What would you do without this site

[MasonMadeThings]

I'm doing a speech on sanctioned suicide and why this site is important to many and shouldn't be taken down. So what has this site done for you?

 

[FuneralCry]

To me it's important that people are able to access suicide method information so that people are less likely to attempt risky methods and end up with damage from failure. It's cruel to try to deny people this and to try to force them to exist, as if suicide is so difficult then existence is nothing more than a prison. Suicide is a human right which should always be respected, nobody should have to continue this existence any longer than they wish.

Still, suicide websites could never be enough for me, I believe in a legalised peaceful way to be free from this life without all of the stigma and struggle involved in planning suicide. In an ideal world suicide websites would never need to exist. But despite this website suicide is still difficult for me personally, so I cannot say that it's really helped me to such a great extent achieve the true freedom that I wish for. At least having somewhere where there is method information is beneficial though.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

Jump off a cliff.

 

[BipolarExpress]

This site provides me a space to vent about my life, commiserate with others who are also suffering, and advocate positions that would be unthinkable elsewhere. I think there's value and meaning to life for a lot of people, but some of us are suffering badly enough that ending our lives seems like a better proposition than continuing to suffer physically or psychically. People should be able to discuss those urges and make end-of-life choices without the threat of psychiatric incarceration, which often increases suicidality anyway.

 

[LonelyEmerald]

Without this site, I'd likely have tried to swallow yew seeds mixed with ice cream. Nope turns out it doesn't work. Without this site, I'd likely have tried to stab my arteries and cut my throat and wrists, likely causing permanent damage to my body that would make life even worse but not dying. Without this site, I'd have no crutch. I'd just be living miserably for decades.

 

[dummb57]

Without this site, I'd likely have tried to swallow yew seeds mixed with ice cream. Nope turns out it doesn't work. Without this site, I'd likely have tried to stab my arteries and cut my throat and wrists, likely causing permanent damage to my body that would make life even worse but not dying. Without this site, I'd have no crutch. I'd just be living miserably for decades.

I was thinking of doing these 2 methods you suggested, I think I'll research more :/

 

[cassxtho]

It's given me a community. I'm still suicidal but I feel a little bit better day to day, and it allowed me to reflect on what I want out of life before I die. I feel like people here encourage each other not to act impulsively and I diffidently benefitted from it. I didn't know what SN was before I found this site and I am too weak (physically) to benefit from the method I used in my previous attempts to CTB, so I am excited to have a plan for the future.

Until I am ready to CTB, this place really helps me cope with getting through life in spite of the fact I can't wait to end it.

 

[BornToFail]

Kill myself

 

[Tesha]

Validated me as a person. Validated my feelings. Validated that just because I'm suicidal, it doesn't mean I'm mentally unwell. Given me a safe space to reflect. Helped to keep me alive by removing my impulse, considering things more carefully and becoming informed. Made me laugh at the memes. Helped me find my virtual 'tribe', even though I don't interact very much.

 

[Interloper]

Misery loves company. I'd probably have died already if I didn't start chatting with some people here. Which can be seen as a blessing or a curse really.

 

[makethepainstop]

I'm doing a speech on sanctioned suicide and why this site is important to many and shouldn't be taken down. So what has this site done for you?

If it were not for this site, I do believe that i should go mad or BEGONE!

 

[Ineedtodie]

Whitout this site, i wouldn't bear the thought of my unfortunate existence and my experience. My thoughts and emotions would be a taboo not to be expressed in writing and only serves to torment me. Internalizing it all like i'm the only oddity on earth. The shame will most certainly kill me before i do it myself. This and access to methodes which perhaps still brutal and need to be descreet, neverless still relaible when absolute despair take over.
Free speech without absolutely no hurtful judgement is a blessing disguised SS.

 

[Doom]

without this site i would not know about SN, i would feel even more trapped in this world and eventually i would choose a brutal method