Have you ever contemplated suicide? What is/was your reasoning?

No, I've never contemplated taking my own life, except after being forced to watch the "Graham Norton Show" on BBC TV here in the UK.

No. My middle son committed suicide, and as a survivor, nothing in this world could be worse. Nothing!!!
I couldn't put any others in a position of pure agony.

i tried several times several different ways. I think someone wants me here for the duration

Dear Nina Varganov,

The answer is YES, but for me there was no contemplation about it...I was extremely ill with no hope of recovery. Although the illness I had/have is now medically recognized, at the time (1990) it was considered hypochondria.

So I was alone.

What I now know 26 years on, is that we MUST just hold on...and then hold on some more, and then keep holding on still more. Illness, rejection, failure - the darkness - all part of the full experience of life and precious.

I hope no one I know in real life sees this, but I have many times before. I think it's because I started losing people really close to me before I could even register their departure. I don't see a point in my own existence. I don't tell people because I'm not too fond of the feeling of opening up. Most of my friends still assume I still have a father, when I've already lost two.

But I'm still here. Mostly for my mother. She has lost too much, and I wouldn't want her to suffer more than she already is.

Suicide--no.

Murder--yes.

Yes, seriously.

I came to the conclusion that neither makes sense (although suicide may appear reasonable to the person contemplating it).

(Remember killing and murder are not identical.)

I think about it all of the time, but I have no way to end it fast and quick. Lucky me that I can't afford to buy a gun with my background.

I watched my mom bury two of her children! HELL NO have I ever thought about making her bury another! In my opinion it is very selfish act but it is a growing epidemic unfortunately. For a person to feel so hopeless that death by their own hands is the only solution. My heart goes out to those who suffer that kind of mental torture. :0(

It is a lose lose situation all around. :0(

Once i thought about it but never attempted cause there was the time where i realized most of my discoveries of life's rules of law! Then i decided to win the life! Cause that's what i do! I win, i never give up!

Addicted father, fights everyday, lack of many things and so many pressures and feeling that you can't do anything cause you're just a child and the most important part of my future been taken away from me. Negative thoughts couldn't leave me but i forced them to leave at the end.

In January or maybe febuarury  of this year I ended up in hospital cos I mixed some heavy meds and alchohol .., It made me go completly off side and I don't remember a lot about those months except I was really sad ... I'm being treated for some post tramatic stress thing now ... Some people think I was trying to die in those months... I don't really know if I was ... Honestly. And I'm a mostly happy person so ... It's okay not to be okay sometimes.

No. I'm with Hippy here....as a survivor, it's not something I could ever imagine putting my family through.