Thread: erm.. coffin for one please.

If this thread hasnt been made before... I will be very suprised.

Why are so many of you young users suicidal? I keep reading posts ( i dont really want to quote them as i dont want to single people out but you know who you are) making comments that sound like you dont want to live. I also observe that the majority of said individuals are younger than 21 and come across extremely intelligent, hence will likely have a bright future ahead.. I mean wtf.

This concerns me..

GO!

World not good enough for me.

I'm too awesome to die, really.

It's the "Emo" generation that's all.

No but seriously some teens just have to put up with so much shit that it's utterly ridiculous. Others are simply stupid. Some think it's the only way out. Others are simply done with life. Others think it's the easy way out. The list goes on and on and on.

To each their own as they say.

agreed. there are so many problems, especially with rejection and/or parents. i personally had to deal with a bunch of crap that was dumb, and i won't lie, i thought about suicide. i didn't do it cuz i realized i have much to live for, but alot of people don't...unfortunately...

I while ago, the thoughts of suicide crossed my mind. But I had never seriously considered it. Now, my way of looking at things has changed a lot. We're all going to die eventually, and I'm in no rush to find out what happens then. There's so much to do while alive, and nearly anything can be accomplished with some good old fashioned hard work. I have so much I want to do, that suicide to me would be throwing everything away. In life there are a lot of difficult times, but from these experiences, we learn a lot, and come through the other side as better people. I try to look at the bad things as learning experiences, and ways to improve upon myself, rather than get discouraged that something bad happened to me. Although at the time, it is easy to be like, "oh son of a b!tch" and fret about things. Remembering to look back and take some lesson away from those times makes them more useful memories and less plain bad memories.

it's not surprising that a portion of the audience interested in lucid dreaming are doing it specifically to escape reality.

and...

the road to proficient lucid dreaming isn't a perfect one. there are going to be disappointments, so those escapists I mentioned might feel a sense of helplessness when they believe they're stuck in this world merely because they can't get lucid, thus being tempted with thoughts of suicide.

I see nothing wrong with suicide overall... it's your life, take it when you want.

However, I do see a lot wrong with people from my and my sister's generation killing themselves over completely asinine situations.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it's sucked the whole way chances are it's not gonna get better at the end and make the whole experience worthwhile. No one should blame you for walking out early.

That said, suicide should be a last resort after every kind of therapy, counseling, friends, family, sexual deviance, drugs or anything that could make life better has been exhausted.

Plus you need to take into account the people you would hurt by killing yourself.

But teenagers, shit.
Grow a pair.
Nothing's so bad that you won't bounce back from it in time.

Originally Posted by marlie

If this thread hasnt been made before... I will be very suprised.

Why are so many of you young users suicidal? I keep reading posts


GO!

I have yet to come across these posts. Are you talking about here on DV, or the internet in general?

I don't worry about death, or people that feel like they want to kill themselves. To me, life is whatever you want it to be, as long as options are givem to you. If you have access to these forums, you have options. If you want to kill yourself, fine, I'm not stopping you 'nor do I care that you want to kill yourself. In my opinion, the only people that should be killing themselves are the people on this planet that have to make a choice between whether they eat or their kids eat. People that live in Canada, US, Europe, etc, have nothing to fucking complain about, unless you were born on the streets and have absolutely no hope.

Originally Posted by Misbijoux

I have yet to come across these posts. Are you talking about here on DV, or the internet in general?

I am talking about this forum.I didnt want to single people out by quoting them, however should the individuals private message me telling me to use them as an example i happily will.( not likely to happen)

I don't see why people take life so seriously.

Originally Posted by tnemrot

I don't see why people take life so seriously.

exactly.

but yeah.
i think suicidal thoughts are just a by-product of looking at the world the wrong way.

i used to be really unhappy because i thought life had no meaning or purpose.
it took me a while to think:
"yeah..there's no set meaning. But..as apposed to what? Having a single purpose? one thing to devote your whole life to whether you like it or not? Fuck that."

“Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.”

Richard Bach

After all people seem to think that suicide is some great feat of willpower. That you have the strength to throw away everything you have had and could have. I cannot understand the logic beneath it, because living and breathing needs a lot more courage and strenght :/

For me that is the greatest courage ever, living and doing what you want without fearing of failure.

but well you cannot choose how and where you are born so at least you should be able to end your life if you wanted.

I have thought it often too, but I think I live with all the burdens I have gathered on my shoulders and with all those things I have slash'n burned.

EDIT : of course there are many cultural views to suicide and I am talking about suicides that are being done in desperation or with the "life sucks" attitude, like they usually are in Western countries.