If you’ve considered suicide, what keeps you from doing it?

[Anonymous]

Waiting period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because permanent solutions to temporary problems are illogical

Please don't assume someone's problems are temporary.

- NP

[Anonymous]

For me it's my kids.

But I also hate them for keeping me in a life that's hopeless.

[Anonymous]

I want to accumulate some wealth to pass on for my brothers’ kids so they can have money for college…since my brothers don’t have much saved.

Then maybe bye bye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to accumulate some wealth to pass on for my brothers’ kids so they can have money for college…since my brothers don’t have much saved.

Then maybe bye bye.

They may need you after college too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a nanny too and often stay on this earth because of the kids. Like a previous poster does. But then I have lied to them. I pretend I live alone when in fact I still live with family at the age of 37. I didn't want their parents to judge me as a loser but now realise that they don't like the real me. Just the me I have portrayed myself as.
I am single, no kids, unattractive, no friends. Just worthless.

Actually, you have no baggage. No kids, not racking up debt trying to live a swanky bachelorette life. The world is your oyster. Your net worth is like higher than many 30 somethings just by virtue of living with your parents. I'm not sure why you think you are unattractive. If it's weight, well I know men who love fat women. There's somebody for everybody!

[Anonymous]

I have considered a more dignified way to end my own pain and suffering when I get old and sick and death is inevitable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to accumulate some wealth to pass on for my brothers’ kids so they can have money for college…since my brothers don’t have much saved.

Then maybe bye bye.

They may need you after college too.

Thanks, pp, it’s a nice thought…but a free college education or home down payment legacy would be much more than I could offer them in person.

After all, I am mentally ill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have considered a more dignified way to end my own pain and suffering when I get old and sick and death is inevitable.

I believe if you have a chronic condition (either physical or mental) that causes great suffering, it is a person's right to end their life. We consider euthanasia to be the humane option for pets, but we don't afford the same dignity to humans. If someone you love is in this position, I would hope that you would want them to be relieved of their suffering rather than selfishly want them to continue to suffer to avoid causing you pain.

[Anonymous]

Thinking about how sad I was after I found out somebody committed suicide, even if I didn't know them well. They thought nobody cared and the world would be better off without them, and they were wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was so saddened by the suicides of Kate Spade, Robin Williams, and Anthony Bourdain. I watch Anthony Bourdain's show sometimes, and I can't believe someone with so much life committed suicide. It almost feels like throwing a temper tantrum, so I try to power through my thoughts of "I'll kill myself" because life isn't always going to go my way. I know that some people can't power through those feelings of life never improving.

I was jealous of the three of them for finding the courage I lack.

Robin Williams had deteriorating brain disease that had significant impact on his final years. He went to several doctors, but kept getting misdiagnosed. The actual diagnosis didn’t come until the autopsy. So sad.

[Anonymous]

The fact that l would make life harder for others and inflict pain on them. If l knew no one and no one knew me, it would be a different choice. Non existing is appealing to me (it is also the reason why l don’t understand opposition to abortion, it seems like not-being born isn’t at all a bad thing).

[Anonymous]

My kids. I know for sure one of them would be lost without me. The other one may or may not cope.

[Anonymous]

My kids, for now. But I often find myself wondering at what age they'll finally be okay without me.

[Anonymous]

I can't do it for practical reasons and my family.
A friend of mine died this way when we were in our late 20s and while I'd always in theory been of the mind that if someone needs to go, then let them - the reality is very different, it is CRUSHING when it happens and hard to reconcile. The suffering it leaves is widespread. I couldn't do that to people.