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What would drive you to take your life?

For me, it would be my life partner cheating on me.

How about you?

Poll coming.

I'm not intending to commit suicide.

Being cornered by the Soviets in my bunker.

Having a painful, debilitating and ultimately lethal illness.

I don't think i'd ever really commit suicide, i might get extremly depressed over something, and think that life sucks, but i wouldn't actually commit suicide

Being cornered by the Soviets in my bunker.
I hate communism as well. just having to live in a communist nation would drive me to do suicide

Definately ongoing depression...which can still be caused by most of the above choices. But there comes a point when enough is enough and you just don't want to deal with shit anymore.

I hate communism as well. just having to live in a communist nation would drive me to do suicide
Ha... I was joking. You weren't. Hm.
No matter what, I hate Hitler more than almost any form of communism - excluding Pol Pot. However, you...
Wait a minute. Aren't you Polish? I mean, consider the dilemma you're presenting to the world...

Fuck killing yourself first, before you go down, you can take out a lot of commies with you too!

Being in an underground bunker surrounded by flesh eating zombies with my back against the wall and no way out, holding a pistol with one bullet left.

Bureaucracy is a bitch. If I'd ever commit suicide, it would be caused by bureaucracy.

Being in an underground bunker surrounded by flesh eating zombies with my back against the wall and no way out, holding a pistol with one bullet left.

Oh right. Zombie invasion. Yeah, I'd probably have took the less getting-eaten-alive way out long before it got to the point of my being cornered.

I would commit suicide if I was running from the law and was stranded on the top of a really high building

I would commit suicide if I was running from the law and was stranded on the top of a really high building
Let me guess: you'd hang yourself.

Other than in a possible Euthanasia type situation, I think that if I ever got emotional enough to do something that extreme, I'd kill someone else rather than myself.

I honestly don't understand why people kill themselves over, for example, bullying. If it ever got that bad, I'd kill my tormentors. And then, perhaps, kill myself. But they would die first.

ha more likely jump off :p

Other than in a possible Euthanasia type situation, I think that if I ever got emotional enough to do something that extreme, I'd kill someone else rather than myself.

I honestly don't understand why people kill themselves over, for example, bullying. If it ever got that bad, I'd kill my tormentors. And then, perhaps, kill myself. But they would die first.

If you attach a huge bomb to yourself and detonate it in the middle of your tormentors you take out 2 flies in one bang. It'll be a grand finale.

What would drive you to take your life?

For me, it would be my life partner cheating on me.

How about you?

Poll coming.
i used to believe it would either be the death of loved ones (in a twisted way: their death would mean i would no longer feel guilty about my suicide, allowing me to go ahead with it - i was depressed at the time), the loss of love or friendship with loved ones (same reasoning), or failing my year at uni.

i now realise that killing yourself over something as trivial in the grand scheme of one's life, as is the latter one, is stupid. life is the only thing we have that is truly our own.
and the others now strike me as equally stupid, but still kinda true. i try not to think about it nowadays.

Bureaucracy is a bitch. If I'd ever commit suicide, it would be caused by bureaucracy.

Fill out form# 222132A (b) 3334134: 'request to apply for a standard sucide form'.

Nothing that I can imagine.

Possibly if my house was destroyed, all my stuff stolen, my legs chopped off and my family and friends all killed. But barring some ridiculous situation like that, nothing.

I'm just waiting for my Imam to strap a C-4 vest to me and point out a bus full of infidel children.

I would sacrifice my life only if I would rest assured it was not in vain. To save many lives of others, or to make world a much better place (by suicide bombing, jumping in front of a bullet, fighting a battle that would be lost or something. Simply shooting my brains out could arguably make the world better place too, but let's not get into that...). I would be ready to die for the things I believe that are more important than my life. The freedom of my people, for example. Or a worldwide anarchosyndicalist revolution.

Or a worldwide anarchosyndicalist revolution.
You're an anarchosyndicalist? Sorel-like?

If you attach a huge bomb to yourself and detonate it in the middle of your tormentors you take out 2 flies in one bang. It'll be a grand finale.

Well, yes. But then I wouldn't get to see their lifeless corpses. So, it would probably be that I'd kill them somehow, and then detonate myself. Just because explosions are cool.

I seriously don't believe death can be better than life, even in the worst situations.

You're an anarchosyndicalist? Sorel-like?

I disagree with some of his thoughts... and think that those who actually DID something are more worth studying. Emiliano Zapata, Nestor Makhno, Buenaventura Durruti to name some.
If only theorists count, I'd say I'm more a Bakunin-like than a Sorel-like. Without the anti-semitism, that is.

I seriously don't believe death can be better than life, even in the worst situations.

Even if the life of your family or dearest friends would be saved by sacrifising yourself?

I'm just waiting for my Imam to strap a C-4 vest to me and point out a bus full of infidel children.
One's going past my window right now...
Oh, you missed it. Never mind.

I'd probably kill myself if I lost someone very close to me. I imagine I would feel extraordinarily empty, not able to feel anything but grief, and I wouldn't see the point in my continued existence.
Of course, it's possible that that may not be how I feel, in which case I wouldn't top myself.

As an agnostic (closer to atheism than theism), I wouldn't feel I'd be losing anything by dying. I believe that on death there is nothing, no afterlife, so it would simply be the end. There would be no judgement; as I would have nothing left to live for, I would take my own life.

I personaly think Suicide is the coward's way out.

I don't think I would commit suicide. Might have an "accident" though, killing myself and hundreds of others in a fiery explosion. Yeah, sometimes I mess up.

One's going past my window right now...
Oh, you missed it. Never mind.


DAMNIT! That cost me 10 Paradise Virgins. Shit. I gotta pay more attention.

DAMNIT! That cost me 10 Paradise Virgins. Shit. I gotta pay more attention.
You get deducted Paradise Virgins? Damn, I better not convert to Islam, I'd only have an old, well used pigeon by the time I got to heaven.

If you really mean, you would kill yourself because your partner is cheating on you, this would nominate you for the Darwin-awards.

Furthermore I doubt a bit about your self-esteem.


your local truth-dealer

You get deducted Paradise Virgins? Damn, I better not convert to Islam, I'd only have an old, well used pigeon by the time I got to heaven.

Yeah, the number goes up and down based on the sin. There's a pie chart in Qu'ran and everything!

Yeah, the number goes up and down based on the sin. There's a pie chart in Qu'ran and everything!

It's probably for the best anyway. I don't want too many virgins. Oh, it's fun at first. But after about ten virgins or so, I'm gonna want a pro. :)

Yeah, the number goes up and down based on the sin. There's a pie chart in Qu'ran and everything!
Hmm, better check that out. *opens a huge Qu'ran* Page 1... nope, not here.

Hmm, better check that out. *opens a huge Qu'ran* Page 1... nope, not here.

You have to do one of those MAD fold-in things with surah 12 and 46. It's one of those hidden secrets we're not supposed to tell you about.

Loss of hope combined with ongoing depression.

No suicide for me.
I've spent many of my 38 years trying not to die.

Even if the life of your family or dearest friends would be saved by sacrifising yourself?
That's not suicide.

Depression, not being satisfeid with my life in such way I hate it
or loss of a loved one. I couldn't imagine the sorrow when someone I really love more then anything, I hold dear more then anything, would suddenly be gone.

Once you've tried as many times as I have, one gets to realise that suicide is kind of pointless, and I might as well make more people miserable by staying alive. Thus, I have determined that I will never commit suicide, unless in blowing up the entire Multiverse out of spite (or if someone tells me, "I bet you'll never dare to commit suicide.").

replying to this thread

*goes to get a gun*
there isnt one, so whacking myself with a banana

still alive, but covered in bananna,

anyone want to lick it off
ull want to commit suicide

a never ending circle of death

would like to think i'll never wanna or be able to commit suicide but you all missed out debt, apparently that huuuuge thing at the moment, GMTV said so ha. And if i commited suicide it'd be ongoing depression BECAUSE of all the above...but i'd probably just take it out on other people rather than myself, its the kinda girl i am. :)

Im really scared cos what i awnsered in the poll has actually happened to me :eek:

my wife cheated on me once. with my best friend.

and for a few hours that night after they both left my house, i contemplated jumping into traffic.

i found the experience rather interesting... i'd never been pushed quite that far before.

we all commit suicide in one way or another. either by eating at mcdonalds or just expecting to grow old. death is an illusion, so the question of suicide is rather moot, in my humble opinion.

Im really scared cos what i awnsered in the poll has actually happened to me :eek:
:eek: You mean you suddenly have a desire to become a suicide bomber?

My ex ran off with a dude i have to sit next to and be civil toward 3 hours a week.

I:
Took an overdose--->failed.
Cut wrists----> failed, its an urban legend really.
Took sleeping pills and lay down on railway lines -----> failed, amazingly i woke up and jumped away.

Hung myself.----> Failed, the neck didnt break and the rope snapped
Almost jumped off a building but didnt cos im fucking weak minded.
Tried the urban legend pencil suicide (doesnt work, just hurts like fuck)
and finally i tried a vodka overdose, only to have my Irish and Russian genes kkick in and save me.


...
:D

My ex ran off with a dude i have to sit next to and be civil toward 3 hours a week.

I:
Took an overdose--->failed.
Cut wrists----> failed, its an urban legend really.
Took sleeping pills and lay down on railway lines -----> failed, amazingly i woke up and jumped away.

Hung myself.----> Failed, the neck didnt break and the rope snapped
Almost jumped off a building but didnt cos im fucking weak minded.
Tried the urban legend pencil suicide (doesnt work, just hurts like fuck)
and finally i tried a vodka overdose, only to have my Irish and Russian genes kkick in and save me.

I know it's evil of me, but that entire list is very amusing.

I know it's evil of me, but that entire list is very amusing.

Nahh its ok man.
If i was really going to do it i'd use the morphine i got stashed and overdose on a cocktail of aspirin, anti-depressants, sleeping pills and painkillers washed down with vodka and absinthe.

I know it's evil of me, but that entire list is very amusing.
Truth. :p

My ex ran off with a dude i have to sit next to and be civil toward 3 hours a week.

I:
Took an overdose--->failed.
Cut wrists----> failed, its an urban legend really.
Took sleeping pills and lay down on railway lines -----> failed, amazingly i woke up and jumped away.

Hung myself.----> Failed, the neck didnt break and the rope snapped
Almost jumped off a building but didnt cos im fucking weak minded.
Tried the urban legend pencil suicide (doesnt work, just hurts like fuck)
and finally i tried a vodka overdose, only to have my Irish and Russian genes kkick in and save me.


...
:D
pencil suicide? i'v never heard of it, but are you glad none of that worked?
why did you have to be civil? shouldda taken it out on the dude.
cheating sucks, just be glad your rid of em sooner rather than later.

Nahh its ok man.
If i was really going to do it i'd use the morphine i got stashed and overdose on a cocktail of aspirin, anti-depressants, sleeping pills and painkillers washed down with vodka and absinthe.

Sounds awfully complicated. Apparently the best way to go is an insulin overdose.

Go find a diabetic.

:p

Suicide? No way. My will and self-control are too strong to go through with something like that.

Cut wrists----> failed, its an urban legend really.
i tried that one... i have since learned the correct way of doing it. something i'd rather not know, really :-S

i tried that one... i have since learned the correct way of doing it. something i'd rather not know, really :-S
Ooh! I know! You have to cut down the forearm, not across the wrist. Pierces the artery (or vein?), there aren't any pesky bones to interfere, and it doesn't take as long. After that, you have to squeeze the arm just below the elbow to force as much blood as possible out of the cut and prevent the wound from clotting before you bleed to death....


What? :D

Ooh! I know! You have to cut down the forearm, not across the wrist. Pierces the artery (or vein?), there aren't any pesky bones to interfere, and it doesn't take as long. After that, you have to squeeze the arm just below the elbow to force as much blood as possible out of the cut and prevent the wound from clotting before you bleed to death....


What? :D
correct (not sure about the squeezing bit though... you don't want to give yourself a tourniquet). you win a cookie.

it's poisoned. har har har...

don't be silly, your all depressing me. i went through a phase similar at least, y'all just need to get off your arses and do something. get out. =) ooo go running in the mornings, its free and fatless and it makes you feel dead good lol. =S its a best habit to get into...unless your me and manage to pull a muscle in your tummy.

don't be silly, your all depressing me. i went through a phase similar at least, y'all just need to get off your arses and do something. get out. =) ooo go running in the mornings, its free and fatless and it makes you feel dead good lol. =S its a best habit to get into...unless your me and manage to pull a muscle in your tummy.Blech...sweating.

Boredom has been left off the list.

Ongoing depression. Definitely.

correct (not sure about the squeezing bit though... you don't want to give yourself a tourniquet).
No, a tourniquet would be to stop the blood flow. This is to force more blood into the area. Then again though, it could cut off circulation to the arm, so you'd just end up with one useless arm....

(I ought to know this, myself.)


you win a cookie.

it's poisoned. har har har...
Mmmm, poison! In an act of generosity, though, I'll give my cookie to someone who doesn't need it, i.e. someone who is perfectly satisfied with their life right now.

Any takers?

me?
worse thing going on for me is my mate having an appendectomy (mate being lad im obsessed with)
and iv lost my i pod
and im feeling peckish
gimme!

pencil suicide? i'v never heard of it, but are you glad none of that worked?
why did you have to be civil? shouldda taken it out on the dude.
cheating sucks, just be glad your rid of em sooner rather than later.

Pencil suicide.

(sharpens pencils)

(places pencils face up in a vice.)

(slams eyes onto pencils.)

No. Im still suicidal and the only time im not suicidal is talking to her.
When i talk to him i contemplate murder.
I once brough piano wire with me.
...

About the only way I'd consider suicide is if I had some serious health problems. Or if I were really, really bored! ;)

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach

Where there is love, there is pain.

Love rules without rules

Love tells us many things that are not so

Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies

Ah, so its Her. Him and Her are just out to torture us lol, I try concentrating on the bad stuff but when you love the bad stuff about em, its hard. Luckily for me though I get to say I'm only 14, they'll be others. I could never commit suicide, I'd feel like I was missing out on too much. =)

and pencil suicide sucks. I really wish I'd never asked lol. If you really wanted to kill yourself though, I think you'd be dead by now. Guns and tall buildings and all that, anyway apparently suicide is the cowards way out. you may not care...
thanks to this thread, i'm gonna stop telling people to 'Go play in traffic!' ha sorry lol ;)

Boredom and powerlessness, almost certainly.

Boredom would cause people to kill themselves? WTF?

Loss of my mental faculties.

I'm not sure I could commit suicide, but if I ever were to do it, it would be because my boss drove me to it. God, I hate that woman.

Hell freezing over.

I'll never commit suicide, NEVER.

Its funner this way.:evilsmirk:

Boredom would cause people to kill themselves? WTF?

Not frivolous boredom. Not "oh, this book I have to read is boring" boredom. I was thinking long-standing, constant, devastating boredom that I am powerless to counter without resorting to means I deem unacceptable.

I don't like mondays.

No single one would do it, though if a couple of them happened too near each other it could cause me to become suicidal and at that point anything could set me off.

if some hairy gross man fucked me up the ass and cut my manhood off i would kill myself no questions asked:(

I cry foul.

You didn't include chemical dependency as one of your suicide options.

if some hairy gross man fucked me up the ass and cut my manhood off i would kill myself no questions asked:(
But this, of course, only if the man is fat and gross.

This is a stupid question.

Studies have shown that over 90% of people who die from suicide have one or more psychiatric disorders at the time of their suicide.

Suicide is rarely a mere "choice."

Hmm...

Not because of depression, or any sort of stupid self-centered personal thing that is pretty much just narcissistic self-victimization.

If I killed myself, it would be...
-Because I was diagnosed with a terminal disease and it was getting to the point that I wouldn't get anything out of life anymore. (Alzheimers, cancer, etc).
-Because it would somehow protect people. (If I were somehow in debt to the mob for some reason and I needed to protect my family's future).
-Because I was sent to prison for life and it's between getting raped every day and dying.
-Because I was about to get captured by enemy soldiers and if they captured me they might be able to use a combination of torture and sodium pentathal to learn things I knew about national secrets and such.

Basically, either if I will not have any more happiness for the rest of my life, or if I'm somehow protecting other things I care about.

I don't like mondays.

Best answer possible.

Too bad most won't get it -- maybe this will inspire them to Google it.

Best answer possible.

Too bad most won't get it -- maybe this will inspire them to Google it.
Boomtown Rats?

Hmm...

Not because of depression, or any sort of stupid self-centered personal thing that is pretty much just narcissistic self-victimization.
.

I hope you did not mean to imply that mental illness -- i.e., clinical depression -- is "pretty much just nacissistic self-victimization."

If you did mean to imply such a thing, your ignorance is appalling.

Depression compounded by other things would do me in.

Boomtown Rats?

And the inspiration -- Brenda Ann Spencer.

And the inspiration -- Brenda Ann Spencer.
Hm.
A more specific reason would be "It's a gloomy Sunday".

Loss of interest in life, I've already decided if at any point in my life I realize I don't have/want anymore I will kill myself... saves the waiting. I hate waiting.

I'm suicidal right now. The reason is that my beliefs and desires are too out of place in this world and there is so much legislation and hatred against it and that I'm still single and no-one wants me for the reason I just stated. the only thing preventing my suicide is my cat and my mentally disabled brother, who would both be devastated if I died, plus i'm waiting for a cool new computer game that won't come out until 2007. :(

If it weren't for those three, I'd be dead by now, I guess.

I've spent the last 2 months in and out of the hospital. Sucks to be me so depressed and hating life I suppose...:confused:

If i was raped or about to be raped. I'd rather die.

I'll never commit suicide...
I've stared into that abyss before, and came out again. I've seen what attempts and successes do to families and friends of those who would act to take their own lives.
It's just not worth it.

What would drive me to suicide? My life.

Ongoing depression. I probably would have already done it, if I wasn't so afraid of death...

"I will never die."~ Gary Johnston, Team America: World Police

Having a painful, debilitating and ultimately lethal illness.

yep. yep. that would be mine.

Not frivolous boredom. Not "oh, this book I have to read is boring" boredom. I was thinking long-standing, constant, devastating boredom that I am powerless to counter without resorting to means I deem unacceptable.

Oh........

probably nothing ever. possible exceptions would generaly be to avoid an otherwise unavoidable more painful death, mostlike from an incurable disease, starvation, where not having my mouth to feed might improve other's chances of survival, unavoidable victimization by genocide, those sorts of things. unless you want to count getting shot down for what i believe in, but even that would not likely be entirely voluntary.

(dieing for a cause too often does too little for the cause to be likely to be worth it, that or the cause turns out not to be what you thought it was)

=^^=
.../\...

I would definetly commit suicide over death of a loved one (after taking revenge IF she was murdered), rejection, or ongoing depression. Rejection is pretty much number one for my case of suicide...

I'm just waiting for my Imam to strap a C-4 vest to me and point out a bus full of infidel children.
Fly a plane into a building. That's more dramatic.
Oh wait. That's been done. We need to think of a more original and catchier way of Ker shuffling violently off this mortal coil.

Ooh! I know! You have to cut down the forearm, not across the wrist. Pierces the artery (or vein?), there aren't any pesky bones to interfere, and it doesn't take as long.
to put it more succinctly:
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to put it more succinctly:
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Link's broken, mate.

If I was no longer able to acquire antidepressants, I would proabbly kill myself. Unless someone was responsible for myself being unable to acquire antidepressants, in which case I would kill myself in a roundabout way after being shot to death while ripping that bastard's throat out.

If I was no longer able to acquire antidepressants, I would proabbly kill myself. Unless someone was responsible for myself being unable to acquire antidepressants, in which case I would kill myself in a roundabout way after being shot to death while ripping that bastard's throat out.

Your life is not very happy, is it?

There is nothing that would drive me to suicide. There are things I would risk my life and die for, but the willing destruction of self is the only thing I find to be absolutely unacceptable.

Copper Sulphate in the vein!

If my love cheated on me. I would be very tempted to commit suicide in that circumstance. I might do other drastic things as well, such as murder (and then suicide). I just don't know, because I'd be such an emotional wreck.

The cause would be exhaustion, and a general unwillingness to further invest in this pointless life.
Tiredness, one could call it.

Easy, depression. Those other things I believe I could generally shrug off.

What would drive you to take your life?

For me, it would be my life partner cheating on me.

How about you?

Poll coming.

I don't think cheating is much. I care not where people get thier pleasure including ( my if you want to call them that ) partners.

And yes I know what is and isn't legal. I just don't understand this cheating thing.

Took sleeping pills and lay down on railway lines -----> failed, amazingly i woke up and jumped away.

Surely if you actually wanted to die you could just lie on the tracks without pills, and just wait for the train to come instead of jumping away?


Anyway, the only circumstances under which I'd commit suicide would be if I was certain that I had a terminal illness. I wouldn't be euthanised, cut my wrists or any of those other lame methods - I would make sure my death was both original and hilarious.

Your life is not very happy, is it?
My life is fine. The chemical imbalance in my brain is not.

Definately ongoing depression...which can still be caused by most of the above choices. But there comes a point when enough is enough and you just don't want to deal with shit anymore.

Well said; kept me from having to write it!!! I agree 100%!

My life is fine. The chemical imbalance in my brain is not.

Oh......

What would drive you to take your life?
the only situation I can see is if I realized that my continued exsistance was a threat to my loved ones.

The cause would be exhaustion, and a general unwillingness to further invest in this pointless life.
Tiredness, one could call it.
hit that point once... but couldn't find the strength to do myself in...


but after a quick nap, everything looked better so...

Well, I won't count a number of things, such as dying to save a loved one, or dying for a cause, since I don't consider them suicide.

Suicide, to me, means that having looked at all possible scenarios, and projecting the best possible outcomes, you'd still rather die.

There's nothing that would push me that far.

However, I have already vowed that on my 100th birthday, I will be jumping out of a plane at 20,000 feet with no parachute.

I'm gonna have a little fun before the end. :)

hit that point once... but couldn't find the strength to do myself in...


but after a quick nap, everything looked better so...

I guess I'd have to sleep for about a year or so... ;)

I guess I'd have to sleep for about a year or so... ;)
well... if you need a bed to crash on... :p

I guess I'd have to sleep for about a year or so... ;)Now that it's been mentioned, when I was depressed, I took to going to bed really early and slept as much as I could.

well... if you need a bed to crash on... :p

*lol

For an entire year? Sleeping beauty-style? Only, in my case more like sleeping beast?

:D

*lol

For an entire year? Sleeping beauty-style? Only, in my case more like sleeping beast?

:D
oh stop that... there is a reason why I never posted a pic of me.

I break cameras.

oh stop that... there is a reason why I never posted a pic of me.

I break cameras.

Well, stop dropping them then. And now you only made me curious to see a pic of yours.... :p

So, come on, post one. Or TG me one.

Ooh! I know! You have to cut down the forearm, not across the wrist. Pierces the artery (or vein?), there aren't any pesky bones to interfere, and it doesn't take as long. After that, you have to squeeze the arm just below the elbow to force as much blood as possible out of the cut and prevent the wound from clotting before you bleed to death....


What? :D

dip the wound in warm water it will keep the blood flowing and prevent clotting

Being cornered by the Soviets in my bunker.

Being cornered by my enemies in a house will make me to commit suicide.
Better dead than falling alive into their hands.

What would drive you to take your life?
Stupidity.

Not in others; I mean, would have to be entirely stupid to do this thing.

Well, stop dropping them then. And now you only made me curious to see a pic of yours.... :p

So, come on, post one. Or TG me one.
I don't drop them, they leap to their deaths from my hand... or the hand of whomever is taking my picture... or from the tripod... or security camera...:D

For me, it would be my life partner cheating on me.
I wouldn't commit suicide...I would commit murder...:sniper:

I don't drop them, they leap to their deaths from my hand... or the hand of whomever is taking my picture... or from the tripod... or security camera...:D

Security cameras falling wherever you go? That mmust be quite a sight...
So, if you can't show a pic of yourself, show us a pic of one of those suicidal cameras, if we are to belive you :D