I'm not sure if anyone else has personal experience on the subject, but I do. I attempted suicide last year, for reasons that I now consider silly and trivial. People say to me "aren't you glad you're alive and that you didn't die?" but I think this is a malformed question. If I had died, I would have went back to how things were before I was born; in other words...nothingness. I wouldn't have "missed out" on anything because I wouldn't be able to feel any regret. If I knew what I knew now, and went back in time to the day of my suicide attempt, I would have done things differently and obviously not chosen suicide.

Do I regret having attempted suicide? No, I consider it a learning experience.

My position may be extremist, but I don't think people have the right to force other people to remain alive. If someone threatens suicide, they're automatically hospitalized and placed in the mental wing of the hospital. I think it's silly how the government can force someone to remain alive against their will. The government does not have ownership over your life, only you do.

With all of that being said, I do not encourage suicide. I'd personally prefer people didn't do it, and somehow managed to work out their problems themselves.

Suicide is painless. It brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

In the cases of extreme mental illness, it becomes an inevitability.

And I never bought the whole "it's a detriment to the people around you" argument. If somebody is in such a poor mental state that suicide is an option, then they were unbearable to the people around them. In these cases, suicide can actually be the best option all around.

God I sound like such a dick when I say that ;)

Suicide can be inevitable at times. If you are mentaly unstable, or have extreme issues. Many poeple who don't understand what its like. my guess is that many people on the other side have not gone through thinking of sucide.

People who don't want you to commit suicide are selfish for wanting to keep you around for their own selfish reasons.

Rush hour traffic is so bad that, not only should they make suicide legal, they should randomly pick people and get them to off themselves ;)

I don't have the right to tell another person what they can and can't do with their body, but apparently some people think they do. I wouldn't be easily pushed to suicide because I don't believe I get to respawn afterwards, however I would see it as a viable option if I was overcome with serious illness or something happened that was so utterly disastrous I couldn't even fuck off and live in the woods.

From a purely Satanist point of view it's probably one of the dumbest things you can do; there's only one life, this one, so there's no sense prematurely ending it.

However, I also believe that at times life may become unbareable and it's the only way out.

It seems people only commit suicide for four reasons:

1. Insanity. In this case it is tragic, but it is also often unavoidable outside of 24/7 restraints--which in many cases may be worse than death. People should mourn their own loss in these instances, but not mourn another's escape from their insanity. The ideal situation of course is a cure. Sometimes there is not one. As of now, this is an unavoidable thing in a certain percent of us people unfortunately. Maybe someday all mental illness will have a cure.

2. A misplaced sense of honor or pride. If you're a samurai and cool as shit, it's still a silly and useless act. If you're a spoiled trust fund baby turned venture capitalist who lost mommy and daddy's fortune and so jumped out a window 1930's style, fuck you and good riddance. This type is utterly avoidable, in the first instance, a waist of a cool ass samurai, in the second, "why avoid it?" I say.

3. Constant pain and unavoidable pending death. In this instance suicide is not any more selfish than eating or sleeping and should be made as comfortable as possible for the individual. It is avoidable, but denying it to someone is cruelty I believe.

4. Momentary insanity. This is the most tragic kind. Maybe a kid tried LSD for the first time and went nuts for a while, maybe someone was in a weird place and just got "curious" about death and took it too far, maybe it was a cry for help that went too far (thought whether that's actually suicide or not is debatable). It's more like a self-inflicted homicide than an act of will. This type too is unavoidable. Sometimes it's just going to happen unfortunately.

I can guess at the pain and trauma some people have endured, and sometimes it really seems like there is no way out, especially with the present system where many young people are either in debt, still living with their parents or both. Which means you would feel pretty powerless to affect any situation, and you can't have your wn life. A 'glass cage', if you will. Then you have added emotional pressures such as relationships, mental illness, work. Maybe some people can handle less than others, and are put under more pressure (like balloons).

And then you have the one-factor types such as the death of your family/lover, or loss of limbs. People born without limbs should not be compared to people who have lost limbs. It's a huge shock that leads to terrible depression.

You get allsorts of types of suicides. The only people that annoy me are the ones who go diving onto motorways, under cars/trains/trucks. That's plain selfish, for the obvious reasons.

Sometimes a person thinks that things are not going to get better and will decide to take a quick exit from this world.