Painless Ways to Commit Suicide

Painless Ways to Commit Suicide
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions

Aug 03, 2008 – Suicide isn’t the goal society or your parents had hoped for you, but you’ve set the bar because you can think independently and have enough self-confidence to believe in your decision. My opinion though, is that suicide isn’t the best way to die. My preferred method of execution is either old age, or being taxed to death, generously and patriotically supporting the needs of your community and your country.

Because you have little time remaining, allow me to give you a friendly tip to save you some of that precious time. Suicide is severely similar to murder. If this how-to document doesn’t give you the answers you’re seeking, don’t spend your time Googling “painless ways to commit murder.” Murderers are an ill-bred lot who are unlikely to be concerned about the amount of pain they inflict on their victims. Generally speaking, they lack the typing skills necessary to create web pages due to their possession of itchy trigger-fingers, hands cramping from clutching knives too tightly, or suffering of pulled muscles caused by throwing murder weapons into rivers.

A good method of implementing your imminent demise is to make yourself a target of assassination. Choosing this technique, you’ll avoid the nuisance involved with having to obtain any tools which would otherwise be required. In addition to that benefit, opting to permit capable, professional assassins to plan the details and logistics in matters regarding the imposition of death is often a wise decision.

Begin investigating high-profile politicians. Conduct your research through legal channels, please (I can’t be held responsible for what you do or what I write). You’ll need to look for something hidden, some skeleton not yet released for public viewing, something for which they haven’t yet been caught or apologized. Common things for which to look: sex-related or money-related activities, illegal drugs or illegally-obtained pharmaceuticals, something to do with toilets and honey, or how well their pastor conducts religious services.

If viable blackmail material can’t be discovered, consider bluffing. Call your Congressperson; inform him or her that you’re a registered voter, and that you’ve recently acquired evidence of who conspired in the assassination plot of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Within sixty seconds your doorbell will ring.

From that moment, you’ll have approximately three seconds to decide whether to proceed with your plan or jump through the nearest window. If you live on or above the second floor, emergency egress through your window is not the best choice in your current medical condition, however, it will provide a better chance of surviving than answering the door carrying a friendly and hospitable demeanor. To elaborate – your surprise guests haven’t come from the high school loaded with candy bars to sell.

There really are no truly painless ways to commit suicide. After you kill yourself, people who knew and loved you will live on in pain. One may argue that because they’d be experiencing emotional pain, suicide would be physically painless, however, I believe that to be a weak argument. If, on the other hand, you feel everyone hates you, I hope you found this handy survival guide informative, and that it helps you kill yourself in a pleasant and joyful manner. Don’t forget to hit the light switch, power down your computer, and visit your friends, family, bank, employer, doctor, and your local law enforcement agency to say goodbye.

Addendum – Aug 21, 2008:

MPR Midmorning: When grief won’t go away
Scientists have determined that the brain may be biologically hardwired to keep us from getting over the death of a loved one. Midmorning discusses the kinds treatment available for this intense bereavement.

42 Responses to “Painless Ways to Commit Suicide”


  1. 1 Annette Alt August 6, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    You write about suicide like it was a cure for the common cold. I am not saying that this is unfortunate. I am saying that you write about it with ease and some knowledge of past experience of the subject. That’s unfortunately, fortunate. You have turned around the bad and made it humorous. At your point in time, I believe it’s healthy. Now if one of your readers had recently experenced a loss due to a loved one’s sucide threat or actual suicide it probably wouldn’t be funny to them. Actually, suicide is not funny really. But you have lived through it, around it, over it, and under it, which gives you authority. And with that authority comes opportunity to share what you have learned with the community at large.
    WOOWWSER!

  2. 2 Andy Alt August 6, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    Yes, if anyone has the right to make jokes about suicide, which isn’t really what I’m doing, it’s me, who lost my father to suicide when I was 8 years old, and who has tried suicide twice before.

    And if one goes to Google, searches for painless ways to commit suicide, there are real pages – and tons of them – devoted to giving serious instructions or actual tips on how to do it. I’d rather they get a page like mine that has very poor instructions.

  3. 3 chato October 4, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Andy, I understand your angst attitude, that fact that your still alive tells me your a survivor and we seem to be in the same boat in some ways… I like to use humor to heal, and sometimes that means highlighting things that are just taboo to every one else.

    Still, I have a hard time joking about this subject…. not because I don’t see humor with it… but rather I know not every one could see the humor I see in… LOL

    I just did a cartoon about it… this is the closest I could get to the subject…

    http://mentalhealthhumor.today.com/2008/09/19/mental-health-humor-china-bans-bunny-suicide-book-special-post/

  4. 4 Andy Alt October 5, 2008 at 2:02 am

    Chato, I don’t believe every one should try to be funny about it, or that everyone should laugh about it, no matter what context suicide is in. For instance, I’d worry about someone if he joked about a sibling’s death a week after it happened. I’d say if you’re not comfortable making an attempt combining humor with suicide, then don’t. Be yourself, cause if you try to be someone else, you’ll wind up more depressed.

    Of course, there’s a line that must sometimes be crossed

    All greatness is achieved while performing outside of one’s comfort zone.

    I don’t know where that quote is from. Anybody else know?

    Chato, I’ll check out your site some and try leaving a comment. I was there over a month ago but had problems with comments. I saw you post about a problem with comments, but was unable to resolve my dilemma. One problem I had was there were two form bodies when posting comments. I didn’t know which one to use!

  5. 5 chato October 5, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Thx Andy,
    it’s true no one “should laugh about it, no matter what context suicide is in”. It is no laughing matter, still there is a need to be able to breach the subject with others in order to educate people about the subject. There are way to approach the subject tactfully that can be a humorous and even helpful. It is the stigmatization of it that should not be perpetuated.

    I am comfortable combining humor with suicide, if it is done right and is respectful… It is a subject that needs to talked about and help people to build resources and a support network that if they are ever in suicidal that can turn to for help.

    “even in laughter there is sorrow”, that is the idea i try to keep in mind with the cartoons…

    “All greatness is achieved while performing outside of one’s comfort zone.” That is credited to Greg Arnold, but I’m sure he stole it from someone… LOL

  6. 6 Andy Alt October 11, 2008 at 2:32 am

    Maybe a main reason we find ways to combine humor and mental illness, suicide, is only to help raise awareness and to make approaching the subject more “welcoming” or “inviting”, in order to help those who can’t talk about or deal with it to move ahead a little. Sometimes it’s best not to face something or work on moving ahead, but it’s important that it be done eventually, and when a person is “ready.” Even after that, it’s a gradual process. For me, it’s 27 years and I’m slowly but steadily dealing with my father’s death. It’s something you don’t “get over,” but face and deal with, and hopefully what’s been learned can be applied throughout one’s life.

    You see how I accidentally switched from first person to third person when writing that? My little way of distancing myself I’m sure. It’s still not always easy for him to talk about my father’s death or how he or I deal with it.

    I’m just making up my own crazy theories as I go along. After all, I only live once.

  7. 7 zania October 13, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    I preferred the original bunny suicide cartoons to the toned down version….

    A liking for ‘dark humour’ is something some have and others do not, but to say you cannot display it just takes the subject underground.

    I see where Chato is coming from as I read his post, but I think that ‘censoring’ our thoughts (published and unpublished) is not a good thing. Yes, there is responsibility for others to consider, but it seems to me that certain thoughts expressed publicly are only seen as wrong or ‘irresponsible’ when others have a particular (often political) point to make.

    But I guess that’s way off the original subject here…

  8. 8 Jane October 14, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    Interesting post Andy. I liked it and quite agree with you humour and all.

    One thing the uninitiated will never quite understand about suicide is that suicide is all about you and your pain.

    The thoughts of the feelings of the the friends and family of the suicidal are utterly insignificant and of no concern whatsoever.

    The threat of said folks being effected negatively is a pathetic manipulation tool used by the would -be (wannabe) suicide counselors on the end of those ridiculous suicide hotlines.

    Which begs a personal question I’ve always wanted to ask. How dare the friends and family call themselves ’suicide survivors’. What is that bullshit?

    A suicide survivor is a poor soul who unintentionally survived a suicide attempt through some factor such as poor planning or bad luck.

    None of those family members have a right to call themselves suicide survivors unless they too have survived suicide attempts.

    It is suicide, not homicide.

  9. 9 Andy Alt October 15, 2008 at 9:08 am

    @Zania

    But I guess that’s way off the original subject here…

    No worries, eh. I’m looking forward to this: Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate

    Looks like IntenseDebate will make wordpress.com discussions and commenting easier for those of us with no desire to be bothered by installing php or perl message forums and having hosting on our own domain. That’s me, by the way.

    As for censoring our thoughts. I disagree. I have to censor my thoughts all the time. :) I actually do censor myself when I write sometimes, believe it or not. I have limits. There are some things I’m just not comfortable about putting out into the public eye.

    I don’t think people should censor other people’s thoughts! :) Damn government messing with me again...

    So, Zania, mark it down as the first time I disagreed with you. I have a feeling you didn’t exactly mean it the way I read it… however.

    @Jane
    Jane, thanks for the comment, always nice to get some new blood around here. I usually scare people off at some time when I stop censoring myself.

    I was actually told by a social worker, when I was on a 72-hour hold for a suicide attempt, that it’s a coward’s way out. And another one of the staff said to me, “Tell her again about the plastic bag, that’s my favorite part” with a smile on his face, indicating I should tell the story of my attempt to his co-worker standing next to him.

    At one other place I was on a hold, they were going to lock up one of the guys in isolation because they felt he was getting out of hand. Of course when they threatened him with it, he got even more agitated. So I sat down on his left (the staff member was standing 20 feet away then on our left), and I just started talking with him. I basically ignored the presence of the staff guy, and started talking with this “out-of-control” fellow, who was in his seventies, by the way.

    After a minute or two, the guy calmed down, and the staff member left to do something else and forgot all about the incident.

    So that little story was fairly unrelated to your comment, but I doubt anyone will care, including myself.

    I’m flattered when people ask me questions, and yours didn’t sound rhetorical. I’m glad to oblige with an answer.

    Your tone sounded like it really bothered you here:

    Which begs a personal question I’ve always wanted to ask. How dare the friends and family call themselves ’suicide survivors’. What is that bullshit?

    What exactly bothers you about making the statement about being a suicide survivor? I understand that, as you said, it’s not as though they survived a homicide. I don’t know if any of those suicide survivors would compare themselves to survivors of domestic violence, rape, or attempted murder. I don’t know if they would attempt to minimalize or degrade what other types of survivors go through.

    No one on my family has ever used the term when speaking of our father’s suicide. But I could see where it could be used. In a different way than a survivor of something else, but then that’s just one of those dictionary words then that have multiple or related meanings.

    But you said that it would be okay for someone to call himself a suicide survivor if he’s been there, as in attempt. (Correct me if I misunderstood you on any of this.
    So that would apply to me. But my previous two attempts aside, sometimes it feels like I’ve been through a war, dealing with my dad’s suicide and the aftermath, and the path I’ve taken in life stemming from the intersection my dad created when he shot himself.

    For clarity, I don’t know first-hand what war feels like, because I’ve never fought in one

    I’m sure I would have made more suicide attempts if people in my life had not been around to talk to: family, friends, co-workers, even one of my employers. I had one job for seven consecutive years because my employer was incredibly lenient with his allowances for my performance. I was an outstanding worker, sometimes was asked to supervise and train employees, I helped improve and implement existing and new procedures. But I had terrible attendance, I was late sometimes every day of the week (5 min to 2 hrs commonly), walked off the job (sometimes without notice) five to ten times during my seven years, had outbursts on occasion that interfered with the work environment (nothing serious like damage to equipment, but raising my voice in argument), and twice didn’t show up for work (didn’t bother to call in).

    So I “survived” through the kindness of others, through support, through understanding, which if I hadn’t received, I’d be quite dead by now, I’m certain.

    But I don’t mind if someone’s family or friends of any person who committed suicide want to call themselves survivors. Everybody knows it’s different from being a survivor of rape or attempted murder, or any similar incidents. No one is downplaying what they go through. That is to say, in my experience. If you have something that disagrees with this, please share it.

    When I was younger, I knew a fellow who, as a child, saw his Uncle kill himself. His uncle committed suicide before his eyes. If a person can survive the rest of his life without being tortured by that image, or having that trauma later contribute to his own suicide attempt, I could call him a survivor (I haven’t spoken with him in years, only knew him casually).

    Jane, I hope that answered your question. Obviously it’s only one man’s opinion, and I only had since yesterday when I received your comment to think about it. :)

  10. 10 Jane November 9, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    you ever the see the movie Butterfly Effect Andy?

  11. 11 Andy Alt November 13, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    Yes. I’m a big science fiction fan, and liked Butterfly Effect. I’ve seen it a few times. But it’s also very disturbing so I plan on not watching it again. I liked the ending on the Director’s Cut better than the ending on the theatrical version. I thought Butterfly Effect was based on a book, but couldn’t find it. I only found the novelization of the movie, which interests me as much as a hole in the head.

  12. 12 Jane December 6, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    “I was actually told by a social worker, when I was on a 72-hour hold for a suicide attempt, that it’s a coward’s way out. And another one of the staff said to me, “Tell her again about the plastic bag,”

    A plastic bag was involved in my last suicide attempt. I was told by a 24 suicide hot line operator that not only was it the cowards way out, but that I was a selfish person for not thinking about how it would make my family feel.

    thing is it was the hate and abuse from my family that had precipitated this in the first place. I told the operator that he failed at understanding me or preventing my suicide that night and after a few more choice words I hung up on him and soon there after made my first attempt at the age of 14 more certain after the call than before it that this was the right thing to do

    “What exactly bothers you about making the statement about being a suicide survivor? I understand that, as you said, it’s not as though they survived a homicide. I don’t know if any of those suicide survivors would compare themselves to survivors of domestic violence, rape, or attempted murder.”

    I think my comment at the end ‘it’s suicide not homicide’ really sums it up. I don’t know if such people do either but thinking about them doing so is when I get irritated about it. I feel like the two words connected, suicide survivor almost evoke that similarity by the very fact of how we read language.

    “When I was younger, I knew a fellow who, as a child, saw his Uncle kill himself. His uncle committed suicide before his eyes. If a person can survive the rest of his life without being tortured by that image, or having that trauma later contribute to his own suicide attempt, I could call him a survivor (I haven’t spoken with him in years, only knew him casually).”

    it’s a tricky thing comparing one person’s misery to another. Since I started talking about suicide on youtube Ive heard from more than a few people all over the world that witnessed things like that. Personally, that’s never happened to me.

    Take a different example. The sounds of one parent encouraging the other parent to beat a child. Then for that child to be beaten in front of the other children. Try to imagine the screams. If you are having trouble with that.

    I have a video I made with just such a recording. I made that recording after the child abuse investigators failed to see anything wrong in my family. That recording is merely two minutes long. That particular episode that I recorded lasted much longer than two minutes.

    That kind of incident was sometimes a daily event in my home growing up for years. The sounds of those screams including your own, echo in your mind long after playing again and again like a broken record. like the fellow who saw his uncle, these sounds, the voices and screams and images haunt you in your sleep and replay themselves across your inner eye all the time.

    “But my previous two attempts aside, sometimes it feels like I’ve been through a war, dealing with my dad’s suicide and the aftermath, and the path I’ve taken in life stemming from the intersection my dad created when he shot himself”

    that statement is what led me to ask you if you had seen Butterfly Effect.

    I remember a Robert Heinlein short story about a time traveling hunting expedition to kill a Trex. One of the hunters fell from the time path and crushed a butterfly. The entire world was subtly different when the expedition returned to their own time.

    I love the movie the Butterfly Effect. It disturbs me too and I have re watched it several times to understand what and why that is. I like both endings although I know the directors vision was supposed to be the real one.

    I guess one of the reasons I love the theatrical release is that it parallels in some strange way what happened to me,

    For the longest time I thought that death, killing myself was the only solution to how bad I fucked up my life again and again. My life should have had the director’s version for an ending.

    The phrase, ’stemming from the intersection my dad created when he shot himself’ is a kind of event like Butterfly Effect.

    What if someone came along and took you and the chap that saw his uncle shoot himself and taught both you how to release yourself from the prison of trauma. How to stop hearing those screams or seeing that image of someone kill themselves in front of you.

    If we substituted you for Ethan in the movie. You find yourself with the ability to go back in time. You go back in time and hand your child self a book on how to recover from death and loss. How might that have changed your time line?

    I am very lucky. I gained exactly just such a tool one year after my last suicide attempt. With that tool I was able to go back through my memories. Examine every last line of code in the matrix that made up my personality. I then applied that power to every trigger I could find.

    After a few years of doing this, I was no longer plagued by my PTSD anymore.

    No more dressing in all black and chain smoking in the dark while listening to The Cure or Nine Inch Nails. It more like Pink Floyd’s ‘Coming back to life’ and ‘Learning to Fly’

    Now if you had such a tool in your possession. If your fellow had that tool in his possession. If you both gained the power to liberate yourselves from the past would it not be a tad self indulgent to consider yourself a suicide survivor? Knowing it could be done, would you not be compelled to try?

    I’ve been practicing meditation for over 20 years. I got involved with it at age 13. In some ways it made me worse. I learned techniques that made my mental energy race and contemplating my existence, I realized that there really was no real reason to live for anyone. It’s sheer luck we are alive at all. There is no obligation to continue living whatsoever. I understand that through contemplation.

    I can make a case that a great many people who think they know meditation are really just deluding themselves. Around the age of 20-21, in the face of a near death experience I realized that seven years of doing meditation had not helped me at all.

    Then I had critically reexamine what I thought meditation really was. I started all over as novice. I turned to Taoist meditation because Taoism seemed the only sane philosophy out there. Taoism does not dictate codes of morality or behavior nor is it concerned with reincarnation. I did not care to be a Buddhist or get into the whole thing.

    Taoism is really ontology. The study of the here and now and our current experience of our ongoing interactions with our inner world and the outer world around us. After two years of relative seclusion to practice the inner dissolving techniques of Water Method Taoism my depression was gone. After another three years the mania was gone too.

    Eventually every single mental health symptom from the voices to the ptsd reflexes was handled using meditation. Years later I find that researchers of meditators have discovered that it effects the prefrontal cortex and builds connections in the frontal lobes.

    One of my earliest meditation heroes was Spock. I remember Kirk coming into Spock’s quarters and seeing Spock in his robes meditating. I was always attracted to the idea of a monastic lifestyle growing up and similar things like going on walkabout or spirit quests. After my last suicide attempt I decided to do things differently. To live differently and follow the calling of my heart.

    That was an intersection in time for me that led to where I am today.

  13. 13 susan December 25, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    This is serendipity. First of all, my friend Kevin suicided this past September- he went in front of a train.

    Secondly, I just blogged about an actor from the Sopranos who suicided today. I suffer from bipolar, but the last couple of months, mild depression turning to suicidal despair.

    It is all I can do some times to hold on hold the cat tight or my teddy bear and just fight it.

    I should get off my ass and do an entry on this…… painful as it is.
    Thank you for the inspiration.

    p.s. I love Bugs Bunny. When I was a girl I wanted to be Mel Blanc. I even managed to do some voice work – because I wanted to be Mel Blanc. He really, really was the best voice over artist of all time.

  14. 14 Ana December 27, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Hi Andy!
    Thanks.
    The comments to the post SSRI addiction is closed.
    But this was the first time I came to your blog.
    Have a nice Sunday.

  15. 15 Andy Alt December 28, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    It should be back open now.

    I hope you had a good Sunday. :)

  16. 16 praying for death... February 10, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    I am soooo sick and tired of praying for death, begging God to take my life. Im really tired of waiting, but I’m afraid of doing it myself, don’t think I’m strong enough,but wish I could be. In the meantime will continue to pray. It gets me furious with God can’t he get it!
    I wish someone would take all my organs up for donations!!!!!!!!!!!

  17. 17 Annette Alt February 11, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    Looks like a hot topic. Lots of posts. Hopefully someone will have been helped or brought to tears laughing.

  18. 18 Alot of don`t want help February 19, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Just out, its not right that beings would want to stay, yeah don`t have an answer for that one do you? No counseling, no spiritual healing no nothing, just want the hell out at what ever cost, thanx I knew their was no answr for that one, see ya on the otherside.

    infowars.com

    prisonplanet.con

  19. 19 Really Want To....... March 2, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    I really want to, and as a matter of fact I want my parents to feel like crap. I came on here looking for a way to do it painlessly. I have read lots of storeys, I want to soooooo bad but i just don’t have the guts, nor strong enough rope. I just want it to end its driving me crazy!

  20. 20 Tam March 4, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    I have suffered from serious depression and mood swings constantly over little things the last few years and i’m on cipralex but doesn’t seem to help; it doesnt seem to go away… lately i have been contemplating taking a few bottles of sleeping pills when i am alone…..and writing a note… i feel like my personality is always going to be glum and depressing… my significant other has even given up hopes i can be happy… so when does it getter better? if it does at all?

    • 21 Andy Alt March 4, 2009 at 8:39 pm

      I started meditation last September. It’s been helping, although it’s a slow process. I often quickly become interested in things and then lose interest, but I’ve stuck to meditation more or less. It’s given me some hope. Lately, I’ve been better able to explore my anger, it’s causes, then deal with it to release it. For me, much of my depression comes from anger.

      Also I need to work on accepting my faults, which are all part of the human condition. Once I accept my faults, I can more easily accept faults in others, and therefore be less critical, thereby further reducing negativity which is often a contributing factor to depression.

      Exploring one’s negative feelings are important, not hiding from them or denying them. Facing them can cause pain and anguish, but like a physical wound you must feel the pain in order to heal from the pain.

      Explore them, but don’t dwell on them. Do it in a productive way. Be honest with yourself, accept the pain, try to figure out how you can deal with it in a rational manner.

      Sometimes the pain is too much to handle at the present time, in that case I divert myself to other things and hope the next time it’s something smaller that I can explore, deal with, and let go. It’s all about small steps really. I don’t expect sudden “breakthroughs” anymore, just baby steps toward progress.

      The causes of depression and suicidal thoughts are complex so there’s much more I could write, but I’ll end it here for now.

      I’d recommend books on the subject of meditation or researching it on various Internet sites. Currently I own the books Meditation for Dummies and Meditation as Medicine.

      Pharmaceutical drugs can help, but often times they do not. It’s a frequent occurrence that one feels that he or she isn’t receiving benefits from taking a pill. I can’t give you any statistical data on success rates because I don’t believe any accurate statistics are available.

      Meditation, however, has been around for thousands of years.

      Let me state for the record that I’m not a therapist. I’m not a football player or an orthodontist either.

  21. 22 Anonymous March 20, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Sometimes i just dont know how to deal with the pain. . .

  22. 23 Andy Alt March 26, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    I also forgot to explicitly state that there are much better sources than I for understanding and learning about meditation.

    Bipolar Recovery

    Meditation page on Beyond Meds

    Wildmind Buddhist Meditation

    And though I haven’t read these yet, books Jane recommended to me (which I recently ordered): Tao meditation books, ‘Relaxing into your Being’ and the followup ‘The Great Stillness’ by Bruce Frantzis

    Another book I’m working on is “Meditation as Medicine”
    Activate the Power of your Natural Healing Force
    By Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., and Cameron Stauth, with a foreword by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Renata presented it to me for my birthday.

    • 24 veela March 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm

      :) yes, and I have in my possession (however neglecting to read at the moment): “Let Go, A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits”, by Martine Batchelor (author of “Meditation for Life”).

  23. 25 Anonymous April 24, 2009 at 1:41 am

    hi all i m in love with one boy he can’t understand my feelings. now a days i m very depressed what should i do in case i just want to commit suicide.

    • 26 veela July 14, 2009 at 7:34 pm

      dear anonymous,

      if you are still depressed over the boy you like, that doesn’t understand your feelings—just talk to him and try to be friends and hang out. dont worry too much about feelings, love, romance, dating, ect…just be yourself and try to hang out on a casual basis. after time, if feelings become mutual then great. if not and he’s not interested, thats fine too. above all, just keep your sanity, love and care about the person you are–and sooner or later, when you least expect it someone special will come around. believe me, boys aren’t everything…don’t let them drive you to distraction. confidence is key.

      just food for thought…take care

  24. 27 anna May 21, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    hey,i find humor healing to,i’ve attempted suicide about thrice……n tried several methods each time,i usually make fun of it n it’s pretty helpful,bt it’s not all that funny for some people ,like u said. to me though every failed suicide attempt opened new doors,changed my life n perceptions,got people in my life closer to me e.t.c though all the times i really did intend on dying,just
    i was too young to know how to lol………i can’t imagine how the people who’ve lost loved one’s to suicide feel though,esp. if they really loved them,bt all the times i commited suicide it ws because i felt noone loved me or cared for me so why bother pushing myself through the pain.

    • 28 Andy Alt July 9, 2009 at 1:38 pm

      Anna, glad to see you are still around, and have been able to gain some new perceptions and stuff. Thanks for the comment.

    • 29 veela July 14, 2009 at 7:35 pm

      yes, thanks for your words anna!

  25. 30 mystery June 8, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Suicide is no laughing matter……

  26. 31 terry June 19, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    No one listens….. No One..!!!

  27. 32 Josef July 7, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Help me, please

    • 33 Andy Alt July 9, 2009 at 1:13 pm

      Josef, even though I pretend to be a therapist, take money from people who think I’m a therapist, impersonate therapists after I steal their clothes and nice ties (leaving them stranded naked and cold at bus stops), sell harmful and addictive drugs to defenseless and vulnerable people while calling it “medicine,” engage in sexual intercourse with wives of therapists, I’m not really a therapist. I’m just someone with mental quirkiness who spews words and crazy theories once in a while, or causes external links to erupt onto a web page.

      You may find some links on this site that will provide what you’re looking for.

  28. 34 logic101 July 9, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Suicide is not the same as murder. The thing about murder is that the person being murdered didn’t have a choice in the matter and probably didn’t want to be murdered. Those things aren’t true of suicide because I’m pretty sure suicide victims consented to their demise and were okay with it. Plus, while yes many people are hurt by suicide – loved ones etc. there is no crime for making people feel sad. If there was then murderers would be charged for more than the actual murder. Suicide can have devestating consequences, but its your life and you have the right to do whatever you want with it. And isn’t it selfish for people to say to someone considering suicide, “I don’t care how miserable you are or how much pain you’re in. If you kill yourself I’ll feel bad and my feelings matter more than your own.”

    • 35 veela July 14, 2009 at 7:50 pm

      dear logic,

      yes, people do have rights and its not fair to blame the suicide victim for the fact that by them killing themselves, they in turn had emotionally tormented their loved ones. but its just not something to take lightly and to just let people do what they want with their lives. if we can help others overcome the thoughts of suicide (no easy task) by offering love, support, guidance, a listening ear, counseling, crisis intervention, etc..then at least we can say we tried and are willing to be a helpful participant in a positive way. i recently read a statistic that 25,000 people in the U.S. commit suicide each year, thats alarming!!!

      its a deep issue for sure, and not that i don’t appreciate your comment, i just think that compassion and understanding can go a long way–and that maybe at the very end, “they” (the suicide victim) was not necessarily “okay with it”…as you put it.

  29. 36 johndoe... July 16, 2009 at 12:29 am

    i’ve done some bad stuff.. my ex gf loves me, i love her to death… her parents won’t let us be together, and she wont’ do anythign about it… i can’t take it anymore… it’s just too much for me to handle, i’m going crazy everynight, hence why i’m here, goodbye guys.

    • 37 noelia July 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

      when you find the way pls inform me , as soon as possble , is too hard to live in this facking world with these fucking people who are heartless…

  30. 38 i hate this life July 17, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    i want to die, it’s as simple as that. Painlessly if possible but in the long run it really doesnt matter…as long as the end result is death.

  31. 39 Andy Alt July 21, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    So everybody is clear on something: this site won’t be used as a forum to discuss tips for committing suicide. All comments are moderated and are preapproved before they will appear here.

  32. 40 thehouselougbuilt July 29, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    I want to die so bad…..I have become obsessed with it…..But of course im a coward.I have slit my throat and wrist but not deep enough.I have tried to OD on oxycotin but survived twice.I have tried to purchase a fire arm but no such luck.Isnt there a site that cant help me kill myself in a painless way.PLEASE IM BEGGGING YOU!!!!!!!


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