No. Of course not. Maybe to the person they only see that option. That is common with depression, at least severe depression. But it is not.

No. Until it's complete, you can choose not to go through with it. After you go through with it, it's not an option anymore. Suicide is bad. If you feel like committing suicide, you need to call someone close to you to come and be with you. You need to talk to a therapist. If you feel like you may become a threat to yourself, you need to call the police. They will come and get you and stop you from doing it.

Certainly there are people who are in such chronic, persistent pain that it seems like the only answer. I know someone in this condition right now: in constant physical and emotional pain, who can look forward to a future of more of the same, with no realistic hope in sight. In addition, this person suffers from serious financial problems, is isolated and alone, and lacks the social support that many of us take for granted from family and friends. He frequently talks about suicide, and has planned and aborted plans many times. He's had lots of therapy, and medication, and long talks with everyone he knows. I do what I can to be supportive and listen, but in the end, it really is his decision to live or not -- and knowing what I know it's hard for me to drop into one of the familiar "permanent solution to a temporary problem" viewpoints. So I don't tell him "don't do it". I just try to listen and be a friend. Will he do it? I don't know. Should he do it? I can't really say... how can I judge another's pain like that, when I can't get inside their life and live it for a while? I do think this though: if someone doesn't have the right to choose death, they don't really have the power to choose life either. This has to be THE most fundamental choice any of us can be faced with.

No, never. There's always a way out. When you feel like your in the shadows, there's a light casting it. Never let yourself think or feel that it is the only way out. It's a shame some can't see it, but it's there. Don't let yourself be blinded. You know it's there, so look for it. Seriously.

Why do you ask? I think that suicide is an option, and it should be thought of as the last option, since it will be the last action you take.

I have heard true stories of people with cancers or with some specific, terrible medical conditions that make pain extremely intense and impossible to tolerate. There is no cure for those conditions, no pain killer will work, not even the strongest morphine...I can't imagine how bad it has to be. In those cases maybe euthanasia is the only alternative.

It may seem to be, but it never is if you ask me. Suicide is not the answer. It is a permanant end to a temporary problem. There is a Light and a Hope to keep us living in this world of darkness and suffering, and with that Light we can live a live on this earth in joy and peace even in times of hardship, grief, and suffering. I hope that this is helpful. -In the service of the Master. Thank you and God bless you!

Perhaps if you were a terminally ill person or if you were a "vegetable" connected to a machine. If that were me, I would definitely consider suicide.

If I had an invisbility cloak I would be so there in a second

According to my therapist

i always thought that it was the easiest option you know basically the ultimate way of running from your problems

No it is just a way out for some people.

Not really, but it's probably the best option.

It's always an option, but it's never the ONLY option. You always have the ability to choose to not kill yourself. But as I've always thought... no one has the right to kill anyone but themselves. It's your body, and technically you have the right to do what you want to it. And while someone may not agree with someone elses choice to kill themselves, we don't need to throw the word "selfish" out there, because EVERYTHING we do is selfish in one way or another.

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."

I know of only one occasion when it was. Samson had his eyes poked out and he was being made fun of by his enemies in a huge building. With the help of a child Samson placed his hands on 2 large pillars that held the building up. He knocked them down and by so doing killed himself and thousands of - I believe they were Philistines. If you still have both of your eyes, or at least one of them, suicide is not an option.

It is never the only answer, though it feels that way at times. I tried it 4 or 5 times (didn't succeed, obviously). Quite pleased that I am still here and my outlook has changed completely. I was drinking and cutting and life was as dark as could be. I saw no way out other than out of life. But that was really because I let the pain win, in a sense. I couldn't or wouldn't deal with the things that caused me pain because one of them was a person that I thought I loved and needed in my life. When I started to deal with the things that caused me pain, the pain lessened and life got better. I am by no means a Pollyanna - life still sucks on occasion. There are days when I want to crawl under the covers and under the bed and under the house and then under the ground. But those days are fewer and farther between.

When it's an emotional thing and not an end-of-pain thing, "Put down the gun and go to Italy." Then there's "The Fly" when a man was miserable over the death of his son and thought he'd never be happy again and was writing about it and then he noticed a fly had gotten a wing stuck in the ink and he got absorbed in the fly's struggle and forgot about his grief. I.e., change your focus. "Sing a new song, Chiquitita."

I've struggled with the quicksand of suicide, myself. You just have to fight really, really hard to reach out and tell a friend what your thinking and feeling. It is a very dark and deep place - contemplating suicide. I feel for anyone who does. It isn't the only option, though it often feels that way. Counseling, good friend/family support helps, sometimes even medication helps. Make sure to take care of yourself, getting enough sleep, eating a balanced group of healthy foods and doing things that you enjoy and relieve stress. Also, making sure to know what can trigger feelings of hoplessness or despair before you completely get to that place.

Simply put, life and living it is.

to some people it is. i belive suicide is never a solution. it makes too many people sad.

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Nope, I've been trying to kill myself for years now and have not been successful. There are so many things you probably still enjoy in life, if you do, then go and enjoy them. Real suicide will not happen if you constantly think about it. Most people keep it as an option but you can always just keep living, as long as you have food, if you don't have food, there's people who don't have food and still keep living and even those crazy folks downtown survive. If you are going to kill yourself do it because you have concluded that there are many other options, but you just prefer (or have rationalized) that you don't want this life and that even if you have every option available to you, you still prefer death. The only way suicide is your last option, is if death befalls you without your approval. Because a last option means that no matter what you do, it will happen.

sometimes it feels like it.

Only losers can choose this option!Fighters cannot!

Of course not.

I find these comments both far too simple and far too complex. Some of the responses are from people that genuinely care and others from folks that don't have a clue or are so shallow that they just don't give a damn. I could be the person described in the original question with the exception being that I haven't said much to anyone. But I do know I have reached my limit and I just can't take anymore. Believe it or not, it is the bureaucracy that will bring my downfall. Everyplace I have gone to seek help for a multitude of problems has blocked me out. I am so tired of being stonewalled and sent from place to place with no end in sight. It isn't worth it anymore. The way of the world today is "Survival of the Richest" and the rest can go to hell. Indeed, whatever I end up doing will be my choice, and I am leaning heavily on bailing out. Everything is in place just waiting for that last straw. And when I do go, I am going to be burried with my butt sticking up out of the ground so the world can kiss my @ss.

some times I thank yes

Sometimes there is no answer except suicide. People who say no are usually in a privileged position where it is easy to believe there is an answer to every problem. If your life has no meaning OR you are eeling very guilty for screwing things up and have been paying the price for a long time OR you are just too sick to live then WHY bother??