What reasons do you use when you decide to defer suicide?

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My dog would be deprived of her beloved master. Besides, that my mother and sister would probably be heartbroken. Finally, I'm probably too indolent to go through with it. You know, from what I've heard, dying painlessly and with some dignity requires both great skill and careful preparation, like procuring cyanide pills.

I'm not sure about cyanide pills being painless. From what I understand, cyanide deprives cells of their ability to process oxygen. So it sounds like a suffocation process you can't stop once you've started.

It is hurtful that people are made to feel that their life is so worthless that they want to throw it away.

Most people in the world do not achieve everything they would like to, many underachieve but you may attain your goals later in life. I know I struggled a lot in my earlier days.

SilentScream, please just don't do it.

It depends on the doses and on the method of delivery. If you drop a dozen pills in a strong acid and inhale the fumes, death will be virtually instantaneous. Merely swallowing the pills can indeed be rather painful, as it takes about a minute to lose consciousness and the substance scours the throat. That being said, pure cyanide is almost impossible for the ordinary public to obtain.

But regardless of whether the cyanide was a good example, my actual point was: since painless, non-messy, and dignified suicide requires much skill and preparation, you had better think it over really well. And you can't practice it...
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EarlPurple,
Please don't worry. I wouldn't post that I was going to do it. Believe it or not, this is actually an attempt at being positive, trying to reinforce reasons to not do it.

there was a steven spielberg show on during the 80's and it was called 'amazing stories' or something like that. This person died and they were saying 'go to the light' 'go to the light' and then it turns out the 'light' is a light in an operating room, and that person that just died is being born again right at that second, they are coming out of the womb. The thought of that scares the absolute beejesus out of me. To die and think you were getting off this planet and then end up coming right back to have to do it all over again, in possibly worse circumstances. So I'm going with the proven evil, this life, at least for the moment.

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I can't change my past, but I can change my future. To kill myself would mean the negative people and experiences from the past had won and I will never get the chance to become the person I want to be.

My imaginary friends would miss me, I haven't finished my dollies.

agreed there

I worry about how sad my dad would be
I think about the fact no one would probably love/want my cats as much as I do

...the only reasons. I worry that when my dad goes, the cats won't be strong enough to keep me here

If I was dead my fish would also die. Nobody else knows how to care for him...

Not that I often contemplate suicide, sometimes I wonder "Why not?" though.

Oddly enough, it's that comment about the film bringing up the possibility of "the light" being the portal to rebirth that's really giving me the screaming heebie jeebies.

to me even when others don't see it that way. My things may be weird, but they're mine and give me pleasure. Read How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me for inspiration. The author is a person who attempted suicide, so she's definitely been there.

Right now I feel like I've very little to live for. I've been depressed on and off since I was 15 and I'm now 25. There's not many people who would miss me if I were gone but I know my family would for sure, that's enough to stop me contemplating.