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Eccles posted 06-19-99 06:17 PM ET
And failed obviously.
I did once, but I want to hear from you!
Resource Consumer posted 06-19-99 06:24 PM ET
Snap.
Copious amounts of alcohol and nearly a bottle of aspirin (why don't they do strawberry flavour, I ask).
Result. Considerable vomiting and a headache that lasted 3 days.
Advice. Don't do it that way - more people wake up in a mess than those who choke on their own vomit.
Resource Consumer
- advocating electric fires in bathrooms -
Eccles posted 06-19-99 06:58 PM ET
I had a friend who tried to slit his wrists, he was in the army as well. DUH!
Asprin and Voddy? Man! you must have been asking for a slow death
Dreadnought posted 06-19-99 06:59 PM ET
Life's stress became to great, so I fired up a "game" of CTP. I was hoping I would die of boredom.

Q Cubed posted 06-19-99 07:38 PM ET
Claritin doesn't work very well.
umbra1 posted 06-19-99 08:04 PM ET
Are you being serious Eccles ? Sorry but I had to ask. Email me.
Philip McCauley posted 06-19-99 09:17 PM ET
I dunno, but in a previous life, I must have done SOMETHING wrong.
Lodi posted 06-19-99 11:11 PM ET
I probably will attempt to take make life though. And slitting your wrists can work, quickly-- if done right.
Lodi, The Idjit of Death
Lodi posted 06-19-99 11:12 PM ET
make that "to take my life". and now you better not wonder why i hate myself.
Eccles posted 06-20-99 07:10 AM ET
Yes I am serious.
Deadly Serious
I just tried to monoxide myself, but I got rescued after a while.
Benefits/Disadvantages anyone
4Horses posted 06-20-99 07:55 AM ET
I had someone that worked for me in the Army that tried to slit his wrists (funny huh?). All it got him was 8 weeks of intensive therapy and a discharge from the service.
I had a friend that tried to kill herself in my house by overdosing on pills. I don't remember what kind, not sleeping pills or pain pills. She had some issues and was looking for attention. She locked herself in the bathroom, took the pills, and then unlocked the door. The ambulance came, took her to the hospital, and pumped her stomach. She said a stomach pump was the worst thing she'd ever gone through and that she'd never do that again. She ended up going to a therapist too.
Me personally, since death fascinates me, I'd have to say that I thought about what it would be like to commit suicide. But that's as far as it got. If you commit suicide, you lose. Don't be a loser.
Valtyr posted 06-20-99 08:59 PM ET
Yes. I've tried it three times.
Picker posted 06-22-99 10:41 AM ET
10 times today.
jig posted 06-22-99 06:13 PM ET
I don't see the point in plain old suicide. If you really want to kill yourself wouldn't it be better to strap a bomb on yourself and run into the marketplace?
Krushala posted 06-22-99 06:42 PM ET
Can't say I've seriously condidered it. Too much to live for. Anyway the taking out innocent people has been done to death. I suggest jumping off a tall building. Just avoid innocent people. It gives you a few seconds to consider your action.
Valtyr posted 06-22-99 07:16 PM ET
The first time I jumped off the wharf, the second I actually stood on a chair with a rope around my neck before I reconsidered (don't know if that counts as an attempted suicide) and the third time was an overdose. That was over three years ago, though. I'm doing much better now.
TheHelperMonkey posted 06-22-99 10:04 PM ET
Why would anyone want to kill themselves?
TheHelperMonkey posted 06-22-99 10:04 PM ET
Why would anyone want to kill themselves?
Dreadnought posted 06-22-99 11:58 PM ET
I read that whenever people attempt to kill themselves, they always regret it during the actual act. This must be especially truthfull jumping off a tall building. Just falling for a few moments, thinking about how you will hit the ground. What if you change your mind when falling?
The Great Sephiroth posted 06-23-99 03:04 AM ET
I though about it after I took one of those forum polls. Also after I bought CtP!

Really, I never have tried. No reason to.
M_ashwell posted 06-23-99 09:52 AM ET
this may b a sic topic but how does everyone see themselvs going?
Resource Consumer posted 06-23-99 05:56 PM ET
I take Jig's point.
.. but I just hate to make a mess.
4Horses posted 06-23-99 06:35 PM ET
I don't know how I'm going but I do know where. South!
Frodo83 posted 06-23-99 07:28 PM ET
Sometimes I just pretended I would kill myself to scare my parents, at times in my life when I was very angry with them, but I would never seriously do it.
dilbert posted 06-23-99 07:54 PM ET
If I survive the initial blast of a nuclear war, I will first arrange a clean way to dispose my body and then blast my brain away with a bullet. No reason to waste away in a radioactive world and see the wretched remains of the humanity.
Q Cubed posted 06-23-99 09:57 PM ET
hmm....
I think Dogbert would be more than happy to oblige. Catbert, on the other hand, would be the one launching them big nukes.
Koshko posted 06-23-99 10:22 PM ET
Eccles, I guess this explains your obsession with death from your prev post.
I never seriously thought about commiting suicide, but I used to know someone who commited suicide. At one time She lived down the street from me. At that time, we were both Seniors in HS.
I agree with jig. If you really want to kill yourselves, you might as well take a bunch of innocent bystanders with you. This way your death can be Front Page News.
Galen posted 06-23-99 10:39 PM ET
I have, but it was a really stupid try. I'm saving up on Prozac b/c I don't feel like taking the drug and in case I feel like killing myself at a later date.
Provost Harrison posted 06-24-99 01:38 PM ET
I'm saddened to see that so many of you think like this. I understand why. Everything seems to be going wrong in my life compared to 5 years ago when everything seemed to be going great. My academic life went down the bog, and as for love life, well, still on the starting blocks. Well, at least I've still got my health, but not if I keep on putting on weight like this.
I reckon that the best way to suicide must be to shoot you in the head. See, if your brains have gone, so have you. It very rarely fails (especially if you have something you know will blow your brains out), whereas others like poisoning can have agonising after-effects if you fail. Or theres jumping of cliffs....
....I have thought about it, but in the end, I've been so depressed, I wouldn't even spare myself the luxury of suicide.
Provost Harrison posted 06-24-99 01:53 PM ET
Well, there's no best way. That should have read there's jumping off cliffs. I hate it when I make a balls up!
JohnIII posted 06-24-99 02:10 PM ET
Would any of you consider doing a Denethor and burn yourself and attempt to burn your son?
John III
Provost Harrison posted 06-24-99 06:14 PM ET
Yes, but unfortunately, I don't have a son!
DerekM posted 06-25-99 12:29 PM ET
The goal of life is to be happy. Killing yourself does not achieve that goal -- rather, you are abdicating your responsiblity to yourself and to the people around you.
You cannot be happy through anger, hate or violence, so taking others with you does nothing but deprive others of the same thing you are looking for, happiness. It is a bitter, petty thing to do, akin to popping a child's balloon because you don't have one.
To be happy, you need patience and tolerance, and you need to understand yourself. I recommend a book titled "The Art of Happiness," by the Dalai Lama. It made me think about things in a way that I could accept. The best thing about it is that you can understand it whether you are an athiest or fervently religious.
My personal philosophy is this. I control my own life. I choose to do or not do things. Regardless of the reasons or outside influences, it is still my choice. I take responsibility for those choices. I try to live by this idea, and maintain the integrity of my beliefs. There are rational reasons for things, including why people choose to help each other. Hurt and pain come from misunderstandings, either of oneself or someone else. I have many goals in my life, but the ultimate one is to be happy.
There is room for a lot of variation there, and I don't always live up to my own standards. If you try to be happy, and understand that happiness comes from within yourself, then suicide should never be an option.
Valtyr posted 06-25-99 05:39 PM ET
All I can say is that I wasn't really me .
Q Cubed posted 06-25-99 10:56 PM ET
Actually, in my case, I myself don't understand exactly why I attempted it.
I won't be trying it again, since even though Claritin's potent, it doesn't work, and gives you a bad feeling in your tummy for the rest of the week.
That's not something desirable, so it won't be attempted again.
Koshko posted 06-26-99 12:23 AM ET
One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not murder". By commiting suicide, you murdered yourself. (If you're a Christian) this is not a good way for your life to end, blatently breaking a Commandment like that.
Just felt like throwing that in.

Q Cubed posted 06-26-99 01:07 AM ET
Koshko, one of the last things going through a person who's crazed enough to attempt selbstmord is religion.
Provost Harrison posted 06-26-99 05:30 AM ET
The fact is I believe it is genuinely difficult for a person to truly know himself and by comfortable with that, as well as his interaction with his environment. And this is the difficulty. Although I would like to aspire to something better, my time at university has been a painful ordeal. And there is a lot to be said for neurochemical balance. In certain people, this can cause immense distress and agony. Willpower is goodm but when you have the power of your own biochemistry against you, you cannot always win. Depression is not just a figment of peoples imagination, it is an acknowledged clinical condition with sound scientific reasoning. Sometimes, the answer of antidepressants cannot always be avoided.
Krushala posted 06-26-99 09:59 AM ET
Actually religion should be going through their heads before they commit suicide. Because they are going to burn in hell.
jig posted 06-26-99 10:25 AM ET
In the unlikely event that I ever consider suicide, it will only be because of people like Krushala.
Valtyr posted 06-27-99 04:26 AM ET
Krushala: No, they're not. I'll hope you never get any children with deep depression. They couldn't turn to you for any help. Unsensitive #%�@!
Valtyr posted 06-27-99 05:27 AM ET
Insensitive even (I want post edit!).
Krushala posted 06-27-99 09:35 AM ET
Taking a religious stance always seems to piss people off. I wonder why that is. I was kidding about that hell bit. Anyway how do you know they are not going to hell?
Eccles posted 06-27-99 12:12 PM ET
Hmm. People have found faith in religion, as a means to prevent suicide. However, religious opposition to suicide may be just a product of more primitive times, where the church/state wanted to control the individual.
I was completely nihilist when I tried to kill myself. Now all I believe in is love, my Lover came back!
(ahhhhhhh)
Black Dragon posted 06-27-99 01:19 PM ET
Just, FYI, the Catholic Church has changed its stance on suicide. Before, it believed anyone who commits suicide goes straight to hell. Now, it believes that if someone is so mentally ill that they do not know what they are doing they can be saved(The church has recently stated that they beleive extreme insanity can excuse a sin.
Of course, It is not a very safe bet to kill yourself and find out if you go to hell...
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Author	Topic: Anyone ever tried to kill themself?
Eccles	posted 06-19-99 06:17 PM ET And failed obviously. I did once, but I want to hear from you!
Resource Consumer	posted 06-19-99 06:24 PM ET Snap. Copious amounts of alcohol and nearly a bottle of aspirin (why don't they do strawberry flavour, I ask). Result. Considerable vomiting and a headache that lasted 3 days. Advice. Don't do it that way - more people wake up in a mess than those who choke on their own vomit. Resource Consumer - advocating electric fires in bathrooms -
Eccles	posted 06-19-99 06:58 PM ET I had a friend who tried to slit his wrists, he was in the army as well. DUH! Asprin and Voddy? Man! you must have been asking for a slow death
Dreadnought	posted 06-19-99 06:59 PM ET Life's stress became to great, so I fired up a "game" of CTP. I was hoping I would die of boredom.
Q Cubed	posted 06-19-99 07:38 PM ET Claritin doesn't work very well.
umbra1	posted 06-19-99 08:04 PM ET Are you being serious Eccles ? Sorry but I had to ask. Email me.
Philip McCauley	posted 06-19-99 09:17 PM ET I dunno, but in a previous life, I must have done SOMETHING wrong.
Lodi	posted 06-19-99 11:11 PM ET I probably will attempt to take make life though. And slitting your wrists can work, quickly-- if done right. Lodi, The Idjit of Death
Lodi	posted 06-19-99 11:12 PM ET make that "to take my life". and now you better not wonder why i hate myself.
Eccles	posted 06-20-99 07:10 AM ET Yes I am serious. Deadly Serious I just tried to monoxide myself, but I got rescued after a while. Benefits/Disadvantages anyone
4Horses	posted 06-20-99 07:55 AM ET I had someone that worked for me in the Army that tried to slit his wrists (funny huh?). All it got him was 8 weeks of intensive therapy and a discharge from the service. I had a friend that tried to kill herself in my house by overdosing on pills. I don't remember what kind, not sleeping pills or pain pills. She had some issues and was looking for attention. She locked herself in the bathroom, took the pills, and then unlocked the door. The ambulance came, took her to the hospital, and pumped her stomach. She said a stomach pump was the worst thing she'd ever gone through and that she'd never do that again. She ended up going to a therapist too. Me personally, since death fascinates me, I'd have to say that I thought about what it would be like to commit suicide. But that's as far as it got. If you commit suicide, you lose. Don't be a loser.
Valtyr	posted 06-20-99 08:59 PM ET Yes. I've tried it three times.
Picker	posted 06-22-99 10:41 AM ET 10 times today.
jig	posted 06-22-99 06:13 PM ET I don't see the point in plain old suicide. If you really want to kill yourself wouldn't it be better to strap a bomb on yourself and run into the marketplace?
Krushala	posted 06-22-99 06:42 PM ET Can't say I've seriously condidered it. Too much to live for. Anyway the taking out innocent people has been done to death. I suggest jumping off a tall building. Just avoid innocent people. It gives you a few seconds to consider your action.
Valtyr	posted 06-22-99 07:16 PM ET The first time I jumped off the wharf, the second I actually stood on a chair with a rope around my neck before I reconsidered (don't know if that counts as an attempted suicide) and the third time was an overdose. That was over three years ago, though. I'm doing much better now.
TheHelperMonkey	posted 06-22-99 10:04 PM ET Why would anyone want to kill themselves?
TheHelperMonkey	posted 06-22-99 10:04 PM ET Why would anyone want to kill themselves?
Dreadnought	posted 06-22-99 11:58 PM ET I read that whenever people attempt to kill themselves, they always regret it during the actual act. This must be especially truthfull jumping off a tall building. Just falling for a few moments, thinking about how you will hit the ground. What if you change your mind when falling?
The Great Sephiroth	posted 06-23-99 03:04 AM ET I though about it after I took one of those forum polls. Also after I bought CtP! Really, I never have tried. No reason to.
M_ashwell	posted 06-23-99 09:52 AM ET this may b a sic topic but how does everyone see themselvs going?
Resource Consumer	posted 06-23-99 05:56 PM ET I take Jig's point. .. but I just hate to make a mess.
4Horses	posted 06-23-99 06:35 PM ET I don't know how I'm going but I do know where. South!
Frodo83	posted 06-23-99 07:28 PM ET Sometimes I just pretended I would kill myself to scare my parents, at times in my life when I was very angry with them, but I would never seriously do it.
dilbert	posted 06-23-99 07:54 PM ET If I survive the initial blast of a nuclear war, I will first arrange a clean way to dispose my body and then blast my brain away with a bullet. No reason to waste away in a radioactive world and see the wretched remains of the humanity.
Q Cubed	posted 06-23-99 09:57 PM ET hmm.... I think Dogbert would be more than happy to oblige. Catbert, on the other hand, would be the one launching them big nukes.
Koshko	posted 06-23-99 10:22 PM ET Eccles, I guess this explains your obsession with death from your prev post. I never seriously thought about commiting suicide, but I used to know someone who commited suicide. At one time She lived down the street from me. At that time, we were both Seniors in HS. I agree with jig. If you really want to kill yourselves, you might as well take a bunch of innocent bystanders with you. This way your death can be Front Page News.
Galen	posted 06-23-99 10:39 PM ET I have, but it was a really stupid try. I'm saving up on Prozac b/c I don't feel like taking the drug and in case I feel like killing myself at a later date.
Provost Harrison	posted 06-24-99 01:38 PM ET I'm saddened to see that so many of you think like this. I understand why. Everything seems to be going wrong in my life compared to 5 years ago when everything seemed to be going great. My academic life went down the bog, and as for love life, well, still on the starting blocks. Well, at least I've still got my health, but not if I keep on putting on weight like this. I reckon that the best way to suicide must be to shoot you in the head. See, if your brains have gone, so have you. It very rarely fails (especially if you have something you know will blow your brains out), whereas others like poisoning can have agonising after-effects if you fail. Or theres jumping of cliffs.... ....I have thought about it, but in the end, I've been so depressed, I wouldn't even spare myself the luxury of suicide.
Provost Harrison	posted 06-24-99 01:53 PM ET Well, there's no best way. That should have read there's jumping off cliffs. I hate it when I make a balls up!
JohnIII	posted 06-24-99 02:10 PM ET Would any of you consider doing a Denethor and burn yourself and attempt to burn your son? John III
Provost Harrison	posted 06-24-99 06:14 PM ET Yes, but unfortunately, I don't have a son!
DerekM	posted 06-25-99 12:29 PM ET The goal of life is to be happy. Killing yourself does not achieve that goal -- rather, you are abdicating your responsiblity to yourself and to the people around you. You cannot be happy through anger, hate or violence, so taking others with you does nothing but deprive others of the same thing you are looking for, happiness. It is a bitter, petty thing to do, akin to popping a child's balloon because you don't have one. To be happy, you need patience and tolerance, and you need to understand yourself. I recommend a book titled "The Art of Happiness," by the Dalai Lama. It made me think about things in a way that I could accept. The best thing about it is that you can understand it whether you are an athiest or fervently religious. My personal philosophy is this. I control my own life. I choose to do or not do things. Regardless of the reasons or outside influences, it is still my choice. I take responsibility for those choices. I try to live by this idea, and maintain the integrity of my beliefs. There are rational reasons for things, including why people choose to help each other. Hurt and pain come from misunderstandings, either of oneself or someone else. I have many goals in my life, but the ultimate one is to be happy. There is room for a lot of variation there, and I don't always live up to my own standards. If you try to be happy, and understand that happiness comes from within yourself, then suicide should never be an option.
Valtyr	posted 06-25-99 05:39 PM ET All I can say is that I wasn't really me .
Q Cubed	posted 06-25-99 10:56 PM ET Actually, in my case, I myself don't understand exactly why I attempted it. I won't be trying it again, since even though Claritin's potent, it doesn't work, and gives you a bad feeling in your tummy for the rest of the week. That's not something desirable, so it won't be attempted again.
Koshko	posted 06-26-99 12:23 AM ET One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not murder". By commiting suicide, you murdered yourself. (If you're a Christian) this is not a good way for your life to end, blatently breaking a Commandment like that. Just felt like throwing that in.
Q Cubed	posted 06-26-99 01:07 AM ET Koshko, one of the last things going through a person who's crazed enough to attempt selbstmord is religion.
Provost Harrison	posted 06-26-99 05:30 AM ET The fact is I believe it is genuinely difficult for a person to truly know himself and by comfortable with that, as well as his interaction with his environment. And this is the difficulty. Although I would like to aspire to something better, my time at university has been a painful ordeal. And there is a lot to be said for neurochemical balance. In certain people, this can cause immense distress and agony. Willpower is goodm but when you have the power of your own biochemistry against you, you cannot always win. Depression is not just a figment of peoples imagination, it is an acknowledged clinical condition with sound scientific reasoning. Sometimes, the answer of antidepressants cannot always be avoided.
Krushala	posted 06-26-99 09:59 AM ET Actually religion should be going through their heads before they commit suicide. Because they are going to burn in hell.
jig	posted 06-26-99 10:25 AM ET In the unlikely event that I ever consider suicide, it will only be because of people like Krushala.
Valtyr	posted 06-27-99 04:26 AM ET Krushala: No, they're not. I'll hope you never get any children with deep depression. They couldn't turn to you for any help. Unsensitive #%�@!
Valtyr	posted 06-27-99 05:27 AM ET Insensitive even (I want post edit!).
Krushala	posted 06-27-99 09:35 AM ET Taking a religious stance always seems to piss people off. I wonder why that is. I was kidding about that hell bit. Anyway how do you know they are not going to hell?
Eccles	posted 06-27-99 12:12 PM ET Hmm. People have found faith in religion, as a means to prevent suicide. However, religious opposition to suicide may be just a product of more primitive times, where the church/state wanted to control the individual. I was completely nihilist when I tried to kill myself. Now all I believe in is love, my Lover came back! (ahhhhhhh)
Black Dragon	posted 06-27-99 01:19 PM ET Just, FYI, the Catholic Church has changed its stance on suicide. Before, it believed anyone who commits suicide goes straight to hell. Now, it believes that if someone is so mentally ill that they do not know what they are doing they can be saved(The church has recently stated that they beleive extreme insanity can excuse a sin. Of course, It is not a very safe bet to kill yourself and find out if you go to hell...