Good Article For Those Trying To Understand Suicide

[Sapphire]

I Attempted Suicide. Here’s What I Want Suicide Loss Survivors to Know

If your loved one could reach you now, these are some of the things they would want you to know.

www.healthline.com

 

[Angi]

Thank you for sharing. This might be the closest to a note I am going to get.

 

[Pentobarbital_Plz]

"We are not our thoughts — we're the people listening to them."

(The article quoted this)

 

[didn't-it-rain]

This is an excellent article, for anyone who has the energy to read

Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself

blogs.scientificamerican.com

 

[LivideLamb]

Thanks for sharing

 

[TAW122]

It's an interesting article and has valid points for survivors as well as trying to alleviate the grief and pain from the aftermath. However, one fundamental thing I strongly disagree is that "life is unquestionably precious". It is not precious at all, it is an imposition of sentience onto a once non-sentient being and said being is then subjected to circumstances out of their control and not what they want.

The survival instinct of humans and sentience is what keeps a lot of sentience beings persisting in sentience and it isn't rational (but that is another topic altogether).