re: Anybody here ever seriously considered suicide?

It will be warm and sunny before you know it. Sorry you are going through it. Anything specific bothering you?

Come over to the Northwoods. We can drink beer.

Only if you bring your wife and she brings dat arse.

Yes.




If there's nothing to live for today, there might be something worth living for tomorrow.

I've been there after my mom's death and a divorce. I have nothing to offer except it was a black time and my soul was lost, and the gun was in my hand. I came out of it, either through fear or hope. Thank God for that as life is wonderful and has been for a long time.

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Dont play that game. That's bullshite. You don't know what someone is going through that would make them consider, or go through with, suicide.

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It's not a game. I've seen it destroy families. Do you think it doesn't?

Plenty of people suffer deep depression or other problems that make them contemplate suicide and they don't follow through. If you've gone through something terrible, I hate it for you. But so have a lot of other people. And there is help out there.

Worse thing about is that if you have kids it gives them the idea that its an option.

I read a lot of Walker Percy. For many generations, at least one of his ancestors had committed suicide. His grandfather and parents committed suicide. He spent much of his life asking the question of why they did so and whether he would do so also.

Suicide in a family can be like a fatal genetic disease, something like Huntington’s disease reaching to later generations who will wonder “is that how I will die?”

Probably was when very young as most did not expect me to make it to my 18th birthday. Took till years later that what I thought was a normal childhood really was not but by then I had lost so many close to me both family and friends to suicide that I had become immune to it as the survivor. Years later I took some time out and spent some time just to see if I was a candidate.

Person I spent the time with said I was pretty well adjusted for what I had gone through. My mind had created a "logic box" as checklist for all the reasons I did not agree suicide was the answer. Not saying it works for everybody but somehow I was lucky it had worked for me. As somebody stated above, it is a very selfish act, and if you can see the collateral damage it causes you to harden against it when depression creeps in.

It sounds dumb but when the dark days arrive I usually play the "worse off" game in my head and before long I am on the street in some 3rd world country with all kinds of issues and boom, I am back out of the funk. Self preservation should always be allowed to defeat self pity and always think like a survivor not a victim. Not sure any of this helps others, but it helped me.