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commiting suicide ?

thougts about suicide

  • l never attempted to commit suicide

    Votes: 33 36.7%
  • l tried to commit suicide once

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • l tried to commit suicide more than once

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • l thought about commiting suicide but never attempted

    Votes: 28 31.1%
  • l never thought about commiting suicide

    Votes: 26 28.9%
  • l usually tend to commit suicide but always prevent myself

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • other

    Votes: 9 10.0%

  • Total voters
    90
I had a rough time growing up in a number of dimensions. The end result was for the longest time, I did not like me, because I had been so hurt and I blamed myself (as children do) for my misfortune. During that time, I often thought of suicide.

When I got older, I started discovering who I am, but I spent a long time very lost within myself because I did not have an accurate self concept. During that time, I often thought of suicide as well.

As I got even older, I fully realized who I am and that I quite like who I am in a very quiet and serene way. At that point, I never again thought of suicide, even when things were really bad.

What did it for me was not necessarily a lack of strength, cowardice, or any other failing. It was a lack of accuracy in my point of view, which caused me to get all mixed up on a number of dimensions. Depression can be like that. Its not necessarily failing to meet a challenge, but more of the result of confusion which causes a different kind of despair.
 
Thought about it seriously once, but nothing more than that. I've dated two guys that had attempted suicide way before they came out out the closet.

Edit: Other than that, I believe that a completely rational person can come to the conclusion that ending his/her life through assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia is the best option when faced with an irreversible or fatally progressive disease, that will cause their quality of their life to become unacceptable or unbearable.
 
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Well, that IS the way that a good many people view it, and I don't have a problem with people expressing those views. Suicide is a pretty touchy subject to me, but I am perfectly willing to discuss it openly, whether anyone agrees with me or not.

Yes, exactly. And I imagine many people wouldn't find my life worth living. I happen to be paranoid most of the time, whenever there are allusions, I think people are making fun of me. Whenever random people laugh, I feel it's at my expense. All the time, even when that are totally random occurences, I think there are people making fun of me.

But what helps me is that I know that's most likely not the case. I have to tell me that. And usually, I am successful, although I am maybe only right 95% of the time, and overlook the 5% when it's true.

But hey, I have learnt living with that paranoia.
 
Yes, exactly. And I imagine many people wouldn't find my life worth living. I happen to be paranoid most of the time, whenever there are allusions, I think people are making fun of me. Whenever random people laugh, I feel it's at my expense. All the time, even when that are totally random occurences, I think there are people making fun of me.

Maybe I need to give you some of my pointers on not caring if people make fun of you or not. :mrgreen:
 
Well, that IS the way that a good many people view it, and I don't have a problem with people expressing those views. Suicide is a pretty touchy subject to me, but I am perfectly willing to discuss it openly, whether anyone agrees with me or not.

When you go into it with them about mental health, it's always "not real", a "BS excuse", "stop whining" and so on. They can't relate and have no desire to, so that's the end of the 'debate.'
 
When you go into it with them about mental health, it's always "not real", a "BS excuse", "stop whining" and so on. They can't relate and have no desire to, so that's the end of the 'debate.'

Well, I talk about it anyway. To each his own, I suppose, but I am not intimidated nor hurt by other peoples' lack of understanding. We all see things based on our own experiences.
 
I'd prefer to find some noble cause faced with overwhelming odds and little hope of success and get killed that way, if life became unbearable.

That wouldn't be suicide?
 
not a funny topic but a reality of this life






you can vote freely ,l didnt click " make vote public ":mrgreen:

I'm the first to admit that I've considered it. Never made an actual attempt, but the night is young! (I'm not going to attempt it tonight. I'm enjoying life - and a bottle of wine)
 
It would be what is known as suicide by cop, or in Goshin's case, probably suicide by bad guy.

Well, that's point. Deliberating doing something that you know is probably going to kill you seems like the very definition of suicide to me. :shrug:
 
I will just say that I had a psychosis once, which was really like hell on earth. I have never done LSD, but based on the descriptions I've read, it was like a horror LSD trip lasting for several weeks.

I knew something was wrong with me, and was convinced someone was going to kill me in a most painful way soon. At that time, I considered suicide, although that threat was not objectively real (but subjectively very much so).

I'm glad our psychiatry here is very progressive, they never tried any medication or treatment on me without my consent, so I soon recovered, although the side effects were grave. But I think they're easily worth it.

But I see many cases of people who are so deep into their delusions that they won't take their meds, or that the meds are not strong enough to help them. Also, I read that clinical depression is symptomatically related to schizophrenia, when it comes to chemical malfunction in the brain. So, I guess I am lucky. The meds worked for me, and I had a pretty good general attitude. But if I hadn't been that lucky, I guess I'd have considered suicide as a viable option.
 
Not sayen that it would not enter my mind in the future but knock on wood...:2no4:

l never thought about commiting suicide
 
Well, I talk about it anyway. To each his own, I suppose, but I am not intimidated nor hurt by other peoples' lack of understanding. We all see things based on our own experiences.

The same people saying these things could be smokers knocking 10 years off their life. How about gradual suicide by obesity, drugs, (insert your vice). That doesn't seem to me more valid or rational than suicide from mental/physical illness or even boredom. Probably most people contribute in some way to an earlier grave. I'm just saying let's cut the judgmental crap or at least apply it more consistently.
 
To anyone contemplating this, or anyone who knows of anyone who may be at risk of suiciding, please, just get help. Whatever it takes.

The person who completes suicide dies once and we have no second chances, no way to bring them back, they are gone forever. Meanwhile, those left behind die a little more each day.
 
I'm just saying let's cut the judgmental crap or at least apply it more consistently.

Frankly, that's not anything that you can control in another person. We all make judgements about various things. I'm not sure why you get offended that others may not agree with you, but having differences with others is the reality of life.
 
Medusa, if this is not just a conversational topic, and something you are considering, I hope you get help. This isn't something to take lightly. I give you alot of **** on this board, but I certainly wouldn't want you to do anything silly.
 
The one thing every human on the planet should be in charge of is their own body, their own life, their own choices. It is not for us to judge when, why and how life has become utterly unbearable for someone else. Shaming them by warning them how their loved ones will suffer is particularly cruel. All of us WILL die, and when we do our loved ones WILL suffer. Will they suffer less if we die slowly, over a period of months, slowly suffocating as our lungs give out, or crying in agony as cancer consumes us, or so awash in despair after decades of hopelessness and mental ravagement over which they have no control? They can grieve now, or they can grieve later... when they grieve should be my choice, not theirs.

It infuriates me when people flippantly toss out the word "coward" to describe an anguish they personally have never endured, and could never, ever understand. How dare you judge someone else's pain, someone else's life? You are not in their skin, not in their mind, don't suffer their agony. You cannot know what they live with, and what's worse, you obviously don't even care. Just shrug, call them cowards, and feel like you are their moral and mortal superior.

Until some day it is you who is dying by inches, suffering beyond your wildest imagination, and some cold, self-righteous ass looks you in the eye, calls you a coward for wanting the agony to end, calls you selfish for not thinking of those you leave behind, stares at you as if you are nothing more than a piece of meat that has no right to make decisions for itself.

In answer to the poll, yeah, I've obviously thought a lot about suicide, because I for one will not spend my final months strapped to a respirator, gasping, waiting for the breath to finally stop, and the torture to finally end. It will not end that way for me. I will choose when, how, and where, and I will do so while I still have dignity. To those who call me a coward, may you never end up as I and so many others will... until then, **** you and your self-absorbed, ignorant hubris.
 
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This is the reason I've stayed alive, I wanted to see the Movie version of Lord of the Rings...well I have...

Gee, I guess there's nothing left to live for... ;)



Of course there is--The Hobbit 1, 2 and who knows how many more....:lol:
 
not a funny topic but a reality of this life






you can vote freely ,l didnt click " make vote public ":mrgreen:
Has never crossed my mind.

Killing others? Different question. :mrgreen:
 
Frankly, that's not anything that you can control in another person. We all make judgements about various things. I'm not sure why you get offended that others may not agree with you, but having differences with others is the reality of life.

It's advice. As i said, with that kind of worthless antagonism at the start of the thread, no one's going to share much. You want offended look at #68.
 
It's advice. As i said, with that kind of worthless antagonism at the start of the thread, no one's going to share much. You want offended look at #68.

I do not believe lizzie would be offended by my post. If you were personally offended, I apologize... but I said what I meant and I meant what I said.
 
I do not believe lizzie would be offended by my post. If you were personally offended, I apologize... but I said what I meant and I meant what I said.

No no, I'm saying that you were offended by those comments. At least, it seems so. Although i largely agree with you, it's probably best to not dwell on terminal illness, while we're relatively healthy.
 
I had some battles with depression a few years back, and on more than one occasion did I have my finger on the trigger. Obviously, never went through with it. Not sure if that makes me a coward or not.
 
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