[lightman]

Those who complete suicide are so curved in on themselves that only their own pain matters...they are either dismissive of the pain their final act causes to others, or so filled with anger and bitterness that they relish the pain that they will be inflicting for generations to come.

[jmacusa]

Forty-two years ago the brother of a good friend of mine committed suicide at the age of fifteen. This was long before Prozac or any of that kind of thing. The boy was angry at his parents because they didn't like his girlfriend. People who commit suicide are not ''crazy''. They are extremely depressed and see or don't know of any other way out. I can assure it isn't to make anyone else suffer. I know. I almost took my own life twenty years ago until I understood what depression was and got help.

[Tammy8]

Most suicide notes say the person believed their loved ones would be better off without them.

[Arlis]

The truth sometimes is harsh. Those who commit suicide are truly hurting so much they can’t stand it. True.

Also true: suicide is the most selfish act, apart from murder, one can ever commit. Murder ends the life of another, for whatever selfish reasons one commits it. Suicide is murder of one’s self.

And the pain it causes others - usually for the rest of their lives - is the pain of the one who committed suicide passed on to many others; thus multiplied.

Better that one suffer themselves than cause the suffering of others and multiply it.

Character requires I suffer.

Selfishness requires that others suffer for me......so that I suffer no more......