I haven't known a girl to do it.
Suicide Page 3
They're telling jokes on the British Suicide Guide, if anyone's interested...
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ May 4 2013, 10:42 PM BSTHow can you bloody drown deliberately. Trying not to suffocate is a reflex. I don't understand that.
I can't swim. If I jumped in the Clyde, I'd be a goner.
Quote: David Smith @ May 4 2013, 10:45 PM BSTI haven't known a girl to do it.
I've known 3 people and 2 of them were women.
Quote: Ben @ May 4 2013, 10:42 PM BSTThe thought did pass through my mind a few times during a hellish period of my life. It's not like I was planning anything, but there was a fleeting thought of "I could swallow that box of pills and it would all be over".
Same here. I had my "hellish period" a year and a half ago. Before that people who commit suicide were cowards or something for me. But during that period I learned to understand the people who can't take it anymore. Like Ben I wasn't planning anything...but the mental pain was sometimes almost unbearable so I tried to imagine how it would be to end it at once.
Quote: Ben @ May 4 2013, 10:42 PM BSTThe thought did pass through my mind a few times during a hellish period of my life. It's not like I was planning anything, but there was a fleeting thought of "I could swallow that box of pills and it would all be over".
The week we shot Missing Scene wasn't THAT bad.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ May 4 2013, 10:49 PM BSTSame here. I had my "hellish period" a year and a half ago. Before that people who commit suicide were cowards or something for me. But during that period I learned to understand the people who can't take it anymore. Like Ben I wasn't planning anything...but the mental pain was sometimes almost unbearable so I tried to imagine how it would be to end it at once.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ May 4 2013, 10:49 PM BSTSame here. I had my "hellish period" a year and a half ago. Before that people who commit suicide were cowards or something for me. But during that period I learned to understand the people who can't take it anymore. Like Ben I wasn't planning anything...but the mental pain was sometimes almost unbearable so I tried to imagine how it would be to end it at once.
Yes. I remember standing looking out on the back garden and thinking I understood why some people do away with themselves and their families. Life was pretty bleak at the time and I didn't know how we'd get through it. But hey ho, here we are.
Quote: keewik @ May 4 2013, 10:35 PM BSTThe trouble is, if they didn't work you could be left in a very bad way and still alive. I wonder if drowning is the only sure way.
I supose it all depends on the chance you have of been saved or found. You could pass out from lack of oxygen trying to drown yourself, but be rescued an bought back to concsiouness but have still suffered brain damage.
I never tried anything but as some others said a few years ago I got to the point of thinking it would be nice if things just ended. I thought of cutting or pills and alcohol. Something that scares me a little is how easy it would have been for me. At the time I was living by myself and would sometimes have 4 or 5 days between work shifts and wouldn't really see anyone between times. I haven't told anyone this before now.
Quote: reds @ May 5 2013, 6:30 AM BSTpills and alcohol
Sounds like Keith Richard's breakfast in the 60s & 70s.
But seriously:
Quote: reds @ May 5 2013, 6:30 AM BSTSomething that scares me a little is how easy it would have been for me. At the time I was living by myself and would sometimes have 4 or 5 days between work shifts and wouldn't really see anyone between times. I haven't told anyone this before now.
I think it's easy if you really want to succeed. People who get "saved" didn't really try to do it properly...their "attempt" is a cry for attention/help imo.
Suicide has apparently declined in Australia since they banned guns. Last year I saw a woman jump off a pedestrian overpass, onto a busy road. Hit an SUV and then run over by a bus. Quite dead by the time police arrived. Could have caused a bad accident if she'd gone through a windscreen. Better to choose a quiet spot. Or read a book instead. I remember years ago when a prominent poster on the official South Park forums committed suicide. I don't think anyone joked about it. Which was nice.
Quote: Sinon @ May 4 2013, 10:46 PM BSTThey're telling jokes on the British Suicide Guide, if anyone's interested...
Missed this thread.
And I identify with so much of it, loneliness and despair do sometimes just seem to slip up on you. You think you're friends and loved ones will be around for ever, but they leave or move on. You think work will be fine but it changes. Wine turns to vinegar and you don't notice till you're gagging on the bitter taste.
But thinks do get better usually.
And suicide is so easy to get wrong, the human body can survive broken a great many experiences.
What a pity our minds aren't programmed to block all thoughts about the future. Then we wouldn't be able to imagine all the awful things that can happen.
I think suicide puts a lot of pressure on people especially if they have deep pain.It is anxious for some people.
Living in the moment?