Sorry if this sounds insensitive, but why do talented people take their own life?

[skylight7]

I can play beautiful music. I can write touching poetry. But what I cannot do is bring peace to my suffering. All the talents in the world, all the art one can create cannot save them from their pain. But maybe death can.

This part of your comment is amazing poetry. "All the talents in the world, all the art one can create cannot save them from their pain. But death can."

 

[PrisonPlanet]

Having talents doesn't fix the loneliness that comes from wanting to be in a relationship but not being able to make a single one work, or a family that doesn't love you.

 

[dontwakemeup]

I think post and views like this are how the world view suicide. I don't have to convince you the reason that I want to ctb as you don't have to convince me the reason why you want to continue existing in this world! I guarantee you, neither of us will agree with each other!

A lot of talented people have chosen to stop existing. What I hope you learn from this thread is everyone's personal reason is valid enough for them as yours is valid for you. There is no comparison, people often try to equate the two but the formula is different, but it will always equal the same amount, the same worth, the same value in the end.

 

[Mirrory Me]

Talented? Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe,Errol Flynn,George Reeves,Edward Platt(the chief on Maxwell Smart), Charles Boyer(mitigating circumstances, his wife died just two days earlier), or rather, check suicide rates by profession(Vets, Dentists,Doctors) having a talent means little to many people

Don't know much about others, but Marilyn overdosed and Elvis died of heart failure (perhaps because of drugs also..?).

 

[nolosis]

I have an average IQ and no talents at all. The lack of ability that I have makes me want to kill myself, and it's the reason I'm ctbing. I know if I could just sit in my room and draw all day, I would choose to live. If I was talented at mathematics I'd choose to pursue it. Yet, I get that this is not how everyone else feels, and I'm wondering why? Why isn't their talent enough to stop them from ctbing? It's amazing to have something you're good at and you can do easily for the rest of your life. I feel empty and like there is nothing I can do with my life.

I don't mean to be insensitive at all, I'm just suffering with the pain of wanting what others have and not having anything in my life.

being talented at something puts a lot of pressure and even more stress on you in my experiences, I remember being less depressed actually before I went pro in boxing, ever since I've been pro my depression has increased dramatically, my talent is what I am and I'm nothing without it, it creates a disconnect from everything in my life and that makes everything worse, everything feels fake and not real.

 

[outrider567]

Don't know much about others, but Marilyn overdosed and Elvis died of heart failure (perhaps because of drugs also..?).

Marilyn committed suicide, and Elvis committed suicide the slow way, he was the worst prescription drug addict of all time