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“Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.”
“Suicide by train is also popular in many developed countries. Without ready access to firearms, suicidal people often turn to trains. —Der Spiegel, July 27, 2011
Once it happens you can’t remember
how you started out: innocent,
barreling into the tunnel,
shooting out at each station
like a dolphin out of a dim green pool.
Pneumatic doors inhale open, puff shut,
lock with a solid thump.
Up and down the line, fifty times a day,
it’s a long slow song. You
feel the rumble as much as hear it.
In your dim green trance
the words retain wonder:
Vorsicht, Türe werden geschloßen.
Caution, the doors are closing.
Then the first time:
someone decides darkness will answer,
hides out in the tunnel,
steps out in front of the train
like he knows where he’s going,
steps out at you, dying at you,
knowing you can’t stop in time.
Now each time the doors close,
they seal you in. You are a human bullet
shot into the tunnels, hoping no one
will block the light far ahead,
each station one minute’s reprieve.”
“SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.”
“Suicide can help pass on an individual's genes to the next generation in a situation where that individual is a burden to their close relatives and their own reproductive potential is weak. By taking their life, an individual may contribute to the reproductive success of their close relatives and thus to the proliferation of their own genes. In such a case, that individual's close relatives would have one mouth less to feed and no sick individual to look after. Indeed, several studies have shown that suicidal thoughts and suicides are more common in those who have poor chances of reproduction and who feel they are merely a burden to their loved ones.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest”
“Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.”
Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.”
Source: Life After Suicide
“Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure.”
Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Suicide does not end it all as we all think but it's the beginning of another phase which is determined by how we spent this phase and killing yourself puts you in a very bad position, eternally.”
Source: Great Reflections on Success
“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”
“Suicide doesn’t end the darkness, it spreads it to those left behind”
Source: What If I Told You It Was All A Lie, Would You Want To Know Why
“Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.”
“Suicide fixes every health issue known to humanity.”
“Suicide has never been dealt with except as a social phenomenon. On the contrary, we are concerned here, at the outset, with the relationship between individual thought and suicide. An act like this is prepared within the silence of the heart, as is a great work of art. The man himself is ignorant of it. One evening he pulls the trigger or jumps.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Suicide has no sweet side; it dumps devastating agony on loved ones.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Suicide has overtaken car accidents, heart disease and cancer as the biggest killer of British men under the age of 45, and male rates of substance abuse, violence and imprisonment are eye-watering. And yet dysfunctional emotional regulation continues to be aligned with alpha masculinity.”
“Suicide in whatever form is an act of ingratitude to God. You threw back at Him the gift He took His time, energy and resources to create specially for you.”
Source: Great Reflections on Success
“Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.”
“Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted.”
Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.”
“Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.”
“Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.”
“Suicide is a dark and horrible thought that has hit very close to my life, but if we don’t talk about it, we learn nothing; and if we learn nothing, then the greatest loss in suicide is to the living.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.”
“Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
“Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.”
“Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.”
“Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.”
Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." They say, it's not an "answer" in any way. Taking your own life is SE Self Execution, many have said that's a terrible name. I ask should killing yourself sound good?”
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.”
“Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.”
“Suicide is a real threat to health.”
“Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.”
“Suicide is a tax on human consciousness.”
Source: Grief Is for People
“Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.”
“Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.”
Source: Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention
“Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.”
“suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.”
Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.”
Source: The Art of Dying
“Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.”
“Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.”
Source: Creating a World That Works for All
“Suicide is as easy as driving off the cliffs of the beautiful coastal highway at full speed.”
“Suicide is as easy as not pulling the ripcord on the parachute.”
“Suicide is as easy as riding a rocket into Heaven.”
“Suicide is as easy as stepping into the beautiful Grand Canyon.”
“Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Suicide is ingrained into USA culture.”
“Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.”