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carcard
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09 Oct 2015, 8:00 am

YES



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09 Oct 2015, 8:01 am

I'm certainly not an advocate for suicide. If you look at it from all angles, it's a total waste.

An exception can be made for people in constant extreme pain who are (certifiably) terminally ill.



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19 Dec 2015, 6:45 am

Yes. Some studies suggest autistic people are as much as 28 times more likely to commit suicide than the mean. Our kind will get the last laugh though, since we seem to be the future of humanity.


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19 Dec 2015, 5:38 pm

Macallan wrote:
Dunwich wrote:
I think about suicide a lot, but as a logical life-decision to make later on, like changing careers or getting married. ......

The few posters I've seen discuss it here have a similar attitude: that when there's just nothing but dead ends in life and no way to use their vast knowledge and unique insight to make any difference, they'll just quit. That's me. Suicidal thoughts are just like any of my other fixations: coming, sticking, and eventually going.

That's me, too.

I had one failed attempt when I was in my early twenties and now have better plans in place for the future. I had a death obsession for a while and am now quite comfortable with the idea and some of the practicalities. For me, I now won't commit suicide over emotional issues, but when I get old and unable to continue with my life as I want to. My choice, my responsibility to myself and, in my perspective, no different to putting an old and infirm dog to sleep out of kindness.


I am the same - I tried and failed and got sectioned for 6 months as the psychiatrist realised that it was not a call for help. When my brain goes I would like to be put down.



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19 Dec 2015, 6:43 pm

Yes, I've been fighting depression since 13 years old and suicide has crossed my mind many times.



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19 Dec 2015, 6:45 pm

Yog-Sothoth wrote:
I know I would never do that because its not the Viking thing to do. Vikings fight to the death, they never surrender.


THANK YOU.


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20 Dec 2015, 5:29 pm

Sometimes the thought of committing suicide crosses my mind, especially when I screw something up or I'm very, very scared. I'm still alive and surviving every day.