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Suicide?

Yes, I have attempted it.
5
8%
No, I haven't attemped it, but have contemplated it.
22
36%
Niether two. I'm just one big fucking ray of sunshine.
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20%
I've known someone who has thought/tried to do it.
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10%
I've known someone who has taken their own life.
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15%
I don't know anyone like that. We're all somewhat stable.
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11%
 
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Post by SAMAS »

Well, I know that it's painless.

And brings on many changes.

And that I can take or leave it if I please. :mrgreen:
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Post by UltraViolence83 »

SAMAS wrote:Well, I know that it's painless.

And brings on many changes.

And that I can take or leave it if I please. :mrgreen:
I think that's a cover done by the version I know by Marilyn Manson.

I should have fixed up the poll options better. How stupid of me to put two-parter questions together. :oops:

Oh well. Last time I tried to snuff it was over 3 years ago. I would clumsily cut my wrists horizontially, take a whole bottle of fucking ASPRIN, all sorts of silly things like that. I used to be very unhappy as well. I've gotten better, in the way that I never mention my thoughts to my friends anymore since the last time 3 years ago, and usually look on my death as a happy thing instead of getting all upset.

To the frankly honest, suicide is the most prominant option in the question of how I'll eventually die.
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Post by Howedar »

I've thought about what it would be like, but I never seriously contemplated it. More like idle mind-wandering.


I don't know anyone who has said they contemplated suicide.
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Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Huh? How hard is it to kill yourself? Why do so many people fail?
Because they are not serious about it. Someone who is serious about killing, whether it is themself or someone else will use a means that is extremely hard to fuck up(meaning it is easy) and at the same time lethal and will do it when they cannot be rescued. None of the pill-popping or people who slit their wrists but don't cut the right way or deep enough who are found shortly after really want to die, they want attention.
I know because I have had a friend kill herself. She went in her room when her folks were out of town and put a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Her mother found her late the next day when they got home, and it nearly destroyed the family. Suicide is for self-centerd chicken shit motherfuckers who are too fucking scared to live life and while I miss my friend, she is a coward for killing herself. What on this earth could be so fucking bad? there are all kinds of people who have had it alot worse for alot longer than any kid who has ever tried to kill themself
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Post by JodoForce »

I don't know, depends on what you thinks happens after life. Myself, I think you probably just gets reincarnated, and this makes suicide an attractive option at times--like, keep turning the wheel until you find a life you like. :?
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Of course next time you'd probably end up in a third-world African shithole...
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Post by Lord of the Farce »

SAMAS wrote:Well, I know that it's painless.

And brings on many changes.

And that I can take or leave it if I please. :mrgreen:
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Lord of the Farce wrote:
SAMAS wrote:Well, I know that it's painless.

And brings on many changes.

And that I can take or leave it if I please. :mrgreen:
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eh? I hope that a lot of people here means contemplate meaning thinking how it would be like but not thinking about it seriously.
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ArmorPierce wrote:eh? I hope that a lot of people here means contemplate meaning thinking how it would be like but not thinking about it seriously.
*hand up*
nope. I mean seriously
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Never tried to, and never really thought about it.
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Post by Tsyroc »

innerbrat wrote:
ArmorPierce wrote:eh? I hope that a lot of people here means contemplate meaning thinking how it would be like but not thinking about it seriously.
*hand up*
nope. I mean seriously
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Post by Shadowhawk »

I've never even considered suicide. Any problems I had were pathetic compared to death.

A classmate of mine, though, killed himself his Junior year in HS. Either walked in front of a train or put his neck on the track; don't remember which. No one had a clue he was that far gone, mentally. He was one of the real popular kids, smart and a jock. Guess he was able to hide his problems too well.

That same holiday break, another one of my classmates (one I actually ate lunch with for a semester) was killed when she was thrown out of the back of a pickup truck making a turn.

Both had memorial trees planted in a 'plaza' area of our campus. Pretty spindly things for a few years, but I saw 'em recently and they're looking quite nice now.
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