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Revival time.
Now, I know someone (anonymous) who used to be suicidal. I don't mean immature attention seeking, I mean actually wanting to die because of a horrible series of events that nobody should have to go through. Of course I won't tell you what, in case that person reads this thread, and also because it isn't fair. So don't ask.
Now, the first world is obsessed with this idea of freedom. Freedom to do whatever we want. Freedom to do things which may not benefit us. For example: smoking, excessive alcohol, unprotected sex, and in this case, to take our own life. I suppose this could be considered impulsive human nature, to get what you want now without thinking about the future.
For most people these discussions are merely hypothetical, nobody knows what they would with 100% certainty until it happens to them. Myself, I am fairly adamant that I would never give up on life, it is not my way, but if something had happened to me like what happened to my friend, I might not be so sure.
This friend of mine was a very important person to me, I was the one this person came to when this person was upset, so I know the answers to "don't give up!" and such. "Don't waste your life" was followed by "My life was taken from me a long time ago, I just want to end the pain."
Nobody could imagine what I went through in that period in time, and I can't imagine what the person was going through. That just puts it in perspective.
The person was using a knife to cut wrists and throat, unsucessfully trying to commit suicide, it became fairly obvious to a lot of people what was going on. Of course, them being amazingly intelligent, they thought it would help to call this person names, and tell this person to stop attention seeking. This made it worse.
Now, it seems that all this pain this person had suffered would be enough for a justified suicide. But actually now we are good friends, the person is no longer suicidal, and the person feels like suicide is no longer necessary. I think that in a few years the person will look back and have bad memories about it, but that will be all.
The person can have a successful career now, marry and have kids, and effectively live happily ever after. The moral of this is do not give up.
Edit: I would just like to stress that I do not want any questions about the identity of the friend, you will notice I haven't included name, gender, age or if I even know them in real life.
[Edited on 1/30/2005 6:29:09 AM]