Suicide is not a "right" - its an option that ought to be legally available to the mentally sane. Nothing more nothing less.
There is nothing glorious about it, there is no shining light awaiting us at the end of that tunnel, no forgiveness and in most cases not even real sorrow by the once left behind.
They might be cussing their own inabillity to stop you and they most certainly would like to outlaw websites such as this for the same reason. But next to none will try to appreciate a state of mind that nature didn't intent to be "appreciable".
I just wish people would stop gloryfying death or besmirching life when talking about this topic. Life can be wonderful, joyous and mind-boggling at times.
But it can also turn into a burden too heavy to carry. And the *only* question you ought to ask yourself is "is there a chance for things to get better?"
Suffering from bi-polar disorder myself I can assure you that the midst of a depression is exactly the wrong time to ask yourself that question. Your mind *can not* think clearly right now and only after the clouds have lifted can you look at your life and make an honest assesment: "Is this worth continuing?"
When I am depressed I do terrible things to myself, and the moments the fog has lifted I can not understand the person that did that. But I also have real problems in the physical world that just won't go away and seem to conspire to make life unbearable for me.
I deal with that by *not* setting myself an artificial deadline: "I got to kill myself in X number of days!"
For if my problems are real, then they will continue to be so in 1 week, 2 months or by the end of the year. So I keep account of how I can cope with real issues in the real world and observe how that abillity diminishes. And when I've reached a point were I can cope no more, only then will I take that final step. But not because I had made an announcement publicly and then felt obliged to go through with it.
This is *your* life and you need no one's approval to end it *or* to go on living. When certain people (not you!) on this forum keep cheering on death I always ask myself: "Why the heck is that guy still breathing?!"