Just wondering. There's so many suicides in the world but it seems like no one knows anyone who has actually done it. Or at least that's my perception.
I know of this kid in high school who did it, but I never really knew him. I said maybe 10 words to him. When he died, no one even knew. I think I'm the only one that still thinks of him. So sad...
2006-10-22 16:28:18 · 22 answers · asked by yes1guy1no 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Yes, it's been 19 years ago, and I don't like to think about it. My aunt (my mother's sister) was only 47 when she took her own life. She shot herself through the heart, perhaps symbolic of the pain she felt. She and her husband had separated three months before, and she was distraught. When she learned from a "friend" that he had started dating again, "moved on" so to speak, she said she knew he was never coming back now (her hope lost), and she announced, "I might as well kill myself!"--. She hung up the phone, her friend called back, and after not getting an answer, called the police. It was too late.
This affected me adversely for a while, and I took it to heart more so than others because I too, was alone and single, and dealing with some kind of "mid-life" crisis, though I was only 33 at the time. With counseling and medication I was OK. But it still fills me with so much sadness when I think about it. My father had died from a terminal illness a few years earlier. Still, I had never know the depth of sadness I felt when my aunt died. I empathized to the point of internalizing my grief, as if I had a right to it. My counselor said I was extremely compassionate, overly so, but couldn't understand my attachment to the grief. But that is my experience with it, that way. I also had a next-door neighbor (we lived in an attached apartment building) who was always trying to kill herself when I was little by cutting her wrists(my mother cleaned up after her once when this happened) ;finally she did kill herself, a few years later, with a handgun and when she died, I recalled from when I was younger, how gory and thoughtless I felt the whole suicide mess was.
2006-10-22 17:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by deonne r 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my son, this spring. I didn't think I knew anyone who knew had experienced knowing someone who committed suicide, but when I told people of my experience a surprising number of folk knew of suicides. In general, it is not talked about, and younger people are often not told the truth about deaths until they are older. That may explain why no one you talk to seems to know of such occasions. It is good that you are sad about such an unhappy death.
2006-10-22 16:38:15 · answer #2 · answered by upside down senior 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, search in Yahoo the American stats to see how unusually high the rates are for one group. . .The white male. Maybe younger people are not told the truth about deaths until they are older. That may explain why no one you talk to seems to know of such occasions. It is good that you are sad about such an unhappy death. It is time to ask yourself why is this happening.
2006-10-22 17:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had a close friend in 7th grade who committed suicide. Its was very sad. It was hard to get through it. I am sure other people think about him too. Its just not a subject to bring up at the lunch table.
2006-10-22 16:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by angel l 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes actually just happened last month.
Have you ever jokingly put your fingers to your head and acted like you pulled the trigger? Well alot of people do that and I used to as well, put after someone you know has done the real thing, you will never do that again.
2006-10-22 16:35:45 · answer #5 · answered by xoxo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My cousin John killed himself in his brother's bedroom with a shotgun when he was 17. My friend Harold, who suffered from severe diabetes shot himself through the heart. Another friend of mine Greg, a vietnam vet, OD'd on heroin - they aren't sure if it was a suicide or accidental but talking to him he knew he was killing himself all along and told me, just that he couldn't stop - and he couldn't, so I guess in a way this was suicide anyway.
2006-10-22 22:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes I have known more than one person who has done this.....but when someone in my immerdiate family did it--it totally blew me away.
the one thing with suicide is how much pain and guilt it leaves behind it-maybe you should have done this or that-why didnt you notice something was wrong ect...
it is ok to be sad-and it is a lesson learned at how precious life is and how we all need to be a little kinder to each other while we are her.
You are not at fault in anyway-he is in a better place now-whatever his sufferring was it is gone-only those left behind will have to deal with his loss. You sound like a kind person. I am sure he appreciated you talking to him however short it was.....
2006-10-22 16:49:37 · answer #7 · answered by lynn8953 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of my best friends blew his head off right after we graduated. I can't say why he did it, but his parents to know. Other than that I promised I would never tell.
The second best friend was into self mutilazation and killed herself from cutting to deep and bleed out.
She left a daughter and many people with unanswered question.. to why and why she didn't get help.
2006-10-22 16:56:42 · answer #8 · answered by dee luna 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that is sad and maybe hes trying to work through you to talk to other kids .yes i knew of someone but probably never said more than hi but can still see after 2o years what they look like in my head.
2006-10-22 16:46:37 · answer #9 · answered by Gypsy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, unfortunately. When I was practice teaching in 8th grade, my 8th grader hung himself. We had 3 family friends to committ suicide-by gun and by lethal drug combo. A friend in high school shot herself in the face with a shotgun. And, yes, I am in therapy.
2006-10-22 16:32:13 · answer #10 · answered by catzrme 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋