youvebeenthunderstruck

you are too smart to kill yourself. i said the same thing to myself for months and i'm still alive.

Cosbydaf

I seriously considered killing myself once, but I didn't do it, for two reasons:

1: It didn't really seem like the BEST choice.
2: I was too chicken. Plus, I might not have done it right, and then I would I would still have had to live, but with even worse problems.

And I'm glad I really didn't do it, cuz things just got better from there.

Kirby

If you take the clean and silent way and decide to overdose on pills, think of what happens. Yes you die, but before that a poison spreads through you. The anti-life, an abomination, destroying you. You may not feel anything but it would be there, silent and hidden. Flowing through your bloodstream, around your bones, into your muscles, within the heart. It would seep into the crevices of your brain and drip onto every neuron and piece of grey matter. Like a snake or a rat it would burrow into your very being. Yes you die, but before that your blood will turn black and your body will be torn asunder.

Demonic Pyro

If you think about suicide, and are actually willing to do it... Don't, for the simple fact that you could instead run away. With running away if you wanted to then you could go back home instead of being... dead.

2/3 of the people that jumped off a bridge and survived said that on the way down they realized all their life problems are fixable.

Rebelnerd

yeah, what they say about it being a "permenant solution to a temporary problem" is usually true. and even if it is a big problem, what is suicide supposed to accomplish? if something is damaging your life, why do something that will damage it even more? if something breaks you try at least try to fix it before you just throw it away.

SoulRiser

Don't ever give up on the idea that your life might actually improve. The first 13 years of mine pretty much sucked in general (could have been worse though, I'm sure). But I never gave up because I knew it would get better. And now life is good. So good it was even worth going through the first 13 crappy years, because they helped make me who I am today.

Happy Camper

Suicide is not an enlightened act. It's not noble, it doesn't make you superior, and it's not romantic. It's delusional and short-sighted. It's also incredibly selfish. There's no easy way to do it and you're not guaranteed success.

The main reason I didn't commit suicide, apart from feeling selfish for even thinking about putting that on my Mom, is that there was no guarantee it would be successful. I'm not all that afraid of death. I'm not even that scared of becoming physically handicapped or having to roll around in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I'm scared to death I'll somehow suffer brain damage and not be able to think. If I tried to overdose, chances are I would fry my neurons and live. If I tried jumping off a roof or crashing a car, something could happen to my beloved brain and thought process. Then I might not be able to even try again depending on the damage done.

So yeah...scary things happen. Worse than death.

wsgosset

If you want to kill yourself, you obviously hate your life. If you hate your life, you probably realize something that other people haven't. For example, as you are reading this site, you have probably realized that school is stupid and that everyone expects everyone to lie about everything and that nobody really cares about you. You want to kill yourself because you realize that your society is stupid. If you kill yourself, society has succeeded in suppressing your dangerous thoughts.

whispers

I once tried to kill myself in fourth grade. Fortunetly, I just ate tomatoe leaves, which are, in a large enough quantity, lethal, but I thought one or two would off me. I didn't tell my parents, even though I was scared. Since school started, I have been much more suicidal, these episodes occuring about every week, sometimes more. But I have learned how to cope (in a less-tha-productive way, I might add), but I am still alive. Usually, I just depend on my anti-depressents and friends to make me feel better, but living with depression from a young age is hard to escape.

My advice to anyone feeling like they have no other option is this: You are loved Even if you don't feel it, most of your families would be devistated if you chose to end your life, and would forever wondered what they could have done to prevent your death.

.xstrike-anywherex.

Remember that the peace of death will eventually come for you. That no matter how much shit you go through, you have the same peaceful reward at the end. So why end it now? Why not wait to see where life takes you? You have an eternity of peace once you're gone, but you only have a limited time here. No need to advance it.

I personally find that it helps to go out in nature. Take a break from everything, find a peaceful place to go and stay there for a few hours. Sometimes when your mind is racing all it needs is a break, and it will give you time to cool down and decide if you really want to live or not.

And also think about how unfair it would be for you to have to kill yourself because of the world around you. Every little thing in nature has a butterfly effect, you're worth something and you need to know it.

Captain Ahab

Want a permanent solution to temporary problems?

Don't commit suicide. Drop out of society. Become a dumpster diver and live off welfare, but don't commit suicide.

Fuck this system. People have been mentally scarred, told they have limits in life beyond natural law. Well, fuck limits. If you want to do something, do it because you want to do it, not because you want to make money, and if you dont want to work, you dont have to. Just drop out.

thoughtmaker

this is something that everyone hears in their lifetime, but no one pays much attention to it. this is one of the best pieces of advice you can get (maybe not homelessness, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but doing what you love regardless of everything else)

achieve happiness, fuck the rest.

oh and i heard somewhere that one can only really start living when one has seriously considered suicide. when you realize that life is just for fun and has no real point, then and only then can you truly live without letting things get in the way.

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Hugs - When we are hugged we feel a close connection to another human being. On the other hand, it is the intenseness of feeling alone which is one of the biggest contributors to feeling suicidal. A hug is nature's way of helping us feel connected.

Life sucks, then you die - If you don’t see the point in living, then you’re missing the point of life entirely. The point of life is to enjoy it.

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