I know what I am talking about. I used to choose bridges from which to jump. But since I wasn’t sure whether it was the right decision, I asked super-smart people like Steven Pinker, Peter Kinderman or John Read.
Yes, I am battling mental illnesses, and since you have had an awful divorce, you are unable to see your children, you are battling physical illness on your own and you have a lot of debt. I agree, completely different cases.
Yet the outcome or my and your story should be: suicide is not an option.
Not only 50 % of people decide to commit suicide in 5 minutes before the act, but if the person survives (either the “5 minutes before” option or more elaborated suicide attempt) – 95 % are happy to be alive if they survive. Women lie, men lie, numbers don’t.
Yes, you can be the 5 %, but your life outcome is still likely to improve. Imagine people who survived torture, lost their human dignity, ale penniless, hooked on some very addictive substance, their family was killed in some torture-prison. Yet, there is always hope.
They say it is the permanent solution for a temporary problem.
American psychiatrist Allen Frances calls it the worst decision in the life’s worst moment. And as Peter Kinderman said: “There is always hope.”
You live only once, there is no heaven and afterlife. You can turn to God if it helps you but you must be aware the God is just a product of imagination, nothing more (it same goes with the afterlife).
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