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When People Commit Suicide, What Is Their Final Thought?

rhinefire said:
Ever think about this, a person decides to end it through thought process. Then the pocess dictates the beginning of the actual act like pointing the gun at the head. Next thought, pull the trigger. Is the final thought the worst thought? Is it the ultimate level of depression? Is there any rational at all remaining? Or does the brain simply shut down and give up? When they walk to the edge of the cliff and fall what are they thinking as they travel through the air toward death?
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"Hope I don't wake up..." in the case of falling from a great height or slashing wrists.

I would think that in the case of suicide by Glock that one's mind would cease to function before that last thought or feeling could even form.
 
Ontologuy said:
For many, the last thing that goes through their mind is .. .. the bullet.

Suicide is the end, the end of everything.

It's simply something to be avoided at all costs.
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The bullet goes through the brain, not the mind. The mind is conceptual, and not concrete.
 
lizzie said:
The bullet goes through the brain, not the mind. The mind is conceptual, and not concrete.
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The mind is contained in the brain, created therewith and in conjunction with the dark matter connection of the zero-point field in the specific frequency received by the particular brain.

So when the bullet goes through that .. it goes through the mind as well.

That mind is then gone .. and gone is forever.
 
In the Movie "the Edge" Hopkins character says people die of shame.
I could see this. They feel a level of shame for things they have or have not done.
People they have hurt, lack of accomplishment, ect.
For whatever reason, they think their problems are somehow greater or different,
that they need this other solution.
I suspect the results are never what they would have wanted for those left behind.
 
Ontologuy said:
The mind is contained in the brain, created therewith and in conjunction with the dark matter connection of the zero-point field in the specific frequency received by the particular brain.

So when the bullet goes through that .. it goes through the mind as well.

That mind is then gone .. and gone is forever.
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Keep in mind that it is A LOT harder to reliably kill a human being than most people realize. Those who attempt suicide by gunshot to the head manage to botch it all the time.

There was a clinically depressed USMC Colonel who attempted to commit suicide by putting a small caliber gun in his mouth. All really he suceeded in doing was basically lobotomizing himself.

His wife came home several hours later to find him calmly eating ceral in his full dress uniform with blood oozing out of the top of his head. He had no memory of the event, but he also no longer had clinical depression.

The event essentially rewired his entire personality.
 
Gathomas88 said:
Keep in mind that it is A LOT harder to reliably kill a human being than most people realize. Those who attempt suicide by gunshot to the head manage to botch it all the time.

There was a clinically depressed USMC Colonel who attempted to commit suicide by putting a small caliber gun in his mouth. All really he suceeded in doing was basically lobotomizing himself.

His wife came home several hours later to find him calmly eating ceral in his full dress uniform with blood oozing out of the top of his head. He had no memory of the event, but he also no longer had clinical depression.

The event essentially rewired his entire personality.
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Sounds more effective than antidepressants.

I came close once as a teenager. Was under the influence too, but what i do remember was the senses became heightened, like I felt more alive than ever, and it just seemed impossible to go from that to nothing...I don't remember thinking anything else before passing out.
 
Complete hopelessly, shame, suffering, and surrender.

I don't agree that suicide is always an irrational choice. Maybe if someone is in emotional crisis or they are confused, then yeah; but a lot of people commit suicide knowing fully well what they're doing, they just lack information to show them a different path.

Likewise, I completely disagree that suicide is something wrong happening in their brain. The desire to die is an existential dilemma that is just as much spiritual as it is about mental processes.
 
I do not believe that death entails oblivion. There's not a last thought, per se. There is a last thought that can be called "yours" in any usual sense of the word. I suspect that thought is different for everyone who commits suicide.
 
If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be here, now would I? :slapme:
 
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