Suicide

[Kitty]

Thanks for sharing.

Do you feel better now, or should we send someone over?

Going by how silver tongued this poster is, I doubt he's still hurting. But your concern is heart warming.

 

[LinusRules]

Your thoughts on it?
Destructive or for some people a release from personal circumstances?

Religious views? Impact on family?

weighing up my options.

If you're here making this post you're reaching for help (you really should have picked a better board than the General Board). Where you want help, go get it.

 

[Wife of Bath]

Rogue, seek help as soon as you can. Now. Call a helpline, call a friend or family member, go to the hospital.

I had a very close friend commit suicide with no warning a few years ago. The reverberations through his family and friends was catastrophic. The sudden, inexplicable loss of someone close to your heart is truly irreparable. It affects all of us to this day and forever.

 

[Curtis71]

12 years ago I decided that ending my life was the only answer. And in that moment no one could have changed my mind or understood why I felt that way. Luckily I had technical difficulties and failed.

I have the most awesome life now and I often thank Chance, Change & Chaos for my failure because I would have missed out on so much.

I'm glad I'm still here and if you stick around, you will feel the same one day.

 

[Jennifer]

Bitch shut up. I've said what I now see many people have said.

If it's a chemical imbalance, they should contact emergency.
If it's schizophrenia, someone should contact emergency.
If it's a feeling of sadness or inadequacy or rage, I stand by how can calling someone help? You're the one who said call the emergency.

If someone has a gun to their head, I doubt they'll call a help line And calling a help line can calm them down but it still doesn't solve any of their problems, that they are stressed because they can't pay their bills or whatever the issue is. You think you have say because you're a nurse or whatever you do but you can still be a dumb ass.

I never advised him to call anyone. My suggestion was to GO to the ER where they have things like medications and trained professionals. Please get your facts correct before you try to insult me.

 

[Riles]

weighing up my options.

Can I ask a simple question?

Why?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I never advised him to call anyone. My suggestion was to GO to the ER where they have things like medications and trained professionals. Please get your facts correct before you try to insult me.

This is good. Maybe it'll start trolling you.

 

[Disgustipated]

I never advised him to call anyone. My suggestion was to GO to the ER where they have things like medications and trained professionals. Please get your facts correct before you try to insult me.

She only posts to see the pretty things on the screen. Pay her no mind as she doesn't have one.

 

[Kitty]

This is good. Maybe it'll start trolling you.

Ann shut up.

She only posts to see the pretty things on the screen. Pay her no mind as she doesn't have one.

Yet you still pay me so much mind.

 

[Kitty]

I never advised him to call anyone. My suggestion was to GO to the ER where they have things like medications and trained professionals. Please get your facts correct before you try to insult me.

Now you're playing semantics. Go, call...either way, I doubt no help from the ER will help someone who is suicidal pay their bills. People kill themselves for many reasons, not just chemical imbalances and mental disorders. There are people who are depressed because they can't cope with life. Those people are definitely not going to go anywhere. Nice try. And I can say whatever the FUCK I want to you, as your grown ass never refrains from insulting ME. Take what you dish, bitch. And tell your internet friends to shut the fuck up too.

Waits for a petty retort from you or the peanut gallery, or silence in pretense to ignore me.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I once had a job as an ice-cream van driver, in the summer holidays whilst a student. I quickly learned that since I was paid by the hour and not by results, I could just get into the van and drive up onto the cliffs, where I could sit undisturbed apart from a few passing hikers wanting cups of tea. I got a lot of reading done. But the post I chose was on the way to Beachy Head, Britain's most 'popular' suicide spot. And on a few occasions I saw men who, for one reason or another, I thought might well be on their way to take that step. Erratic walking, one or two crying or talking to themselves, in one case just profoundly silent in a way that was almost physically present.

In each case when I saw someone like that I called out and offered them a free ice-cream, and two accepted and we had a chat. And I have sometimes wondered if either of them changed their mind because of a few pence worth of frozen, churned, condensed milk. Ah, the unfathomable depths of the human mind.

Also, wouldn't it be nice if everyone could be nice to each other? Just a thought.

 

[unregistered]

 

[DesEsseintes]

This.

I was going to write if everyone could be nice to me, because obviously that's all I really care about. And then I thought that everyone already is nice to me, so I expanded it.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Balladeer08]

I once had a job as an ice-cream van driver, in the summer holidays whilst a student. I quickly learned that since I was paid by the hour and not by results, I could just get into the van and drive up onto the cliffs, where I could sit undisturbed apart from a few passing hikers wanting cups of tea. I got a lot of reading done. But the post I chose was on the way to Beachy Head, Britain's most 'popular' suicide spot. And on a few occasions I saw men who, for one reason or another, I thought might well be on their way to take that step. Erratic walking, one or two crying or talking to themselves, in one case just profoundly silent in a way that was almost physically present.

In each case when I saw someone like that I called out and offered them a free ice-cream, and two accepted and we had a chat. And I have sometimes wondered if either of them changed their mind because of a few pence worth of frozen, churned, condensed milk. Ah, the unfathomable depths of the human mind.

Also, wouldn't it be nice if everyone could be nice to each other? Just a thought.

Probably much more effective than a bunch of psychobabble. My compliments.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Jennifer]

This is good. Maybe it'll start trolling you.

Please do.

 

[Balladeer08]

I can think of a few times in my life when ice cream and a friendly chat would've gone a long way.

Yeah. I could use one right now.

Okay, non-fat frozen yogurt. Fucking high cholesterol.

 

[Kitty]

Please do.

As suspected.

Playing the higher road because she can't even handle me and this is only the internet. *claps*

You can disagree with me without calling me stupid. Then you dare tell me not to insult you when you threw the first jab. Be an adult.

I'm glad you have your little cyber buddies, you're gonna need em bitch if you assault my character and intelligence.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Probably much more effective than a bunch of psychobabble. My compliments.

Thanks - but it was pretty terrible ice-cream. I'm haunted by the knowledge that one or both of them may not have been intending suicide, but were driven to it by the gritty, artificial mess I forced on them. They may have felt the last lukewarm sludge of cheap vanilloid flavouring coat their resentful oesophagus and thought 'Fuck this for a game of soldiers: I want no further part in a world that can pass off muck like that as ice-cream'.

Who knows, that's all I'm saying.

 

[Muscadine_Eyes]

One night I considered wrapping my car around a tree. I was in the worst of it then. I was coming down off of Klonopin. It had rained for days, so everything was wet. I decided to inflict pain instead of killing myself. I pulled off on the side of the road next to the bayou. It was pretty steep and my car got stuck. I walked to several houses on the road and no one answered. I got to a house by a grave yard and an old lady answered. She new my mom who was the manager of the local library. She gave me a ride home.

During this time my mom thought I had gone to drown myself in the bayou. She was out there screaming in the night. It really upset her. She thought I was dead.

In high school my cousin shot herself. It really hurt me.

Our problems overwhelm us from time to time. When you feel better, and you will, remember this: In life it takes little corrections to get to our goals. It is like a plane going from Houston to New York. The pilot doesn't jerk the controls, he guides them slowly and carefully. You can do this now with your mind. Turn your mind to a daydream about a future happy time. Even if it feels far away now, thinking about it will bring it closer.

 

[Jennifer]

As suspected.

Playing the higher road because she can't even handle me and this is only the internet. *claps*

You can disagree with me without calling me stupid. Then you dare tell me not to insult you when you threw the first jab. Be an adult.

I'm glad you have your little cyber buddies, you're gonna need em bitch if you assault my character and intelligence.

Why will I need them?

I never asked anyone to help me. You've made your own enemies.

 

[Kitty]

Why will I need them?

I never asked anyone to help me. You've made your own enemies.

Lmao "enemies." Is it that serious? I have real friends and get real dick. This is killtime joy and you always try to be my killjoy. Sort yourself out.

But go on, this is strangely entertaining, as boring as you are.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I had an uncle commit suicide. It leaves a ripple effect for years to come. I was younger, so its effects on me were not so traumatic. But I know for the rest of my family, it was destructive in ways I can't describe. The concerns about what could've been done or what did we do wrong really haunt people.

I think the people who say all suicide is a cowardly way out and all that are just ignorant to the subject or, at best, insensitive dolts. Some people may take suicide as an option for not wanting to face things, but many people have real chemical imbalances that cause people to do desperate things. It's like saying someone who lost a battle with cancer is weak.

 

[BotanyBoy]

It brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

And you can do the same thing if you please....