Here's my question: Why do people decides to takes their own lives?

I'm bothered by suicide as of late. Up to this year, few teens decided to takes their own lives, due to the bullying that was taken place in school. Why do they think that suicide is the answer to escape their pain?

I once tried to take my own life when I was young. Well I was in mourning over my grandfather's death. Just to thinking that if I decides to take my own life, I'd see my grandfather again in the after life.

Now I'm doing better. I have no suicide thoughts. I have to be strong when the ones that you hold so dear in your hearts passed. So suicide is never the best answer to escape their pain.

Do you have someone you know that felt the same way?

 

I *knew* someone who *diod* same sad thing..

His name was Gerald Goode, and I knew him during my days in the Cleveland Police Department. He was a Sergeant...A "cop's cop", minmd you.....there is archival footage opf his dashcam vids making arrests & such...right outta "COPS".. .and we *always* used to converse about my international travels & joke about my love of Heavy Metal (He'd make cracks like "Commie Pinko Noise" & such; I used to sing the opening bars of Nirvana's "Lithium", etc.)


To make a long story short, for reasons known only to him, in October 1999, he did The KURT COBAIN...


...and that's NOT a dance!





He just happened to be a number....a statistic....inn regards to One Of The Major Professions Where The Employees Commit Suicide The Most..












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Since everybody is different and the dead can't speak on the issue, we can't really get an answer unless they left a letter and a letter won't provide as much info as being analyzed in person(assuming that they would say anything whle being analyzed). Sometimes, there may be nothing to help the person escape whatever pain they are going through, and even if there is a way to escape it, they may not be motivated to put in the work. Getting someone's mind off of suicide is a difficult task I assume and whether or not and how long it takes to be effective varies from person to person.

I remember one dude from high school killed himself a couple years ago. I didn't actually know him so it didn't affect me. Just had him in weight training in 10th grade, but some of my friends knew him so it was still sad.

 

Because we're a pussy generation in country of cowards. I get life is hard and I even admit to having suicidal thoughs myself but trust me during the holocaust and even during slavery people weren't trying to offf themselves at the rate people do it now even though they have way more to live for. We're a bunch of impatient entitled assholes who want to give up when things aren't perfect. When's the last time you saw a lion or any animal in the wild kill themselves? That's because life is worth living and if you don't get that maybe you shouldn't be here.
Rant over.

 

Do animals even understand the concept of suicide?

 

I think they get the concept of feeling pain and wanting it to stop but giving up never occurs to them. They fight till their last breath.

 

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A rational mind will never be able to comprehend the complexities of an irrational mind. While we can all probably sit here and come up with a million excuses for what can lead someone to commit such an act, we'll likely never be able to truly appreciate the thought process of someone who is capable of such an act.

Don't you have better things to focus your thoughts on?

 

Pretty and insightful how are you single again? You need to join my team

 

People have been killing themselves for many reasons in many cultures since time immemorial.

 

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Pardon me for not reading all the replies, but sometimes you feel like you're stuck in a rut and you don't know how to get out of it no matter how hard you try. You feel there are no other options. It tends to be a "when it rains it pours" feeling.

People call it a selfish act, I don't see it that way. It's cause they'll miss you. They don't know what pain you're in unless they're or they've been in your shoes.

 

This a VERY loaded ?, the truth is, THERE IS NO ANSWER. Back in Feb 09 my roommates, cousin (she was a friend of mine) hung herself. She called my friend Matt (her ex bf) and told him she wished things could go back to the way they use to, and then silence. My friend Matt thought something was wrong and left one of his friends houses to go check up on her. When he got there he went inside and found her. He had to cut her down and everything. I didnt find out about it until the next day. My friend (one of her cousins) came inside when I was getting ready to go to work and he was crying. I knew something was wrong because he's not one of those guys that cries. It mean to be real for a second with ya, I hurts to see anyone cry, but ESPECIALLY a grown ass man, it really cuts deep.

It was sad also because it was around her favorite time of the year Mardi Gras (anybody that knows the history of the US carnival/Mardi Gras knows the celebration started not in New Orleans but in Mobile,Al). The next couple of months was weird I mean we tried to carry on like nothing happen, but it was hard to hide it. I mean a couple of us would just start crying out of no where thinking about everything. You know that feeling you get when you think someone is there watching you but no ones there. I had that feeling for a couple weeks, it just felt like she was there. I feel as a young man(Im only 21) that the problem with ALOT of people, is people have this "entitlement syndrome". We feel like everything is just entitled to us when in all reality, AINT SHIT ON EARTH ENTITLED TO ANYBODY. Life is one of those crazy things, you can either live it and take it for what it is or get lost in the traffic of thinking what it should of been or what you expected it to be.

I also feel like with the whole entitlement thing, people when they think of death think of some old guy who is decrepit and senile. People forget you have ALOT of babies out here who dont even make it 1 fuckin day. Its seems like death, marriage, kids etc just came out of nowhere and hit me in the face. When the truth is people have always been getting married, have always been having kids, and have always died. It just didnt become a reality to me until it hit home. Im glad for every second I have here (even the shitty ones) because somewhere out there you have someone who feels like there life aint worth living for, they have a life but the day to day struggle to stay afloat is so shitty, or there fuckin dead. I mean 21 isnt old by any means but there are millions upon millions of people out there that didnt get to see a first birthday. Sorry for the rant, just venting.

 

I have been burned to a crisp on another forum for my thoughts on this.

I think its the most egoistic act one can do.

I get that the suicidee suffered and are on an irrational mind.
However, after they are dead, they dont suffer so you cant feel sorry for them anymore..... they dont hurt - but they have left a lifetime long suffering for the people they left behind that will always carry the multitude of questions left. and the pain.

Ive been there as a teen, I understand the pain... trust me I do.

My best friend hung himself in the garage of his parents house at the ripe age of 21.. he didnt even live there anymore.... Now his little sister had to find her big brother hanging in the garage. I know two other people that shot themselves. Ive seen and felt that pain of the family, first hand and I still wonder what I could have done.. Yes, I know, I know..

I feel an even bigger anger for bullies that create this shit that has haooend of late, noone should have to go through that sort of stuff....

 

Thank you Chica, so are you!

 

I agree FG. I have seen the aftermath (including the bodies) of people that have killed themselves and although their pain may be at an end, it has started a new kind of hell for those still living that cared about them.

 

Suicide didn't just start with your generation. As xoxo wrote, it's been going on for eons.