) loved ones experiencing this loss should be considerate of the fact that this individual was in distress, therefore it is not to be considered selfish as the individual was the victim.
Based on my assertion that "life is sacred" and "it can be treated and ultimately dealt with," I would answer the overall question with no, the question is loaded and lends itself to varying (though there is a majority in thought, which I believe is "yes") answers. The question "is suicide wrong," which is still a kind of bad question, would be productively answered, in that it is wrong.
Sorry for the possibly incoherent rambling and the possibly annoying use of "therefore," I hope this was a productive post?
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