Does it baffle you how a person could actually commit suicide, or can you relate?

Question

A girl in my town committed suicide two nights ago. This girl was beautiful, with 3 great children under the age of 10, and a seemingly happy life.

I just can't really comprehend what it must feel like to hate living so much that you'd rather be dead.

Isn't life EVERYTHING?

Answer 1

Don't commit suicide. It will get better. Trust the Lord.

Answer 2

I can relate, to an extent. Sometimes you're in a situation where it's just impossible to see how things could possibly get better. I've been there. It's not fun.

Suicide is ultimately a stupid choice, but I try not to judge those who do it. I just think about how hard life must have been for them to be so desperate.

In the case of this woman, I don't understand what would have driven her to that point, but something did. It makes me really sad.

I now do enjoy life immensely and don't want it to end, not now or in eighty years. But five years ago I was in a different place. Maybe that's why I sympathize.

Answer 3

I was suicidal when I was about 16. My family life was pretty bad and very religious. Everything I did my mom said I was bringing the devil into my life and our house (I wasn't). I have always had a bad relationship with her and she told me she wished I had never been born (she almost miscarried me and was mad she didn't). I was fortunate enough to have a friend that told a guidance counselor at school. Looking back now, I can't imagine giving up on life. There is no problem too big that cannot be remedied!

Answer 4

It doesn't baffle me in the least.

If you can not possibly understand it, be thankful that you have never felt so desperate, so dreadful of having to go on another day that you would welcome death.

I can understand and appreciate your confusion. I am thankful that you are not like those other people who are angry with suicide victims, calling them selfish or cowardly. What a thoughtless and ignorant thing to say; it shows complete lack of empathy. Anyone who would take their own life is obviously in the most extreme of all anguish.

It can be doubly confusing when the person appears to have an idyllic life with everything going for them. But remember, what goes on under the surface can be far more complex than the simple material facade.

Answer 5

I can understand suicides. Science is finding out that mental illness has a physical cause, i.e. chemical imbalance or injury to the brain.

I also believe that our modern and unnatural environment is causing havoc with our nervous systesm. TV, electromagnetic radiation, traffic jams, pollution, hectic life style, poor nutrition, pre-natal drug use, early immunization of infants with multiple innoculations at once, etc etc is creating a 'syndrome' of physical conditions that create depression, ocd, adhd....

We, as a society, need to really examine how we raise our children and what we expose them to before assuming suicide is just a character flaw.

Do you agree?

Answer 6

It seems that people might choose to do this if they are somehow absolutely exhausted ad don't want to carry on due to pain, mental etc. Some would say there is more to life than what we see, but it I think there could always be a reason to continue. Perhaps she was very unhappy with her family situation, and for some reason separation couldn't be an option for her.

Answer 7

Something clicks in their brains - I think. They are not well - mentally. A woman from my church committed suicide a few years ago. She had a great husband and a loving community. Depression took over. There were several attempts - and her husband tried to make sure she was always looked after - but she finally managed to do it. So sad.

Yes - to me - life is EVERYTHING!!

Answer 8

Some people are just so hurt and broken, that the thought of continuing on is too much to bear.

It is a travesty.

I thought about it as a teenager growing up in a religious environment, but thankfully never carried through. I can somewhat understand what these people struggle with though.

Answer 9

I isn't drawn on 'repenting' or 'sin' yet people attempting suicide can truthfully exchange their minds and think of it wasn't the form of competent concept regardless of each and everything. it fairly is borne out via the testimony of persons who've chosen a 'rapid' approach - leaping from a tall development - and survived via touchdown on some thing. generally, they replaced their minds halfway by way of their fall.

Answer 10

> can you relate?
I can relate.

> a seemingly happy life.
The "economics of suicide" may be stated thus:
"The happiness and rewards in life aren't worth the efforts of obtaining them."

> Isn't life EVERYTHING?
Not when it's frustration and torture without any relief in sight.

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