Suicide: Taking the easy way out...

i think what you don't realise though is for those people its not such a small issue. And thats not the only reason that they did what they did. Don't get me wrong im not saying that suicide is okay. I'm just saying take a moment and try to understand the person before you make judgement. After all you wouldn't want someone that didn't know you to judge you.

It's sad when people don't realize how ill a suicidal person is and how much pain they are in.

Kelly

This is a bottom up and top down problem. People are so diverse and what devastates one will make another stronger. I was never taught life skills the same as some seem to have. How come some people don't get gutted when tragedy happens. Or why do some people go down into a pit at the death of someone, yet someone else does not?

I wish when I had asked my mother for help when I was bullied at school, she actually did help. Instead she said "there's nothing I can do, that's something you need to cope with." I was eight years old! This is common, I learned to cope the hard way and in the process I didn't ask for help again, which was a mistake because when you are in the pit that's what you are faced with - no help and no hope.

Suicide is NOT the answer, but some days it feels like it is. And to a person who is in the depths of depression, this is hell regardless of whether you come back in the next life to repeat the process is irrelevant here!

When your upbringing does not give you the tools to manage what life is going to bring, you are at the mercy of your own strength to carry you through, and sometimes that feels insufficient.

I'm sorry but you are making this issues seem so trivial when to a suicidal person they ARENT....My 11 yr old "nephew" was bullied at school every day...in fact he ended up getting beaten so badly they smashed his front teeth in with a baseball bat...his father didnt really acknowledge him especially in comparison to all his other kids..his mum and her bf had serious issues (he was an extremely abusive drunk) and the list goes on.....To you that may seem simple to him it was devastating and he ended up hanging himself....

My ex had a drinking problem, a serious one for thelast yr of his life, got busted 2 final times by the same cop for DUI...in Ontario thats an automatic license suspension for 3 months...my ex was a truck driver...His relationship with his woman was turbulant, he'd left her two weeks prior to his death, our kids had decided not to see him anymore a couple months before hand because of his drinking problem and that woman who was mean to them...He and I had been fighting (we normally were really good friends) becuase of his drinking and thigs that went on when the kids were visiting him...To you all these things may seem fixable..To him his life was crashing to a firey end and add to that the fact that alcohol is a depressant he was a timebomb...He killed himself a week before our sons 10th birthday...his bday weekend we were up North burying his father....

Very rarely is an act of suicide done over something simply like "losing your job and having your wife walk out"...more often than not the whole scenario is far more complex than that....

To you suicide my be "taking the easy way out" to us....its ending our pain and saving the ones we love from more suffering...

I had a dear close friend who committed suicide because of the abuse that he took constantly from his wife who he was trying to divorce at the time of his death. At that time someone said something to me that after I thought about it really made sense - "Suicide is a long term solution to a short term problem." Once you committ suicide you can never turn the clock back but the problem that drives you to it will always go away eventually.