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by Scythe on January 2nd, 2007

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How come people who kill themselves believe they have nothing to live for?

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  • by talkewlone on March 4th, 2009

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    Not all people who kill themselves believe that. Matter of fact, it is often the result of pain out weighing the rest of life. And if you have not felt the pain, don't you darer try to pretend you are educated enough to understand the pain, because if you have not lived it, you have no fucking idea what it is like. That being said, if I off myself, it was not for lack of reason to live, for I have plenty of reason to libe. What I do not have is the unlimited resource to fight the physical, emotional, and spiritual stresses, and pain involved in living with the God gived adversities I am blessed with.

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  • by Legend In Your Own Mind on March 4th, 2009

    Legend In Your Own Mind

    People commit suicide or attempt it for many reasons. It boils down to not caring anymore if you die happy or not. Everyone has that image in their minds eye of having the love of our lives by us and the movie image of just happily dropping off into the abyss or into the pearly gates, but it almost never happens that way. We all want to die with no pain, but life is a struggle. It always has been and always will be, but that's the lousiest reason to die. Life has pain it it and more for some than for others. I try to think of how rotten it was for people tortured to death at the hands of ruthless killers and suddenly my problems, no matter how bad don't seem so bad after all. But that doesn't always work.
    I was a heroin addict a few years ago and the pain was a constant, every day companion and the utter shame of being an addict seemed even worse. I shot a huge overdose into myself intentionally and why it didn't kill me is anyones guess, but obviously it didn't. I've swallowed poisons, hung myself, cut myself, smashed cars into walls, swallowed enough pills to choke a buffalo and even tried to get a cop to shoot me and nothing worked.
    Now, some people might say God has a different plan and perhaps they are right, but I don't believe in divine providence or the existence of superior beings so there has to be other reasons, but I have no clue what it could possibly be.
    But, I do know that I have reached that point in life where I know death will eventually find me so I don't have to find it. I have no fear of death and welcome it just as I welcome a good nights sleep. I don't seek it and have no desire to ever want to seek death again.
    Now you might think, "This guy must have hit the lotto or found true love." or other such ideas, but none of those has happened. In fact financially I couldn't be worse off if I tried and my wife of 22 years left me a few years ago so why should i be so damned happy? I shouldn't be happy by any standards known in this modern life, but I woke up one day, felt horrible and ended up under a bridge balling like a baby trying to get my nerve up to walk in front of a speeding train. Finally that time had come so I walked out to the tracks and stood there waiting for the next train and something changed.
    I stopped crying and stepped back from the tracks and watched the train fly on past. I realized that day that I had cried all my tears out and I was still alive. I had cried so hard that at one point I was vomiting, snot was pouring out of my face like a faucet and my eyes.. Jeeez..I can't even describe that, but there just wasn't any left so I started walking and good things bagan to happen. most were just little things like finding a tree loaded with ripe pecans, then meeting good friends, I found a few dollars. it wasn't much, but it got me through a few days, but the weight of a life time was gone.
    One thing I know is tears contain enormous amounts of stress producing hormones.That is to say that when we cry we release those hormones and they do indeed leave our bodies, but we have been preconditioned to hold back our tears. We're taught from very young ages that crying is for babies and weak men only cry or women cry because you're silly, weak beings. The truth couldn't be further from the myth of weakness. In fact crying is a perfectly natural way of getting ride of the anguish holding out own happiness back. If you could bottle your tears and give them to your enemies you could potentially win every battle with others from now till the end of time. They would be filled with self doubt, anguish and worse, fear. Fear of failure, fear of being alone, fear of denial...many, many fears, but yet we hold all that inside all to ourselves until we're ready to scream or worse, commit suicide.
    Part of our body that controls a great deal of our emotions is our adrenal system which also ironically controls our tears as well. Read up on ways to make your adrenal system healthier and you'll be happier. I'm convince adrenal problems probably lead to more suicides than most doctors will ever admit.
    The adrenal system keeps people to fat, to underweight, bloated, dehydrated and plain pissed off at everything. The adrenal glands are directly related to your kidneys as well.
    Without trying to sound like a lay doctor I would suggest reading up on what makes your adrenal system healthy, follow up on getting it healthy and happiness is sure to follow.
    Try it. You have absolutely nothing to lose and a great deal to gain.

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  • by .....----- on September 5th, 2007

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    Because sometimes the good things that had happened to you don't seem good enough compared to the bad ones and you loose all hope in life and it really seems like theres nothing to live for the hard thing to do is found out a motive to keep going.

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  • by Patti jo on May 10th, 2007

    Patti jo

    They have lost their way and given up all hope

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  • by foreverabrokenheart on June 25th, 2010

    foreverabrokenheart

    maybe because their reason for living is gone and so they become hurt, scared and confused, and so they think death is their only solution.

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  • by Zebulon on March 4th, 2009

    Zebulon

    Sometimes they don't.

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  • by Sid on March 4th, 2009

    Sid

    Because sometimes they don't.

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  • by peacefull on March 1st, 2009

    peacefull

    Life is always challenging.
    Its about maintaining a posative.
    if something fail there is never a reson to die.
    most people choose to kill themselfves or attempt because of relationships and finaince, and other this combined to creat tons of stress.
    hints to not be stressed are:
    get back on your horse.
    everybody is amazing and special, in thier own ways. no one should evr make you feel other wise (at least you should be strong enough to not let it)
    be posative. when you commit and fail, put your heart and faith in something else.
    expect the worse and be prepared.
    everybody hits rock bottom in thier own lives.
    its about loving yourself first.
    if you dont then you might concider this.
    love yourself. and respect yourself. its never worth it!

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  • by Twhupfold on May 10th, 2007

    Twhupfold

    Seethegrim put it quite well, it's reaching a point in your life where you don't want to fight for what you can't even see anymore.

    Though I'd say it a little differently:

    It's reaching a point in your life where you are mentally incapable of forseeing ANYTHING but suffering in your life.

    Imagine if you were sent to hell 'for eternity', if you had the choice, would you choose to simply cease to exist, or would you stay, suffering for an eternity, with a sliver of hope that 'maybe' you'll be forgiven and taken away from hell?

    That is the mind-set of someone who is suicidal (was for me at least); I'd rather not even exist than stay here suffering endlessly.

    Of course, there 'was' an end to the pain, and thankfully it came before I could finish myself off, but it doesn't come at such a convenient time for everyone, for some it simply will 'never' come, for many it is at least the complete belief that it will 'never' come that leads them to attempt suicide.

    You have to understand that it is not a normal mental state, you don't just go "You know what, I think I'm going to kill myself today. Hell, why not!", you go "Why must my life be so miserable? Why can't it just stop? What must I do to make this end? I can't hold on much longer! This will never stop on it's own, and I am powerless to stop it in this life, it just has to end."

    ^ I can't stress this enough, people who are suicidal because of depression are NOT in a normal, healthy state of mind, this may seem obvious to you, but for many it isn't, they think Suicidal people are just selfish idiots with no idea : / (I'd liken people who think such things to someone who finds it funny that a quadraplegic can't run... It is an equally sick state of mind to think that someone who honestly wants to kill themself is doing it through selfishness.)

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  • by jaykole on June 25th, 2010

    jaykole

    How come people who don't kill themselves believe they do have something to live for?

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  • by foreverabrokenheart on June 25th, 2010

    foreverabrokenheart

    i think

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  • by foreverabrokenheart on June 25th, 2010

    foreverabrokenheart

    maybe because their reason for living is now gone and they get hurt. confused, and scared and the only solution they can think of is death.

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  • by Twisted Taco on January 16th, 2010

    Twisted Taco

    I dunno. I've never killed myself

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  • by zazzy_one on January 2nd, 2007

    zazzy_one

    But...of course, that is not the only reason one kills oneself, I presume. Suicide bombers, the most prominent current events example, are people who believe not that they have nothing to live for, but that they have more to die for. Some believe that they will receive great glory in heaven for their acts.

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  • by John on March 4th, 2009

    John

    you could always ask them

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  • by C.A.Y. is rather confused about it all on May 10th, 2007

    C.A.Y. is rather confused about it all

    because sometimes in life, it appears that you really don't have anything to live for. At other times, people think that the people they hurt would only be hurt more i f they lived.

    When I first contemplated suicide it was because my dad was a workaholic and an alcoholic, my mom was addicted to prescription drugs, so no body was there, I had few friends, had been sexually abused for two years, and had no nearby family. No body ever noticed i was depressed until i wrote about it on the internet. It differs with each person though, And I thin you would really have to be them to understand.

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  • by Seethegrim on January 2nd, 2007

    Seethegrim

    This is a difficult one to explain to someone who sees no logic in suicide. There is none to explain.

    Its reaching a point so low in your life, you merely don't want to fight for what you cant seem to see anymore.

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