re: Do you know someone who committed suicide?

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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.

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While there is truth to this statement, the people that is have known who committed suicide were not selfish people, they had fallen into a world of darkness and despair, hopelessness that seemed impenetrable.

Often people convince themselves that their loved ones and friends (if they even think they have any) will be better off without them. They never stop to think that their own suicide will cause those same people they love to question what they could have done better or how they let this happen.

Lost close family friend in '09. He couldn't take the fact that his Wife left him and was with some other guy.

My Mom tried a few times. The first couple were for attention IMO, this last time was the real deal. My sister just happened to get off work early and swing by to find her comatose. The ER staff said 10-15 more minutes and there would have been no saving her.

While not loved ones, we have had three employees kill them selves in the last 10 years. Odd for a company of less than twenty people.

It sucks.

Found my dad when I was 13. He killed him self in the backyard when my mom and sisters left to go pick up Christmas stuff and it was just he and I there. I can vividly remember all of it. I've felt depression before, likely stemming from this; but I was never deep enough to actually want to kill myself. People that say it's selfish don't know what's going through the mind of someone like this. My dad was a great father until about a year before it all happened he went off the rails. He was abusive to my mom and kept threatening to do if. I wouldn't even go sleep at my friends houses out of fear he'd either beat the shite out of my mom or kill himself. Then it actually happened. We have to do better when it comes to treating and understanding mental illness.

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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.

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you're fricking clueless

Several.

like anything else you cannot generalize suicide
my older cousin shot himself a few years ago after struggling with debilitating back pain and subsequent opiate addiction for the better part of his adult life. His body was so deformed by multiple surgeries and such he was literally living hell on earth

I do not judge him not do I judge anyone else
it's your life and your decision
yes you leave people behind but so does any death intentional or not

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It is the most selfish thing a human can do

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Well yes and no. If I were to commit suicide I'd be doing my wife and daughter a huge favor.

My daughter would soon forget me and my wife would find another lover.

It's a win/win.

Sorry for your (OP) and everyone else's losses here.

Lost a sibling here. Then years later the grieving associated SO.

I haven't. But I have had two cluster migraines in my life, and I seriously can see how someone in pain would want to end it. Those scare me just typing this.