have you ever considered...

mentos_007 · Aug 28, 2004

... a suicide? I'm just asking, I know that it may be an odd topic, but today I read an article about people who committed... I mean the tried but somebody rescued them. It was really scary! What do you thing about it? Have you ever read something about it?

danalec99 · Aug 28, 2004

Yes.

Long long time ago, when I was in school.. may be 8th or 9th grade. ... poor marks in one of the papers. Tried to get electrocuted... but something in me pulled me back.

I would now NEVER consider suicide as a way out. Its stupid. Suicide is another way of saying, "I am yeilding to you oh mighty Failure!".

Karalee · Aug 28, 2004

I think after youve gotten some perspective, you always feel like its such a dumb decision, but in the moment, it always seems like a good option.

MDowdey · Aug 28, 2004

maybe once.....or four times... :lol:

md

Alison · Aug 28, 2004

Yes, in highschool I lost my best friend to suicide. At age 13 you really don't have any coping mechanisms and I thought it would be a good way out of a really bad situation. Thank goodness I am still here today.

Osmer_Toby · Aug 28, 2004

i think about it all the time.

terri · Aug 28, 2004

Osmer_Toby said:
i think about it all the time.

That had better not be true! :? Or I'll kick your ass and won't take a picture of your poor dead body!! :x

I've never thought about it, for me. I knew TWO people back in high school who killed themselves. One was a confused druggie who kinda did it while he was stoned; we're not sure it was intentional. But the other was an amazingly bright boy, sweet, thoughtful, funny, he wore thick horn-rimmed glasses and didn't get the girls, but he and I were good buddies for years - he was just totally brilliant....sat in his parent's car and left the engine running in an enclosed garage. I was stunned then; I still am when I think about it. To this day I am nauseated that he didn't call me when he was at that point, and I'll always wonder if I could have talked him through the moment.... Matthew D. Why, sweetie, why??? I'll never get past it, I guess. A freaking waste of a beautiful mind.

Alison · Aug 28, 2004

Terri, I completely understand. I talked with Jason just hours before he put a gun to his head. I carried that guilt with me for years.

voodoocat · Aug 28, 2004

I've never thought about it. Never really been depressed like that. Had my ups and downs like everyone else.

One guy I worked with (didn't know him that well) was the guy that logged onto a chat room and proceeded to overdose while on his webcam.

photogoddess · Aug 28, 2004

Never ever ever! So many other was to deal and cope with pain...

pilgrim · Aug 28, 2004

I have been deeply, deeeeeeeply depressed, which was a side effect from some medication I was on, but suicide never crossed my mind. Like photogoddess says, there are other ways to cope with it, eventually I came off the medication and my depression went away.
hows that quote go... "suicide is a permanent answer for a temporary problem"

Luminosity · Aug 28, 2004

My dads best friend commited suicide about 27 years ago....and my mums friend took her life about 5 years ago. Eileen had four young kids : at the time it happened they were 12 , 9 and one year old twins so my heart broke for them.

And I tried and nearly succeeded .. back when I was a messed up kid tryin to cope with a lotta stuff at 15.
Took an whole lot of pills before goin to bed ...woke up about 4 hours later , knowing that I was slowly dying and groggily reviewed the two decisions that faced me :
Stay in bed and continue giving up my life.
Or get up and live.
So I got up and went and woke my mother.
Was in intensive care at the hospital for a week.
And learnt one of the best lessons of my life.

pilgrim · Aug 28, 2004

Luminosity said:
My dads best friend commited suicide about 27 years ago....and my mums friend took her life about 5 years ago. Eileen had four young kids : at the time it happened they were 12 , 9 and one year old twins so my heart broke for them.

And I tried and nearly succeeded .. back when I was a messed up kid tryin to cope with a lotta stuff at 15.
Took an overdose before goin to bed ...woke up about 4 hours later , knowing that I was slowly dying and groggily reviewed the two decisions that faced me :
Stay in bed and continue giving up my life.
Or get up and live.
So I got up and went and woke my mother.
Was in intensive care at the hospital for a week.
And learnt one of the best lessons of my life.

woah lumi, gave my shivers just reading it.

Luminosity · Aug 28, 2004

Eh , I'm sorry Pilgrim :flower:.
A lot of people find it too personal to talk about and I contemplated on whether I should post it...but I think if ya go through somethin like that and learn somethin from it... then pass the lesson on. So so many amazing moments in my life I have stopped and remembered that if I had stayed in bed that night that I would've missed out on SO much to come...

This is gonna sound wierd but ya know what woke me ?
A song was playing on the radio...I THINK it was 'Let Love Rule' by Lenny Kravitz....BUT my senses were so distorted from the overdose that it sounded like angels singing to me and thats the sound I woke up to :shock: lol.

terri · Aug 28, 2004

And I tried and nearly succeeded .. back when I was a messed up kid tryin to cope with a lotta stuff at 15.

:hug: I'm so glad you forced yourself to move....you got yourself through your own bad moment....not everybody does. And that's probably why you're so strong and beautiful today, you know? You stared it down and won that battle.

I'm SO glad. :love: What would we do without our Lumi-babe??

Terri, I completely understand. I talked with Jason just hours before he put a gun to his head. I carried that guilt with me for years.

Yeah, Ali....I guess what I felt WAS guilt, even though I hadn't talked with him that day, like what you went through. Jesus. I was profoundly puzzled, confused, and heartsick that he hadn't even bothered, and he just wasn't there to ask WHY, you know? And I was really pissed off at him, too. It kind of sucks, to be so angry at a dead person. I stayed in my room the day of his funeral...his family was Jewish and very private, and I don't think any of his goy friends were even asked. The whole thing was pretty awful. ::sigh:: Matt.....