I'm living proof that you can get through problems, it's never easy and a lot of the time you will think that you'd have been better off killing yourself; but when you finally claw your way out of the hole you'll look back and think how f*cking stupid the whole idea waas.
I agree totally.
I don't think it's cowardly, I think of it as a person with their back to the wall and no other way out. I also believe taking your own life is amazingly brave. The only time I ever considered it, I went upstairs, found my dad's shaving razor, and looked at it for a minute. That thing is really, really sharp. I cannot, just cannot, imagine placing that to my jugular and pushing til I've lost my strength. I physically, mentally, and emotionally could not do it. If you can go through with it, I pity you for the series of events that place you in the position of facing that choice, but I also admire you for bravery.
Selfish, depends how you define it. When you consider suicide, and you look at the glint of steel against your wrist, there is no one in the world you are thinking about more than yourself. The suffering and emotional trauma that lead to that point make it that way, that's just how it is. It might be selfish, because you are willing to put your own peace of mind (or lack thereof, whatever) ahead of your family and friend's pleas, but that's all circumstance also. If you're considering suicide, you are either childish and don't understand the consequences, or life has been so bad that you are willing to face utter oblivion rather than keep on living.
I have never known anyone to attempt it, though I'm sure everyone has considered it at one point or another. It's simply something that everyone has to come face to face with sometime in their lives.
I understand Kijayle/Samantha and believe most of what she says, except for one point, which arises from a difference of circumstances. Contrary to the law of averages, life has been pretty good to me so far. Knowing nothing of her life other than what I have gleaned from her and Admiral Brea's posts, it might not have been so good to her. But if death is inevitable, I may as well get something out of life first. I can understand that maybe she wasn't getting anything out of life.
I feel your pain all that have lost someone,
and I tell you to keep at it anyone considering it,
and I say congrats to anyone who has considered it and already made it past that.
Jake