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as a person who has attempted suicide myself i am curious. who else has and why? you are rpobably wondering why i want to know, and i am not sure...i have been thinking about it again for myself but it was like God sprayed me with mace and told me to snap out of it...anyway, i guess this is more like a how did you convince yourself not to kind of question.

I know someone who probobly would if she hadden't promised so many ppl she wouldn't- or she might @ least seriosly consider it...

WIth all the problems I've faced growing up I'm surprised that thought has never once crossed my mind. I guess what kept me from thinking it is that, sure your life may be sucking now, but how can it get any better if you don't allow it to? Sometimes people go through a really tough period and just jump the conclusion that no one cares or understands. Where in reality, there are so many who can easily relate.

Also, another thing that has kept me from the thought is among the same concept as my last. If I decided to kill myself, then I was only taking the easy way out. Anyone can die, but to me living takes true courage. The decisions I make in result will affect the many lives of people around me (family and friends).


Lastly I think many get their ideas to do so by thinking negatively. When someone is depressed about one issue, it's easy to feed yourself lies that no one cares and etc. That only leads to more and more negative energy. Even if we do have friends, we lie to ourselves that they don't care or whatever...

I wish people would jump conclusions so easily and put more faith in God. And that if people would only talk more about what is bugging them, then it would lift such a heavy burden off their shoulders. Personally, I would hate to throw away the precious gift of life that God has given me... that's just my thoughts...

One of my cousins successfully(although I would rather think that the word successful in this context to be tinged with more than a bit of irony)committed
suicide a couple years back by hanging herself in her garage.She had mental
problems and it seems that it was something that she did on the spur of the moment.

For my part, it was the realization it couldn't achieve its goals. If what you want is a release from emotional pain, how will you know you've been released from it if you're dead? Logically, it didn't make sense.

shooraijin wrote:If what you want is a release from emotional pain, how will you know you've been released from it if you're dead? Logically, it didn't make sense.

Very few things make sense logically. "Logically," it doesn't make sense that we exist at all.

The reason that I have never seriously thought about suicide is that if I did it would cause so much pain to so many people. Also, there has never been any thing in my life that i didnt know would just blow over in a few days and be better again.

Suicide is never really rational,for the most part.

I've never gone as far as attempting it, but I've contemplated it on a day-to-day basis a couple of years ago. But my reason for even thinking about it was pretty selfish.

I didn't do it because 1. I absolutely HATE pain and I was scared of dying 2. I couldn't bear the thought of upsetting my mom and brother. 3. I'm an extremely competitive person and didn't want to give Satan the satisfaction.

When I realized that I actually was depressed cause I had most of the symptoms of it, I gave up trying to stop feeling upset all the time. And then one day I had my pastor pray for me. It was a supernatural healing of a broken heart and three days later, I noticed a major change!