taking your life?

Question

have you ever thought about it and is anyone here who is a little more broadminded and tolerant and actually believes that this is not always the wrong way. i'm not considering doing this, i'd just like to hear your thoughts. and if anyone who is being suicidal's reading this, please stop. i don't want to be a negative influence and remember you are always responsible for your own actions

thanks

Answer 1

as we were not empowered to give our life; that is our birth, we have no right to take our life.
life comes and goes which is natural.

Answer 2

I am broadminded. However, death is final. It is not ever the best option. The life has its own cycle. How can one ever live to their fullest if they take their life early? Maybe the happiness was just around the corner. You seem pessimistic. I am optimistic...and also realistic. If you burn your house down it is gone. It won't ever be there again. If you kill yourself that is it...over! I think the undertone of your message is that you really are trying to influence hopeless people to end their lives. I can easily read between the lines of what your saying. You need to search your soul. There are some issues you have. Please, work on you. Yes, we are all accountable and responsible for ourselves, but we also are responsible for the influence we have on others. There are children, mentally ill people, depressed people, etc that saying things in a certain way may lead them to feeling hopeless and worthless. The words and actions we put out from ourselves effects others. We can choose to make the world better and help others...or we can choose to be a bad influence. What do you choose and why? That may be the question you want to ask yourself to see why you are putting such a negative suggestion out there for those who feel hopeless.

Answer 3

This is a very touchy subject as we all know, certainly by law here in Canada, it is one's right to "terminate thier life" but that doesn't make it right and that doesn't make the problems go away.
It has been my experience that when someone wants to end thier life, it usually means a permanent solution to ending the darkness, the pain, but not really knowing what happens next isn't really considered, and if it is, it is insignificant and holds not as much importance as just making "it stop"

many people think that if they would have "reached out" sooner, or at least gave the person an option to consider opening up to them, they would have stopped the suicide. That is a myth, and most people who are suicidal, are either reaching out becuase they want to be stopped, but most cases they want to tell someone who won't judge them, and most times, you cannot change a person's mind IF they are determined and see no other option.
Most times they think they have exhausted every option, and suicide is the last resort. If you ever have an opportunity to talk with someone that wants to end thier life, talking about it, and what method they are going to choose, puts things in better perspective, it makes the reality more real, and in no way shape or form does it encourage someone. It shows that you are understanding and sympathetic and non judemental, but no way does it show that you are encouraging or supporting the act or the person to carry out such a thing... ( this is a big myth)
People who want to end thier lives WANT to talk about it, they hate it when people tap dance around the subject and when others are uncomfortable, they feel like they are judged and no one understands them.
This is a good conversational question and perhaps if we talked about it and tried to understand abit better, perhaps suicides would be less.

Suicide is never an answer, it certainly does cause problems for those who are left behind, and in some cases, suicide is leaves a legacy; a brother , sister, mother or father who can't cope with the unanswered questions and resons why , they inturn try to commit suicide, or contemplate it... it isn't uncommon to have more than one suicide in a family.

If you ever see changes in your friends, or family, take notice and mention it to them. Invite them for a coffee or tea, get to know your children, inform them, inform yourself.

God Bless,
Shannon

Answer 4

I have in the past... but mostly I thought about cutting myself. The reason being was this: I was hurting so much on the inside (marital issues) that I started to think that I needed to feel the pain on the outside, so I can see the hurt with my eyes, and know that it will heal up and get better. I didn't cut myself nor kill myself (obviously) and I sat down with a notebook and wrote a lot, crying.

I get, from time to time, where I hurt super bad and the thought is there briefly for like 2 seconds, but it goes away. I'm working on positive mental attititude stuff.

Answer 5

I'm about as broad-minded as they come ... but taking one's own life ... well, I just can't bring myself to believe that committing suicide would be the "right" way to solve one's problems in life. I do, and always will, consider suicide to be the "easy way out".

This is not an inexperienced view, as I, myself, have tried taking my own life. I now see things in a whole different light.

I've witnessed what taking one's own life can do to the ones left behind. My cousin committed suicide many years ago ... his mother near lost her mind, to the point of trying to take her own life ... and she has never been the same since. Not only did he take his mother's will to live ... her took her soul. She's totally devoid of feelings ... she lives life as though she can't wait to leave this world. She has become a hermit ... meaning she doesn't allow anyone in her home, even family.

One has to comprehend the total devastation of a family unit, when they choose to be selfish ... yes, selfish. This is what I consider suicide to be. Nothing in life is so bad that it can't be fixed or something that someone can adjust to ... NOTHING.

What doesn't kill you, will only make you STRONGER ........

Answer 6

Hi

i have experiensed that in the past , but i just survived because of God wish only , i can advice you stop thinking in who you are , but think what you can do to become the greatest person in the whole earth , and thats you , allwayes the succesful persons came from the ashes & troubles by the hard way.

Answer 7

Thing is...people always think their problems are worse than everyone elses..it is but only because it's them and theirs.Everyone has thoughts that make you wonder..where did that come from-but you have to use good judgement and trash the garbage.One thing for sure NOTHING WE DO....EFFECTS ONLY US..if you have anyone or anything you care about...consider them in what you do...there is more at stake than someones feelings....

Answer 8

I've thought of it. I am always stopped by the fact that my problems are not stronger than me. I am in control of everything in my life, I also don't know what the future holds. My life gets better with every year that passes.

Answer 9

Darwin got something right. The weak ones dont survive. But the strange thing about that in todays society is that the only thing that makes them weak enough to die-is their own opinion. They are the only ones who thin themselves from the herd. People are a strange species, we are the most self-pitying species in existance.

Answer 10

I have some times wished I was dead, but have never actually been thinking about ending my life by killing myself. To me it is a matter of faith, I don't think it is my right to decide when I will die. And I would not do it to my family and friends

Answer 11

yes I have thought about it, But I don't want to burn in hell for it. I didn't give my life and I can't take it away. You need to seek God if you think this way. There is SOO much to live for.