10 Reasons

Can someone give me 10 (good/fantastic) reasons suicide is a bad idea?

Sorry you are feeling that way. I would suggest calling one of these toll free numbers.

Suicide Hotlines (National)
National Hopeline Network for suicide prevention and emotional crisis toll free nationwide:
1-800-784-2433
The Trevor HelpLine
To aid in suicide prevention in gay and questioning youth
1-800-850-8078
Covenant House Nine-line
1-800-999-9999
The Help Line USA
1-866-334-4357
National Adolescent Suicide Hotline
(Answered by the runaway switchboard)
1-800-621-4000
National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc.
1-800-248-4344
National Youth Crisis Hotline (reporting child abuse and help for runaways)
800-448-4663
United Way Helpline
1-800-233-HELP (1-800-233-4357)
The Nationwide Crisis Hotline
1-800-333-4444

I would but I have no phone, no cell phone

1. Suicide creates a hole in the universe where you used to be.
2. People who commit suicide are trying to end their pain, but create waves of it for those left behind.
3. I had to drive a friend to his mom's house after his brother had killed himself.
4. We got there and the house was still airing out.
5. He had done it in the garage with carbon monoxide. The mom found him.
6. I'll never forget the look on her face.
7. I know this is a story not 10 reasons, but ever since this experience, suicide has lost it's allure for me.
8. Suicide is ugly.
9. Life is difficult , but it's worth it. There are magic moments that make the pain worthwhile.
10. Suicide is murder. You are murdering a precious, glorious being.

If you are in immediate danger go to er or call 911 or a suicide hotline.

Sorry you have no phone. If you are in immediate danger, get someone to take you to er or borrow their phone.

http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/index.html

Because things can always get better. If you end your life, you'll never experience that.

I echo what others are saying. I also know some people make the decision to end their lives impulsively, while others contemplate it for awhile. If this is an emotional decision, ride the waves out. If it is a logical/thought out decision, give yourself more time and give life a chance to get better.

1. If it's your time to go, it's your time to go. Eventually it will be our time to go, but not yet. You're here for a reason.
2. People who live and care about you will be left with the scars of your decision as long as they live. Do you want them to experience the pain you are going through? You aren't ending it, because you only pass it on to them.
3. I don't know what religion you are, but if you're Christian, you're supposed to go to Hell when you commit suicide. But idk what you believe, I don't even know what I believe... But it's something to think about.
4. What if you mess it up? Overdose and end up damaging your internal organs? Blow your face off with a gun and live the rest of your life deformed? And then everyone will know you tried to kill yourself and they'll want to talk to you about it... Which personally I would hate. And if you seriously injured yourself but didn't die, your life will only be worse than before.
5. Think of all the people you were meant to know and love in the future... Maybe you were going to save someone's life a few years from now. What happens to that person? This is another example of how you affect so much more than just yourself if you commit suicide.
6. Suicide is murder. Maybe it doesn't seem so bad because it's you making the decision... But think how when people kill others, how devastating it is for so many people. And when you hear about a murder, don't you think it was wrong for whoever killed the person to have done it?
7. It is a PERMANENT solution to a TEMPORARY problem.
8. Whoever finds you (if someone does) will be left with that image for the rest of their lives. You will really be scarring that person.
9. Would you kill your best friend?
10. No matter how bad it is, your future is not hopeless. Your depression is trying to tell you that it is, and you believe you'll never be happy again. But you will, they are so many things waiting for you in the future that you wouldn't want to miss.

I'm in a rush, just having a click through, so won't do 10.

The person who finds you.

Hope you're ok.

xxx

still not convinced

If you have made a mess, you don't use dynamite to clean it up, you get a helper (therapist, friend, family member) and a couple buckets and soap, water, and a mop and together you clean it up. It is not that it is a "bad idea", it is more a ridiculous, nonsensical idea, it does not "solve" whatever it is that is the problem, it just leaves a bigger mess for others to clean up.

It is selfish in the sense that one "gives up" and in doing so, adds to the burden of all those others who are struggling. One actually becomes dead weight in the struggle for life. That weight is like if one becomes disabled climbing a mountain and the others hooked to you by the rope now have to do their difficult and dangerous task with the non-responsive person tied to them like an anchor. Some of those people fall themselves, they are having difficulty carrying their own weight and the added weight the disabled one has added, breaks them.

It's egotistical in the sense that it implies the person knows what is going to happen in the future, is a "god" and knows their circumstances (and their selves) will not change for the better. Climbing the mountain is difficult but tied to the other people, their climbing helps everyone move up to the top as much as a single person's dead weight can pull down.

It is short-sighted; one is looking only at one's own struggle instead of at the bigger picture too. There are always climbing partners but this person is operating as if one does not see them, is acting like they are climbing the mountain alone which one would not normally do. However, instead of realizing that one does not climb mountains alone and looking for one's team, one shrugs and takes on the belief the struggle is harder than it actually is/needs to be and thus cannot make it "alone" and falls.

It is condescending. It is the belief one is better than others and can make the climb alone, does not need any help.

It is dangerous. No one living knows for sure what happens when you are not. What we hope for, imagine, think, etc. is not the actual experience. Too, many suicides are unsuccessful and one becomes injured in ways that make living even more difficult and can take much of life's choices away from one. If I'm gambling, I'd rather face an unknown future where there's a chance things can get better than an unknown experience where even the chances are unknown.

We die anyway. What's the rush? We have this opportunity; the days a pad of artist's paper to scribble on, draw on, make lists on, journal on, write symphonies on, do finger painting, water color, oil painting on, fold into origami swans, paper airplanes, crumble and throw in the trash; why leave the pad only half used, it's needlessly wasteful.

I struggle with suicidal thoughts. But you just have to keep on fighting and be strong and hope there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

ok fine. try this and get back to us. ask someone you look up to if you ending your life would ever benifit them. tell them how you feel, listen then form your own ideas about suicide- not just about you but suicide in general. now i have a question for you, do you want me to kill myself? i'm serious. i am not suicidal but do you want me or anyone to take away any life even their own?

Ok, smmath, I asked one of my friends and they said it wouldn't benefit them. I don't want anyone to kill themselves, or anyone else, but I have absolutely no way to deal with anything. I have no money, pretty soon I will be living on the streets, and my parents hate me. I only have three friends (that is not an exaggeration, either) and I don't trust people.

I have a very good friend who went from the hospital to the streets because his family would not take him back. I'm not going to say his life is all rainbows and daiseis, because it definitly isn't, but he did get through it. He has his own place now, and a job.

If you end up homeless, do take use of shelters and programs. Try and see if you can stay at one of your friends houses for a month or two, or even just use their number and address on a resume, and then try and find a job.

From someone who's on sick leave right now because of mental illness, even if you can't hold down a job you can still try and do it, get fired, get the paycheck, and apply to somewhere else pretending that didn't ever happen.

Something my friend, and now I've found out my mother as well, knew how to do was live on 2$ a day. It is possible (I still don't know how, but it is!) and even if things get that bad they will get better.

Being suicidal will pass, please know that. Next time something wonderful happens, remember it, and think of how you'd never have seen, done, or experienced that wonderful thing if you'd gone through with it. I've been doing that since my last really big suicidal phase. Though there's a story there.

You sound like you've got a lot of very rough terrain ahead of you, but if you keep fighting through it the place you come out to will be good, and you will have the skills you need to make it great.

Sorry if that was not very helpful or emotionally supportive.... I just want you to be okay, make it through tonight, and then find a way to make it through the rest.

Bc suicide is only giving up. Suicide is lack of faith. I have my son. My son is the product of my bestfriend raping me for the first time. Very long story filled with many details but I have my son and I have faith that God will never give me more than I can handle. The feeling that I am tired and just ready to be 97 yrs old, on my deathbd, surrounded by fat grandchildren, and quickly slipping away is most definatly there, but I'm not suicidal. I'm just tired. Reasons to live are your reasons not to commit suicide.