Do You Have to Eliminate Attachments to Things?

Buddhism tries to eliminate the self, but there's a heavy element of this in stoicism as well. I think it sapped your emotional life and the real love of it, because there's much more to life than virtue and Nirvana. And that's the fact that we have to deal with. But detaching yourself from everything you care about only serves to extinguish the self... In that sense, it's just suicide.