Discussion Do you want people to feel guilty about your suicide?

[LookingOverTheEdge]

Not at all

 

[iltloml]

No. I would want them to know I'm at peace. That's the whole point.

 

[fireball2]

It doesn't really matter to me, whether the people who didn't care about me during my life care about my death. I guess it would be nice if me dying pushed the handful of cruel & hateful people I've loved to become better people, because it could give my life/death some meaning, but all in all I just don't think about it much. My impulse to protect my loved ones from pain is much stronger than my impulse to make others feel guilty.

 

[Ashu]

No, and I've always worked hard to make sure that my people know that I hold no one but my own fate responsible for the shittiness of my life.

 

[GrumpyFrog]

I wouldn't want anyone to feel guilty about my death. The sad thing is that the people that are really cruel enough to push someone towards CTB or refuse to help someone when they are at their lowest usually are incapable of feeling genuinely guilty, and the ones who might feel guilty are decent people that probably aren't to blame. And once you're gone you no longer control the narrative, you can't influence anyone's opinion or explain anything when you're dead. So the best course of action is probably to let it go and accept that you cannot know or control what happens after you're gone.