I just want to die

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I have no future everything is awful
I have no one, socialising is just unbearable. I have no sense of purpose or meaning in my life I don't know what to do. I'm finishing highschool and my grades are terrible and I have no chance of being anyone successful. I have absolutely no direction on my life. I constantly feel anxious and stressed and my family makes it worse
I'm just so tired

I'm so sorry you are feeling like this. I think we all have, at one time or another.

But all the same, try not to believe your negative predictions about your future. Here are three simple words that may help: Wait and see.

Good luck.

At the very least, once you graduate high school, you can go to community college. They don't care about your grades; only that you have a diploma.

kraftie's right. That's what I did - your situation sounds eerily similar to mine when I was in high school: horrible grades, with no foreseeable chance of graduating, non-supportive family, I was on the verge of suicide at that point and indeed I actually attempted later that year after I graduated. But that's just it - I stuck it through, I graduated and went on to community college (and even transferred to an actual university) met a really awesome girl there (who eventually broke up with me, but that's okay, I see that now), and although I went through a lot of rough s*** in-between (spent some time in jail and a mental hospital in Pueblo because of a violent incident with my girlfriend, and also attempted suicide a few more times), I'm only 23 years old, I still have my whole life ahead of me (or not, but it doesn't really matter, 'cause life is what you make of it!), and right now I'm doing alright. I've got a really awesome position with the Fort Collins Symphony and I personally know their maestro and board president, so that's pretty cool! Plus, the executive director (who's a fantastic lady) gave me free season tickets to all of the Masterworks concerts, so that's something to look forward to. None of this would have happened either had I successfully killed myself earlier in life. Give life a chance - you never know what it might yield. I think the best I can do is leave you with this quote from a song by one of my favorite bands:

"To really feel the joy in life
You must suffer through the pain
When you surrender to the light
You can face the darkest days

If you open up your eyes
And you put your trust in love
On those cold and endless nights
You will never be alone

Passion glows within your heart
Like a furnace burning bright
Until you struggle through the dark
You'll never know that you're alive"

- Dream Theater, "Illumination Theory"