Do you know anyone who committed suicide?

Kill urself no dont lol

I have not. I've just known of people who committed suicide.

I've struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts most of my life. I wrote this in a thread last year:

My fear is that someday, something will happen that will feel like the last straw in that moment and the despair will overwhelm me. I've struggled with suicidal thoughts, off and on, for 2/3 of my life. Been hospitalized several times for it. It's been a long fucking battle. I'm tired. And I just feel like there is going to come a time when I won't be able to handle it anymore

And it both pisses me off and scares me, because I genuinely enjoy life and being alive

A friend's sister blew her brains out. First, I was told it was an accident. And then a few years later my friend admitted there was no way it was an accident. She did it while she and her husband were hosting a small holiday party. She excused herself to the attic and shot herself in the head.

You post so much stupid shit, OP.

yes

“hung himself”

Oh, DEAR!!!!!

Yes. A co-worker who was bipolar. His life had fallen apart and he was on house arrest. He jumped off a bridge. He was incredibly sweet and handsome but very lonely. A lot crashed down on him and he didn’t realize his future would be ok. Probably was off his meds as well.

Another guy I knew years ago hung himself because his girlfriend dumped him. He got drunk, went into his backyard and hung himself from a tree. And it was sickening to see her play “widow” for attention. She was an emo cunt.

Also, my mother’s best friend threw herself in front of a train a few years ago just like her father did in the 80’s. I forgot about it cause I kind of block it out until I remember it, as I grew up with her and she was like an Aunt to me.

Yes.

But for some inexplicable reason they thought it was murder.

The correct word is “hanged” himself

A friend’s dad killed himself that way

Sadly, yes. I had an uncle who drove his car and himself into a tree.

Knowing my aunt, I can't blame him.

A FB was a train conductor. He finally left the profession because of all the people he would committing suicide by throwing themselves in front of the train

A friend of my ex. He had a thing for me, and after I broke up with my ex, would try to get me to go on a date with him. I think I was kind and friendly but I wasn’t receptive to his advances as I simply didn’t find him that attractive. Later I learned he and my ex were fucking (hopefully not when we were together but I have my doubts). His life had spiralled out of control and he’d been convinced of manslaughter as he killed someone in a car accident. It was about a year later he killed himself. I felt strangely, irrationally guilty in a strange way. He had a heap of issues. I felt a bit bad that my not being interested in him maybe added to them, that maybe I should have tried to be his friend. But anyway, that’s what happened.

*convicted of manslaughter

r12, yeah, women are always responsible for what men do, right?

Yes, and I’m still toothbrushing her brains out of the grout before the open house.

No, not always, R16. But this one was.

I needed some personal/professional favor and a friend of mine said he knew someone who could help me. I sent that guy a message and he replied back and said he would gladly help. The favor was made. I sent him a thank you message and told him if he ever visited my town I would be happy to receive and meet him and even I invited him to visit the country I was living in at that time (We were in two different countries). He was really courteous. Two years later I asked my friend about him and knew he committed suicide. No one from his close circle ever expected something like that. He had a brilliant career. Sad.

The mother of a friend I grew up with killed herself on Christmas eve in the 80's. My friend was already being raised by her grandparents as her mother had sold her as a baby to a couple and her step father went and bought her back. He took her immediately to her grandparents to get her away from her mother. The mother shot herself in her car on Xmas eve and left no note, only an address book with my friend's address and name circled. Selfish bitch. Her parents never believed she killed herself...kept asserting that someone had murdered her (no evidence at all of this but people will refuse to believe in mental illness sometimes).

My father attempted suicide 3 times while I was growing up. It was an attention ploy whenever he thought he wasn't getting enough attention from my mother. Lit a car on fire and threatened to get into it when I was about 5 years old, then when I was 12 he locked himself in the garage, turned on all his gardening equipment (he was a gardener) and laid down on a pallet. My sister figured out what was happening and rode her bike to the school where the rest of us were watching my brother's little league game and frantically told us what was happening. We raced home and when my mother opened the garage, he was lying on the pallet wearing a mask and my mother started beating the shit out of him. He left, turned on a bunch of pesticides in his van and locked himself inside. The police found him and took him to a mental hospital. When he got out, he showed up to the house with a gun to kill my mother and she fought with him over the gun and someone called the police. He never went to jail because this was in the 80's when women had to press charges and my mother didn't.

Throughout my life, my father has called me several times saying he was suicidal. The last time he called me was back in June of this year when I was struggling to live after a cancer diagnoses. Told me he was thinking about suicide and I told him to fucking do it. I am over it. I told him, "It wasn't enough that you terrorized your kids by attempting to do it when we were young that now you think you have to do it while we're older?" He hung up on me, then called me back (I didn't answer) and left me a message saying he wished he never had kids. I blocked his number and haven't spoken to him since. All four of his kids only continued to speak to him due to fear. This was a man who let the house where his kids lived be foreclosed on out of spite when my mother filed for divorce and he fought having to pay child support for us. I keep waiting for him to get the balls to actually kill himself but he never will as he's the biggest pussy I've ever seen.

I didn't really know him, but he sent me coupons.

Yes. My BF’s mother shot herself the day after our high school graduation.

A lawyer I worked with also shot himself.

Both were with shotguns.

Yes. But to this day I believe it was an auto-erotic experience gone awry. Maybe that's what I need to tell myself and prefer to see him laughing his ass off in his final seconds at how stupid he was rather than being in such deep despair. He actually would have been the type to laugh about it.

What a wonderful wonderful man he was.

I knew three gay men who killed themselves during the worst of the pandemic – one hanging, one OD (he was an addictions counselor trained in harm reduction, so I can’t imagine it being accidental), and one method that was never confirmed to me.

A very dear friend who had several physical and mental health issues jumped off an overpass onto a highway.

I also knew a girl in high school who wanted to stage a “suicide attempt” to get her parents’ attention, but the attempt was a little too successful.

A guy I knew in high school told me about how his father drove to a nearby beach with his shotgun one night and blew his head off.

Mom remarried at some point. This husband took his gun to the same nearby beach, and, well, you can guess the rest.

Man in my neighborhood jumped off a high rise office building. He was a married, father of two. No one understood why, but wife mentioned he had been acting funny in the months leading up to his death. He was pressuring the wife to go back into the workforce, despite him having a great job and her doing great as a stay at home mom, who volunteered a ton at the school.

Neighbor’s daughter OD’d (suffered from depression)

Great grandfather poisoned himself (his daughter dishonored him, ie committed fornication) and he couldn’t stand the shame.

And three separate young men who shot themselves (unrelated incidents, but all were feeling family pressure for not being overachievers). Yes, all Asian.

Septimus Smith

Yes, many. Not anyone close to me, but acquaintances and friends of friends.

The one that affected me most was a child who was in my child’s class who jumped from the roof of his Park Avenue apartment during the Covid times. For days, a cloud of sadness hung over our community. He was 12.

Lots of people: acquaintances, a friend, several relatives. And I know several people who fortunately survived attempts.

The saddest, most senseless deaths were those of kids (a tween and two teens) who felt like they couldn't burden anyone else with their problems.

I did, but we seemed to lose contact afterwards.

Is surviving an attempt a good thing?