Suicide outside my office

Gackt said:
Don't get me wrong, I have been through it. I was just commenting on the fact that people committing suicide in public places is going to cause undesired grief to a lot of people who would otherwise not have if, as you say, it was down in their own home. And yes, I can also understand the need to end the pain.

But the amount of trauma that person is going to cause a lot of others, possibly beyond repair, is something worth mentioning. What these unfortunate people don't realise is that their sadness and grief or whatever crap they're going through which they think they can't escape from isn't going to end if they kill themselves. It'll just be transferred to others. That's one of the reasons why I didn't - because I knew that it'd cause a lot of pain to a lot of people who didn't deserve that pain, as I didn't deserve it.

If you're going to be selfish and cowardly and end your life, then please, do it somewhere secluded, away from people.
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No doubt about the majority of your post, however is it really fair to call it cowardly? I don't think it's brave either, but I think cowardly is the wrong word. No?
 
Gackt said:
If you're going to be selfish and cowardly and end your life
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Not all suicides are because people are being 'emo'. What about people who have a terminal illness? They could be dying slowly and face an excruciatingly painful drawn-out death which will be hell on earth for both themselves and their loved ones.

A few people witnessing their demise doesn't even come close to what the victim in question is going through.
 
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wush said:
R.I.P. replies regarding people you don't know are the most shameless +1 posts
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I disagree and find that insulting, tbh.

Having been affected by the loss of someone close due to suicide, I can empathise with what the person must have been going through to go so far as to end it all.

This wasn't an attention-seeking exercise where someone swallows 4 aspirins and then phones someone claiming they eaten the whole pack. To commit suicide in such a way where there is almost no risk of not succeeding shows the level of despair that this woman must have reached... and how the only option for her was to end her life and thereby end the suffering.

I'm not a religious person and I don't really believe in an afterlife, but I sincerely hope that wherever this woman is now, and whatever her spirit (if such a thing exists) is doing, she is suffering less now than she had been until this morning. For this reason, I hope she can rest in peace because when she was alive she clearly wasn't at peace with herself. I hope this is the same for others who have committed suicide too, both those people I didn't know personally and someone I did.
 
I remember a girl at my college tried to kill herself by jumping off one off the roof of a 7 story building, but she failed as she landed on the dean's car and just severely mangled herself and the car.
 
vonhelmet said:
I actually read your post right after writing mine, and I concede the point, though I'd hazard that the majority of suicides are not to do with terminal illnesses.
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Perhaps not, but since we don't know why this woman killed herself (nor why she chose this manner to do it) I don't believe anyone here is in any position to be judgemental.
 
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vonhelmet said:
Yes, it's selfish. Yes, it's a permanent solution to temporary problems.
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Aside from terminal illnesses and such, what about depression caused by incurable chemical imbalances in the brain and so on. There's people that are severely depressed for years and years and years and no amount of therapy or drugs has cured them.

And does wanting to die necessarily have to be related to a 'problem'?, can people not choose to die through rational thinking and conclusion? Is there an objective definition as to what the correct state of mind is? How are you able to decide when someone is not in the right frame of mind to choose whether they want to die or not if that definition does not exist?
 
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