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What has kept you clinging on to life so far?

  • Family and friends

  • Fear of death

  • Fear of pain while dying

  • Lack of access to methods

  • Religion

  • Hope that things will get better

  • Work related commitments

  • Fear that CTB will make you look dishonorable/inferior

  • Others (Please mention in the comments)


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MeltingBrain

MeltingBrain

Wizard
May 29, 2023
607
Please do expand in the comments why you chose what you chose in descending order of importance, I would like to read it.

I will start -

1. Fear that CTB will make me dishonorable/inferior - I have no major achievements in life and I will die as a resource guzzler while others have done fantastically well. Once dead this position only solidifies permanently .

2. Family and friends - I will traumatize them for life. I have many well wishers. Although 95% of my friends have gone their own ways they were part of my life once and my death will scar at least some of them. My mother who is emotionally sensitive will be hit with an emotional nuke after she learns about my death.

3. Fear of pain while dying- Noose is scary, if done wrong one could die of choking otherwise seems like a viable option. Jumping is out of the question. Terror while you are in mid air, followed by the terror of the ground closing in, then the pain of the impact will be too much to bear for me. An injection or an oral solution sound like the best options but they too have a waiting time which will cause mental agony. A solution might change the color of my body, make me nauseous which will be the last things felt before dying.

4. Fear of death - Death is permanent nothingness. I want to be absolutely sure before I turn that switch.

5. Hope that things will get better - I have some hope things will turn around, that my physical condition will be treated properly. Although that looks like a losing battle with every passing day.

6. Lack of access to methods - Don't have the noose or the salt.

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RinneOfAragon

Student
Jan 2, 2025
137
This poll will close: Sep 18, 2055 - optimistic 😂.
 
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EmptyBottle

EmptyBottle

Aera23 ^u^
Apr 10, 2025
160
Family and friends will miss me (online friends mainly tho I have some friends I chatted to yesterday at a hall)
Fear of 'death'... more like fear of consequences like brain damage, but some hesitation to TTF (take the flight... tks @vercabow for the phrase)
Hope that things get better - probably founded, since I will likely eventually complete study, even if I have to redo a few courses
Religion - Sometimes feel like a natural death would do better for me when it is time to enter the afterlife... vs have to spend longer in purgatory.
 
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RinneOfAragon

Student
Jan 2, 2025
137
To expand though I'm nearly 35 and I'm actually amazed I'm still here. I knew from 19 I wasn't cut out for life. My main reason to stay was my mother, now it's my vulnerable family members. Lack of reliable method sends shivers down my spine. Thinking all the ways it can go wrong. I have tried. I'm mentally ready to go. I haven't really had any hope since before Xmas. Now it's just purely practical things I need to sort. I'm completely done in my mind. It's over , just needs to be right.
 
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FoxSauce

FoxSauce

Emotional unstable like and IKEA table
Aug 23, 2024
393
Moslty my fear of pain and Secondly if I survive get scolded or probably be shamed and I don't wanna cause anymore pain to anyone.


Plus every method is painful tried with chockingnyself with a shirt in the hospital to no avail.
 
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Namelesa

Namelesa

Trapped in this Suffering
Sep 21, 2024
1,648
  1. still be here for boyfriend, especially as he makes life much easier
  2. wanting to finish the games I want to make for the world
  3. lack of methods at the moment due to being trapped by parents cus of my suicidalness
  4. stay for my dog as I see him as my child and need to look after him as his mother
 
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VoidButterfly

VoidButterfly

Member
May 17, 2025
7
It's really just friends and family. More specifically, I know how much this is going to hurt both my mother and my best friend, they don't deserve this. I've lived for them both for a long time now. I'm really worried my best friend will follow if I do it, she's attempted in the past too.
 
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encore

encore

“but eternity is far too cruel a fate for you, Ei”
Nov 14, 2024
131
unfinished business related to some life stuff. not work, but relationships. i also don't rush to die anyway, i will have my method very soon, so if it just gets too unbearable at some point and at that exact moment i find myself not caring about anything anymore - i will do it.
 
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river_birch

New Member
May 17, 2025
2
I am very sorry that everyone here is suffereing, and I wish that you weren't.

What initially kept me from suicide was that I at least wanted live longer than my dad who suicided. Now I'm past that age, I just need to figure out how to get the mess cleaned up without it disturbing my family. If anyone has thoughts on how to do that, I would appreciate knowing. I can't just disappear, and its not legal to pre-purchase having the body taken care of from local funeral homes (I've checked).

Wishing you all happiness.
 
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pthnrdnojvsc

pthnrdnojvsc

Extreme Pain is much worse than people know
Aug 12, 2019
3,338
fear of failure and remaining alive but with more brain damage and or more disability . and fear of pain.

so that's also lack of access to a guaranteed suicide method

that's it . i'm not afraid of non-existence forever / Death . non-existence forever is what i want for me .

nothing matters to me except : this is the only only thing that matters to me . it's the only thing i want to get to eternal non-existence asap but in an almost guaranteed way. that and me avoiding extreme pain but that's what my suicide does skips over any suffering or pain and gets me to permanent non-existence. it really doesn't matter to me what others do as long as it doesn't affect me

we can't have guaranteed methods because they made someone else helping you with suicide a crime .
 
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FuneralCry

FuneralCry

Just wanting some peace
Sep 24, 2020
42,586
I only continue to suffer as after all I was so harmfully burdened with this existence that there was never a need for that just caused and brought all this pain, problems and suffering that there was never a need for at all yet I'm so cruelly denied the option to die peacefully in an guaranteed way even know this existence of suffering all for the sake of it was so tragically imposed.

I'd be long gone if I could just choose to peacefully cease existing as I'd just never wish for the torturous, futile burden of existing rather all I want is to not exist, I'll always find it so deeply undesirable to exist. I see existence as such a terrible, harmful mistake that just causes cruelty and suffering, for me non-existence really is all that's positive and I see so much cruelty in how the suffering and torture of human existence is seen as to force and prolong no matter what with no option to just simply cease existing in peace and never suffer ever again.
 
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bankai

bankai

Elementalist
Mar 16, 2025
847
I don't think I can throw away life casually. I understand the beauty of life. It's rare, and I think the Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's supporting life as of now. i think each person is unique and precious.Except the twats that hurt other people.

I'm just going to struggle. And I'm going to try my hardest. I'm gonna keep trying to live. That's what kept me going so far. I don't really have any joy. I have not had any joy today. I've not had any joy typing this😭

But I'll continue for as long as I'm able to.
 
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polm

Member
May 3, 2025
30
Fear that my one method that is partial hanging won't work well enough and I'll end up in hospital and mh on my back
 
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SmilingNoMore

SmilingNoMore

Warlock
Nov 25, 2024
795
1. Method has been unattainable due to timing, unemployment and no shipping address
2. Clinging onto hope for the future and a belief of reuniting with my person in this life still
 
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