The Seven Benefits of Suicide
Disclaimer: Don’t freaking kill yourself. See #4 below. “Sure, something might’ve helped, maybe the next thing you tried, the next person you talked to.” Hang in there, because anyone who has lived through suicide attempts or suicidal thoughts knows that nothing looks the same tomorrow as it does now.
So. You’re thinking about ending it all. You’ve lost hope for a better day tomorrow.
Researchers have found that your thoughts come from depression, which can be treated, or it can get worse.
But if you’re depressed, does it do you any good to have professors tell you so? You probably already know. You know better than anyone. What nobody tells you are the benefits.
- Suicide leaves one less person to make the world better. So there’s one responsibility that’s not hanging over your head any more. When you’re gone, that is.
- When you’re gone, whatever caused you to lose hope can’t reach you any more. It can move on to someone else (debts to your estate, bullies to one of your friends, etc.), but hey, that’s not your problem any more, is it?
- When you’re gone, every one you know may wonder – helplessly – what they might have done to make your world so dark. Or they may wonder what they didn’t do to bring the light back. But hey, you can leave behind a note for that, can’t you? You might have to make it a long note, or even write a Thirteen Reasons Why, but you can give it a few days to get that done before you go.
- When you’re gone, no more expenses to your family for psych evaluations, anti-depressants, or any of that stuff. It didn’t help, though, did it? Sure, something might’ve helped, maybe the next thing you tried, the next person you talked to, but that’s such a hassle, isn’t it? Not any more.
- When you’re gone, you leave behind the long sadness – a grief from which some who know you may never recover. But that isn’t really all that much different from when you were alive, is it? Weren’t you leaving everyone miserable everywhere you went already? So OK.
- When you’re gone, you miss what you may have done after. A machine to regenerate optic nerves? A cure for cerebral palsy? A prevention technique for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? An irrigation system for Somalian farms? (As in Andy Andrews’ The Traveler’s Gift.) Talking someone out of another bullycide? Maybe. Or just MAYbe you miss the last episode of your favorite show, or a test in geometry. Nobody knows what may have been, and maybe nobody needs to, right?
- When you’re gone, you can’t score. You can’t have sex, you can’t have a relationship, you can’t find love, you can’t find friendship, blah blah blah. And you miss all the complications that come with all that, don’t you?
Jimmy Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/
Seven benefits to suicide. Heck, the world may be a better place after you’re gone.
Or not.
Ready to talk sense now? Suicide is a permanent, irreversible, irrevocable treatment of a temporary problem. And like we said above…
Suicide leaves one less person to make the world better.
You have my permission to copy this article wherever you want, as long as you don’t change it, and as long as you retain this note showing me as author. – Ron Graham
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October 12th, 2011
Life sucks for people. Some people take out their suck on other people to try to forget just how much it does suck. Some people are more sensitive to the suck in general and having the extra suck of bullying dropped on their plate makes it even worse. A lot of people don’t see an end to the suck, so they decide to do one last act of suck to escape the suck, which sucks for those they’ve left behind. Some people think that at the other end of the suck there’s going to be something better, but whatever brought about the world of suck that we live in, isn’t likely to let anyone get out of the suck no matter how good they may have been (not just relatively or subjectively). Moral of the story: Life sucks, but suicide sucks more.
October 24th, 2011
Hi I was recommended to your page because of my opinions on suicide and how I have been touched by it by my son committing suicide due to bullying, a friend just said you’ve got a bite of sarcasm to you, due to a post i put up on suicide (I hope she said that to be on the good side, anyhow this is what I put up on there I do put good poems up too, but this one is sort of what you put up there.
If you think your life is crap,
If you think your ugly,
If you think the world hates you,
If you think no matter what you do its all wrong,
If you think that jumping off a bridge would solve your problems,
If you think no one cares,
If you think just hide from everyone,
Well I hate to tell you yes life sucks but there is always tomorrow, inner beauty is better than any beauty, the world doesn’t hate you- you hate the world, nothing is wrong just try a bit harder and it will work, jumping off a bridge will not solve your problems it just passes them on to someone else, people care about you just ask for help, if you hide no one knows there is a problem come out and ask for help.
Help to prevent suicide post this on your page, (This is my own little poem I did as I have been there and know how it feels, but I opened up and got help, so don’t say you don’t know as there is a lot of people who do know what you are going though).
September 8th, 2012
I somehow didn’t see this Kathleen. I have to say I’m glad you’re with us, and that you appreciated the sarcasm.
October 24th, 2011
This is a great comment. When things suck that much, perspective change is necessary. It sucks getting it started, but it sucks much less once it is underway.
October 24th, 2011
That last was a reply to Johnny R. This to Kathleen – Thank you so much for sharing your poem!
September 8th, 2012
I agree very much with what you said, however, every time I’ve personally thought of killing myself it wasn’t one single instance or bad day. And I think with a lot of suicidal people it’s like this. It’s maybe one particular event that brings you over the edge, but a lot of people are already there.. I’m suicidal. Everyday I think unlike anyone in my life. It’s a big empty space in my hearr that makes me feel like I don’t belong and you can’t really talk to anyone about it. People say seek help. Psychiatrists cost money, and family will never be able to understand completely. I’ve tried, they look at you like you’re completely crazy. I tried to tell my mother she would say I’m inventing things and I’m silly or too weak and bothered by things, that I think too much. My boyfriend looks at me with horror whenever I get in this state, and this is way too often to be healthy. I feel empty, useless, exhausted, physically and mentally. No one really gets it because its abnormal and ridiculous. I get that when I try to look from the outside which is why I still haven’t committed suicide. But that doesn’t mean that its not a struggle every day to keep going. And I do it out of the hope that maybe tomorrow I’ll feel different. But I keep ending up here, in this same sad state.
September 8th, 2012
Sarah, there is a book called Mind over Mood: Changing the Way you Feel by Changing the Way You Think. I was diagnoesed with depression and anxiety in my 20′s, and it really helped me. I know what you mean about how a lot of people don’t get it.