Does suicide necessarily have to be a bad thing that involves sadness and despair?

[Weebster]

The thought came to me today. I normally associate it with sadness and despair because I don't want to die. I want to live but the life o want eludes me.

 

[symphony]

I switch back and forth between viewing CTB with sadness and viewing it as hopeful, relieving, and freeing.

 

[its-about-time]

No. Altered mental states can make suicide a very positive or hopeful thing. Psychosis, mania, drugs, etc. I've been on the verge of suicide before thinking I was just taking the next step in my reincarnation as a dead celebrity that was being communicated to me through aliens and songs, and it didn't involve sadness or despair at all. Even now I'm not delusional or anything I feel pretty damn excited about everything every day I just feel compelled to die. Though I think hopelessness is a factor right now I just am not dwelling on it.

 

[BigGimpin]

Yes and no...the one thing I dont understand is how people are complaining about the taste of N, shit...its the LAST thing you will ever taste, then of to peaceful bliss. Suck it up buttercup.

 

[HappyForever?]

In the majority of cases yes. Suicide is a final resort for the vast majority, and if they could recover, they would do that instead of committing suicide.

 

[DontplayGod]

Definitely not, I know from personal experience I've been in a content and peaceful mindset when I attempted. I wasn't going through any severe episodes, I felt content with life, but I truly want death. Not as a bad thing I see it as the next step, everyone has to accept death and I'd like to go soon rather than waste my years away for something I see as pointless. So yes suicide isn't always done for negative reasons like hopelessness and despair, though the amount of suffering in this world is extremely high that this is why most people consider suicide as an option.

 

[FuneralCry]

To me, there is nothing sad about suicide. I see death as being the end to all pain and suffering. When I am dead, nothing can hurt me anymore. It is all I want. I find it comforting to think about my death. There is nothing that I want from this life and nothing could ever make me want to live. I have came to the conclusion that my life is not worth living. In a lot of cases, people are driven to suicide by the pain they experience in life, so that is why it is seen as sad. Many people feel as though they have no choice. In my case though, I would choose death over everything.

 

[silent staring void]

The more I plan my own suicide, the more I become obsessed with death. I'd totally join Heaven's Gate at this point. It's like I made up my own religion where I'm just acting out my devine purpose that was mine since I was born by killing myself. It's exciting!!!

Yes and no...the one thing I dont understand is how people are complaining about the taste of N, shit...its the LAST thing you will ever taste, then of to peaceful bliss. Suck it up buttercup.

But... It's going to be the greatest moment in your life! Don't you want it to be perfect??

 

[Lost Magic]

While sadness and despair does cause a lot of suicides, I don't think it is necessary to feel those thoughts if you are not. I heard a lot of stories who have a seemingly happy life on the surface but they really just don't and never have wanted to exist. It's different for everybody. I think I am a bit of both to be honest.

 

[Rational man]

In may case, death will be the release of my physical body after 1 Year of pain and torture. I will DIE from the disease or ctb. The Trajectory is certainly downwards spiralling, guaranteed. I welcome it and my return to the cosmic dust.

 

[NorseHel]

To me it can often be bittersweet. It's usually sad to see someone go, but if they had good reason then there's comfort in that.

 

[Pain In The Ass]

The thought came to me today. I normally associate it with sadness and despair because I don't want to die. I want to live but the life o want eludes me.

People seem to associate a 90-year-old dying, after living a relatively happy life, with sadness and despair, by the look of the people sat in the front row of a funeral, so I think it's culturally inescapable. I feel sad about my death because I know I could've achieved a lot and had the potential to be quite happy, were it not for the chronic pain, but I guess that's like saying, I could've been so happy had I been born into royalty, or had I won the lottery, or had I been born with Arnold Schwarzenegger's genetics - the chronic pain is something that happened, and that's that.

 

[rata1]

I don't think that it is sad or bad. Sad are the circumstances. it is sad that someone decides or feels as it is necessary to do it. Other people are sad because they lose someone. But suicide itself can be something very beautyful. i think even, that it could be considered as the highest form of human self-determination. we can decide about our own life, about ourself alive or dead (we don't know what awaits us on the other side, at least we can decide if we choose to leave this side). Sure, my subjective perception of this qhole thing is made by my state, i don't feel free in my life so suicide, for me, is something like a liberation. nevertheless i consider it as the posibility of a big great decisive liberation (even if i don't know what awaits me on the other side). therefore i would and should celebrate it. like others celebrate their birthday. i celebrate the fact that i allow myself to free myself. it has something similar to the celebration of the concept of peace, something very beautiful. we should celebrate it as a step towards the improvement of our life, to get better. it is positive.
we have merited to do it. this is one reason for why i am for the general rigth to ctb. because it is self determination, it is therefore positive!

 

[Sakura94]

obviously others will always be sad since it's a complete absence of someone. You don't really celebrate absences of people unless they are directly making your own life worse..

 

[whatevs]

Oh nooo. We can make it a celebration. I'll go get the champagne and you get the ropes ready. Hey everyone! Does anyone have bluetooth speakers so we can get the music going?

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

In most cases yes. It shouldn't be a bad thing for me though I can't help if misinformed, naive people find my suicide to be sad for any reason. I see my own suicide as a really good thing and just about the most positive thing I can do for the world by preventing it from suffering due to my wanton consumption and missing empathy. At least this way I can guarantee that I'll be dead before I can cause further harm to any future family I create or fuck up at any future job I may have.

 

[PerpetualPain]

Yes and no...the one thing I dont understand is how people are complaining about the taste of N, shit...its the LAST thing you will ever taste, then of to peaceful bliss. Suck it up buttercup.

Have you tasted it?

 

[BigGimpin]

Have you tasted it?

Nope, left them in their sealed bottles.

 

[Atlantian]

Looking at it literally, yeah. Our bodies exist to keep living and shitting out slightly different versions of ourselves. But on a personal level its up to the person. I never saw a happy dude just yell bye and jump out a skyscraper window.

 

[Someone123]

The thought came to me today. I normally associate it with sadness and despair because I don't want to die. I want to live but the life o want eludes me.

If you have lived a long, full life maybe not- but the loss of what might have been, and seeing so many others around you handed googd lives on a silver platter, makes it nearly inevitable if you are young. Some people who have ctbd here, once they are at peace with their decision and have a good means to do this ready, do seem more at peace in the final days, but many others stress out right until the end. I think I'll have some of each when the time comes.

 

[outrider567]

Yes-- sadness and despair and sense of loss is what is plaguing me,it doesn't end--So CTB is the answer, and consequently, relief

 

[lostangel]

Yes and no...the one thing I dont understand is how people are complaining about the taste of N, shit...its the LAST thing you will ever taste, then of to peaceful bliss. Suck it up buttercup.

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[Sprite_Geist]

Each person has different reason(s) for wanting to end their own life, so the outlook on suicide can vary.

For example: an individual may wish to commit suicide because they are experiencing extreme pain - whether it be physical or emotional. From one perspective this could be saddening; they may not actually want to die but instead they just want the pain to end, and giving up their only life is a way to achieve this. An opposite perspective would shine a more positive light on this situation, because the thought of ending all suffering can be very comforting, and considering that it is life which is causing said suffering - initially - then losing it might not be seen as too much of a trade-off.

In short: it depends on how an individual approaches it.