Anyone Attempted Suicide?

Probably not an easy topic to discuss, but I'm curious if anyone has and if so how?

 

I've thought about it many times and still do from time to time, but I've never actually attempted it.

 

The thought would never even enter my mind, although I have wondered on occasion what it would be like to be dead



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no

it is too final....

if you feel like commiting suicide....DON'T....GET HELP.....It will be too final and you will never experience that pot of gold that may be waiting for you some day.......

pot of gold to mean many things.....figuritively

 

I want to know how normal it is to contemplate it? because I think about it a lot, only had a few attempts

 

Normal? Not sure it is normal to think about nor attempt to off yourself.


Read something from the families of those who committed suicide, if you want info...read about the pain and legacy the person left behind them.

 

I have never tried to commit suicide but I have laid down with the intent to die as though from some effort of will I could abandon my life. Obviously it didn't work. I did take from it though that death is not a solution for what was ailing me.

 

Dealing with the legacy of death is always painful no matter how it comes. I don't think you can guilt trip people into choosing life.

 

I believe the legacy suicide leaves behind is worse than most. I'm not sure I was guilt tripping anyone, but feel if someone poses a question about suicide, that is an area they should read about. If feeling guilty means you care enough about those who care for you not to hurt them...then ok.

 

Worse than most is a spin you put on it in a statement of belief. I don't by the idea that some forms of dying are more noble than others. My own experience being personally close to the issue is that is not the case but I don't entertain the same belief that you do. We all create temporary conditions for ourselves to the extent we are able. We are liable only for our own condition although we share our conditions with others.

 

I wasn't trying to spin anything, actually and very much unfortunately I was speaking from experience. Noble is not the word I was even thinking of for any of this.

 

Not accusing you of anything. We cannot escape the emotional effects of our own thinking however. Not saying you are trying to put a spin on things but that we are spun into views of the world by virtue of our own beliefs. Your discomfort comes from interpretation of fact or the things you think the event means to you or what it suggests about them in the associations of your own mind, not the fact itself. It is by virtue of the nature of condition that I make the comment about being more noble in that the converse of that is more damaging, even though you didn't mean to suggest it, that specter appears. I make the point that more damaging is not a fact of nature but a personal recognizance. I do not encourage suicide but I disagree with the assessment that somehow the suicidal are guilty parties, guilty of causing a legacy of damage in excess of what is comfortably allowed. Suicide is a criminal act in some jurisdictions and I think this adds insult to injury. There is certainly the perception of personal tragedy involved at some level in committing the act. I don't mean to deny you of your discomfort but to say you can be relieved forever of it if you so desire.

 

i think it's more common than most people think. i lost my cousin to suicide.

 

Definitely more common than you think.

 

Suicide has been a powerful theme in my life, but only the ideation, never attempted it. In fact I am blocked from doing it by my care for those who care for me. I would know it would cause a tremendous amount of harm to a great many sentient beings, so any suffering this one sentient being is suffering must simply be endured (unless its truly in extremis).

 

Never tried, thought about it many times, but last few years ive felt a lot better....and it would not be something id fail at if I wanted to.

People who try and fail...

Shotgun to the heart would not fail. I would not fail.

Thankfully these thoughts don't cloud my mind anymore.

 

I committed suicide last month.

 

I see you had quite the photo-op




blow flies, coffin bugs, and carrion beetles on a skull after one month of decomposition



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