Suicide and the death wish...have YOU ever been here?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by happy_dayz, Nov 23, 2009.

  1. #1
    Suicide and the death wish... quoting something I read:

    David Foster Wallace:
    “ The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square.


    And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.


    Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant.


    The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors.


    It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling. ”




    I feel like that person who is about to jump right now. :(
     
    happy_dayz, Nov 23, 2009 IP
  2. Sweely

    Sweely Well-Known Member

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    I've been there a few times, and I'm telling ya... it's not worth doing it! Live your life. Live it good, and don't ever think about committing suicide. It ain't worth it, and you will only hurt the people that love you the most.
     
    Sweely, Nov 23, 2009 IP
  3. happy_dayz

    happy_dayz Peon

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    #3

    So are they the same people who are also ironically always disappointed in you, and always end up getting upset any time you answer their question?


    Including breaking out in tears and having nervous break downs?
     
    happy_dayz, Nov 23, 2009 IP
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    Never. I am a confident person and I always love myself than anyone else. This knid of thought never occured to me. Afterall also no one knows how/what would be life after death.
     
    zenoTom, Dec 3, 2009 IP
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    #5
    no life after death
     
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    thofelt like it sometimes but would never pursue it
     
    Dumachi, Dec 6, 2009 IP
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    RightMan Notable Member

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    #8
    Of course... it is natural for human emotions to run wild many times but you got to hold your reins and pull yourself up!
    Admitting the present state not being good and that it will change too... will help you get over it. At least.. that is what had helped me whenever I had found myself in a corner!

    Remember what your nick says....happy days would be back! :)

    Regards,

    RightMan
     
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    ana14 Guest

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    #9
    life is a beautiful..so dont suicide
     
    ana14, Dec 6, 2009 IP
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    5ive Well-Known Member

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    I think at one point in your life you get the thoughts in your mind even if your happy, its just a though tho, many of us dont really take action and do that then..
     
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    I am very afraid of the pain, so I will not commit suicide.
     
    akimboblog, Dec 6, 2009 IP
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    ankit_frenz Active Member

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    Hmm may be a few years back..but these days i have changed..i am now enjoying my life..trying to get the fullest of it... :)
     
    ankit_frenz, Dec 6, 2009 IP
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    Yeah I think life is the most beautiful gift there is, to want to end it just seems so wrong.
     
    tnbturbo, Dec 29, 2009 IP
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    rajesh.ejob Well-Known Member

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    #14
    Life is to live and it must be lived completely, suicide is one of the actions of coward who don't have guts to face the challenges of life, Be a bold and strong human, think that nothing is more valuable than your life. Fight against your sorrows and time can heal anything, so leave sometime for your suicide idea and after a while you itself understand what a stupid thing you thought to do.
     
    rajesh.ejob, Dec 29, 2009 IP
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    I wanted to be dead when i was 14
     
    Partizan, Dec 30, 2009 IP
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    #16
    Life is beautiful

    so love it and try to live happy !
     
    Awan-G, Jan 1, 2010 IP
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    #17
    No matter what you dont have, if you combine what you have with creativity, you can achieve a lot.

    GOD KNOWS WHAT TO GIVE US, WHEN TO GIVE US, HOW MUCH TO GIVE US, HOW TO GIVE US to make us stronger. Accept this statement. Even if you do not believe in God. The statement helps you.
     
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    #18
    Life is short... A lot ppl that die wish that they will live longer but why we need end our life without fully explorer it..
     
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    All the thoughts about committing a suicide are damaging for your mental health - I prefer to stay away from them:(((
     
    Warner, May 13, 2010 IP
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    #20
    never i dont
     
    bhuppi890109, Jun 2, 2010 IP