re: People say that suicide is a cowardly act

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I’m going to be taking a break from posting on here for a while.

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You should

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What is cowardly is struggling through each day in absolute misery but knowing you are too big of a pussy to end it.

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What an idiotic thing to say.

Anyone reading this crap that is having a hard time, it's not somehow brave or strong to end your life. What you're going through right now is tough but you're tougher and IT WILL GET BETTER. This is only temporary. You're not a burden to anyone, quite the opposite you make others lives better with little things you don't notice because you're in pain and confused.

Suicide in neither coragious nor weakness. It's a lie, it doesn't stop the pain it only transfers it to someone else. It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Wait and see how you feel tomorrow.

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It’s odd to me how people have more sympathy for the loved ones of people killing themselves than the people who actually go through it and do it. But given the state of mental health in this country I’m not surprised

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The people left behind are still in pain...the person who killed themselves problems are over. If there are kids involved it is especially selfish...worse than abandoning them because it speaks volumes about how little the suicide valued their own life, they could not possibly value the life of anyone else. Leaving a child to wonder what they did or didnt do is the most self centered, selfish act a person can do. In my opinion.

Suicide is like a bomb going off. The bomb disappears and everything around it is hurt. It is selfish.

Human beings are, by and large, herd animals. We need one another to be happy and to even survive. Suicide outside of ending one's suffering related to actual physical pain, say terminal cancer with no hope, is a testament to the self-centered, narcissistic nature of the suicide. Most of us live a sizeable portion of our lives serving others and do so because we want to do it, not because it is expected or we are getting something other than self satisfaction from it. It is a big part of human nature. If a person is not doing this there is most likely something seriously amiss in their lives that they should make a concerted effort to correct. Outside of being terminally ill and in unbearable pain there is something an individual can do for another person which will provide the doer with great satisfaction unless they are simply an a-hole. Feed the hungry. Volunteer at church. Pick up trash on the road. Be nice to people. Stop focusing on yourself all of the time and you will find that most people will return the favor. It doesn't matter what one is going through short of severe physical pain which can't be alleviated that can't be tolerated if they will get outside of themselves and interact with others in a positive manner. Life is a gift from whatever you choose to believe but it is a gift...and it is short. Everyone has issues from time to time...its part of being alive...but taking one's life is, in most cases, a selfish act of a person who cares less for others than they do for themselves.