Every day...for the last few years. I don't want to rant but...hey...it's a forum
I've had a few people in my life (nobody really CLOSE to me, but people I knew) who called their own way out and have sometimes been almost disgusted by peoples reaction to it.
"They took the cowards way out" - Oh yeah? Here's a little exercise for you: Take a revolver put one bullet in it, spin the chamber...put it to your head and try to pull the trigger. If you can't do it, you have no right to call a suicide a coward. If you're lucky enough to survive the experience, you can call suicides cowards all you want.
"They just didn't want to deal with their problems" - Yeah? Would you hate on a boxer who got knocked down 4 times in a round and is about to swallow his 2nd tooth in 5 minutes who didn't get back up? "He just didn't want to deal with his opponent!!" If he got up he'd just take more unnecessary punishment.
"What a selfish thing to do" - Yeah right. That argument reminds me of when Michael Jackson died. The day before he died, nobody gave a **** about him. After he died, everyone is all of a sudden a die hard MJ fan with their hearts bleeding for the dead King of Pop. Give me a break. If the person thought everyone cared about them they wouldn't have done it. It's too convenient to all-of-a-sudden care about someone after they croak.
I give someone all the respect in the world for calling their own way out. When I contemplate suicide (daily) I don't think about how i'm going to do it or whatever. I just think more about the fact that sooner or later it's probably going to get the better of me. I've never tried it...because I'm too chicken to see it through. But I don't know if I'm going to be scared forever. The problems that I've created for myself have inhibited my ability to solve them. "The punishment for having the disease is being denied the cure". A vicious cycle...and I figure that suicide is the result of travelling down that vicious cycle so long that getting out is impossible (or at least seems that way from a REALISTIC perspective).
Suicide comes from realizing how deep you've dug yourself into a hole, trying your best to climb out, and only ending up deeper. I wish I could have helped some of the people who called their own way out. At times I wish someone could help me through the bad thoughts. For me personally, there are so many things that I wish I could say or do that would help me get past these feelings, but I just never seem to say or do them right, and it just ends up biting me in the ass and creating more regrets.