Posted by IsoM on December 2, 2002, at 10:35:42
In reply to Another suicide guys, posted by tina on December 2, 2002, at 8:44:24
Tina, I don't think it's courage - I think it's when all hope of any improvement finally runs out. I've talked to a suicide survivor.
It does take a certain amount of guts to finally decide to go through with it, but many times, some small thing, sometimes very small, will give someone a reason to hold on a bit more. For this person I mention, it was when things finally looked so utterlessly bleak, black & never again to have even a glimmer of hope that they tried it. They were finally so worn out & tired of life.
I'm so sorry for your friend. I think one has to have lost someone to suicide to truly understand the loss & forever lingering guilt that maybe something we could've done might have helped.Please, Tina, don't have that sort of courage. I don't really know you. If you were really gone & someone else kept posting in your name, I'd never know. But honestly, I don't want more to join the others like that. Please hold on.
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