Help How to address friends & family in suicide note?

[Moby]

I want to minimize the trauma as much as possible. I love my friends and my family. I love my past partners.

I simply cant bear existence anymore. Entirely due to my own choices. There is Nothing anyone can do or say that will change that. How do I minimize the pain for those i leave behind?

 

[Sslsh]

Nothing you write will minimize the trauma. The best you can do is to be honest and just write whats on your mind. I usually write suicide notes when I am extremely depressed (only to dispose them later because I do not have the balls to ctb yet). I list the reasons I want to die and about my depression, in about a couple of pages, and then end it with 3/4 lines of apology to my parents (they are the only people who would care anyways). I DO NOT write shit like how much I love them because that would be the last thing they would want to hear. I only blame myself and apologize to them for the pain that they would feel.

 

[Walilamdzi]

I just tried to express the happy times that I have had and my love for them.

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

In order to minimize pain, I would write that it was my choice and bore no reflection on others (but only if that were true). I would write that I am aware of how much pain this will cause and would have avoided it if at all possible but that the pain I was experiencing outweighed all other considerations. And I would tell each person in their note the things I valued about them, and the positive impacts they'd made on my life and that I see them make in others' lives.