Just don't go through with it. For example, I wanted to drink an entire bottle of liquid Benadryl this spring but I chose not to go through with it. I don't meditate or pray, or use a 12-step program, or call a suicide hotline, or call anyone for emotional support. Just sheer willpower prevented me. And knowing that people would label me negatively -- not that I'd care since I'd be dead.

I don't think there is one correct answer, bpcyclist. Everyone is different so their reason for staying alive will be based on their life.

I stay alive because I don't know what happens after death. If this is *it* then as ****** as my life is, I'm happy to be alive.