Have you ever considered suicide?

[CheesusCrust]

No I haven't and I never will. Those who do are foolish.

 

[Neonbob]

I have. Within the past 7 months, for the most part. The only thing that stopped me from following through with any of the methods were as follows.
-I don't have the patience to sit in a garage for however long I'd need to.
-I hate heights, and refuse to even consider that.
-I'm incapable of using a needle on myself, let alone a knife.
-We do not have guns in the house.
-Anything that would involve damaging stuff my parents own is out of the question, so no vehicular deaths...
And lastly
-I really want to hold true to the promise I made to myself years ago when I was thinking about suicide. I would like to go out in a really novel way. Such as a body catapult that would launch me into a set of razor wire. That would be cool. And it'd take a long time to make, too.

 

[GlassWolf]

I have considered suicide and thought about what the quickest way would be, but I never actually tried it.

 

[higgs20]

nope, i think i would miss being alive too much, plus i'm far to young to be that depressed.

 

[5ilver]

I recomennd using the hobbies your friend has to distract him. Really, distraction and giving him a bit more time is all you can do. I don't think there's any way he can "recover" if he's decided he wants to die- a psychiatric ward is only going to make things worse.

I guess you have to weigh his happiness and freedom vs his life and decide which you value more. An unavoidable choice, sadly. GL

 

[ArcticAssault74]

i do alot, but then i think dying wouldn't help. i don't have advice, i geuss you could talk it out, just find someone close to you.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Sure. A person in my family died recently and I have contemplated it after that.

But I realize that would bring even more pain to my family and I can't let them down now.

 

[AvsJoe]

Yeah, I was pretty depressed for a small chunk of grade school and high school. At one point I was pressing down on my skin (down the block, not across the road) with a large knife but I chickened out. No really, I was too much of a coward to take the coward's way out.

Anyway I have since changed my views on life and no longer put myself in a position to be disappointed. I haven't thought seriously of suicide since.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Sure. A person in my family died recently and I have contemplated it after that.

But I realize that would bring even more pain to my family and I can't let them down now.

Not just your family... your Escapist nerdy buddies too!

 

[chocolatekake]

Actually, I think about it quite often. You know, death is nothing bad. I don't fear death (pain, yes, but not death). I don't believe in any afterlife, so death, to me, is just...nothingness. Eternal silence without sentience or awareness. And seeing as life often is painful, "nothing" often seems more attractive than "pain" (as in, emotional pain).
The thing is, I just don't see much meaning in my life. For example, I'm a top grade student, but when I think about it...it doesn't mean anything. However, society wants me to pursue accomplishments such as good grades, a good job, etc. I don't want to lead such a life with shallow goals, but in order to survive in this world, I have to. I usually spend my days going to school and then being online, just waiting for the day to end and the next one to begin. The repetitiveness is depressing. And always reminding myself not to ponder too much (because it's frustrating) isn't fun, either.

But then again, as long as I can always die but only live a single time, I don't have the guts to kill myself, even though there are completely painless methods.
Oh well, maybe I just need somebody to love. (Now I can't get Jefferson Airplane out of my head)

I'm now waiting for those people who always say "Stop being an angsty kid" whenever someone talks about something like that on the internet.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

No kidding.

Yeah sure. seems to be worse some parts of the month than others (and not because of a period >> shesh >>). and its not just because of some life changing experience, because i havent had many of those. i dont because its against my religion and i havent found a fool proof way to do it (besides ODing on something stupid like Advil)

Not to mention you'd have to take a shitload of Advil.

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

Thought about it, thought REALLY hard about it, got really drunk and almost went for it. *shrugs* I dunno, seems to me anybody who's led a life worth hearing about has at least gotten close to the brink once or twice, maybe even tried it.

As for advice? I'm reminded of Titus' being berated by his dad when he's discovered with the nooses around his neck, suicidal over a girl not giving a natter. His father simply leaves him there with the reply "Go ahead and do it, wussy. Then, when you're dead and buried (she) can go visit the graveyard with her new boyfriend and do it on your grave." Motivational words, there...

 

[Tdc2182]

Thought about it.

Got the "equipment" out for it and everything, just to see how far I would go before I chickened out, then I thought about why people kill themselves and told myself I should man up because my problems were not as insane as others.

Haven't tought about it since.

 

[Nemesis729]

Yes, but then I get out of school and it goes away

 

[HieronymusLush]

Life is like a movie, if you sat through the first half and it completely sucked, it's probably not gonna get really good right at the end.

 

[chocolatekake]

I've thought about how it's an easy way out. I've never considered it seriously.

Why? Because of my mother and father. In my case, my parents are divorced, but they love me and have treated me amazingly well. I couldn't do that to them. To have them discover my dead body or have to clean up after my suicide, I could NEVER EVER do that to them.

Plus, suicide is for pussies. It's called the easy way out for a reason. My advice to anyone considering suicide would be to live your life one day at a time. Everyone has problems, we all need to find ways to deal with them and just muster the courage to keep going. If you need medication, talk with a doctor. Depression and anxiety are very common these days.

Try some new hobbies. Get out there and people watch if you have no money. Go to a park, appreciate the good things in life

Put your problems and your life in perspective, it's never that bad.

Ask someone who's ever seriously thought about it and backed away, then tell me it's an easy way out. I'd say it takes just as much guts to kill yourself as anyone else.

 

[cannot_aim]

I never have, I have thought about going around and killing a bunch of people that I really hate but from what I've read here thats not that unusual.

I did unfortunatley know someone who killed himself, he was my little brothers best friend, was baisically another brother to me, and he was only 15. He was a brilliant kid with a lot of friends and in a few years would have been able to hand pick his school, I still have no idea why he did it. That was a bad period in all our lives.

I don't really have any advice for people who are thinking about it or who know someone who is thinking about it besides just always be there for your friends and try and remind them that life always turns around.

 

[William Dickbringer]

I've considered how I'd do it if I did it, but I never seriously considered actually doing it.

This (your avatar creeped me out a little)