Is there any condition that if you found yourself in, would make you want to commit suicide?

If I was blind I would want to. It’s one of my biggest fears.

If I was at the end of a painful terminal illness and the pain became more than I could take, I would consider it than but I am not sure if I would or wouldn’t.

@Randy I think that’s mine as well.

-Rape
-Living alone my entire life
-Someone is literally going to kill me. I won’t give them the satisfaction.
-Excessive torture
—-Including a disease which incurs massive pain
-Massive public humiliation
—-Or entire world literally turning against me

I don’t know. If I was in the situation your referring to, I just might know then.

If the inevitable asteroid was heading for earth, I’d like to have the cyanide pill just before it did.

If Janet Reno said she was having my baby.

Two very dear family member died from ALS My aunt and years later, my cousin – her son. That is something I never want to see again. It was heartbreaking to watch their agony.

ALS is terminal and cruel. It is one of those things that I could not rule suicide out.

In short, no.

A degenerative brain disease.

Also, being agoraphobic, in the wrong body, in chronic pain, out of work, and only just at the beginning stages of possibly being able to fix any of that makes one consider it quite often.

I think I would opt to freeze myself.

But no, if freezing wasn’t an option…I’d say extreme tortures…but I don’t think a disease would beat me to the point in which I would commit suicide….I was semi kidding about the freezing part by the way. Though, if there was absolutely no chance at all of me making it out of the disease, I may consider the freezing.

I’m sure there are. A terminal illness is an easy one. Most likely there are other circumstances that I can’t imagine right now but that would make my course plain if the time came. The people who jumped from the twin towers didn’t go to work that day thinking they’d be committing suicide in an hour.

I can’t think of any. I’d hate to be in any of the conditions listed above, but I just love life itself too much. I try to see the best in any situation, and I try to appreciate the things I can learn from folly. I don’t fear death, but I just don’t want to speed the process.

Of course, one never knows how one will react to extreme situations. I just hope I won’t cave in.

Yup, if I lost all my kiddos & my husband (I’m actually having a hard time even typing this & I couldn’t use the “d” word)...there is absolutely no way I would be able to keep going or would even want to keep going. I’d end myself because I wouldn’t be able to bear it…unless I just went quietly insane

Even if I had a painful terminal illness, as long as I still found some joy in life I wouldn’t do it. If all of my ability to experience happiness (no matter how small) were gone with no hope of recovery, I would give it some serious thought.

I have also always thought that if I killed someone (purposefully or accidentally) I wouldn’t be able to live with the guilt, and would probably end up killing myself.

Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem.

@DrBill – ALS? Unless they’ve made some huge strides in the progress to find a cure, I thought it was still terminal. I know there are cases where the lifespan has gotten longer. Also, I’m talking when thing are really bad. I think as long as you have some kind of life, you need to live it!

@cak

I would consider that more like euthanasia, which I think is an act of mercy to relive suffering. I think we think alike, just using different words.

Probably. I just wish they would had the choice, watching them go through that, that’s not okay. I see where you are, though and I’m with you.

I’m sorry, but this question is kind of disturbing. While I believe that we are all encouraged to ask and respond to questions, I think that this could prove discouraging to people on this site who may be going through such issues. I’d like to think that “surely no one would” but then there is the possibility that someone could read this, and think, “I’m going through that too, what do I have to live for?”

Alzheimer’s. I will have neither the people to care for me, nor the funds to have care provided.

I can’t think of a situation where I would. In a life-threatening emergency, where it seems unlikely that I could make it out alive and that my last few moments would be torturous, I’d like to think that I’d still struggle to the very end to survive.

If I lost my child or my fiance, I’m pretty sure that they would want me to continue to live my life. I’d hope that I would work to make the world at least a slightly better place in their memory.

In the case of a terminal illness, I’d like to think that I might somehow live long enough to inspire someone else with my struggle. Who am I to decide that it’s my time to go? Perhaps my life is only to serve as a warning to others.

I suppose if I committed some horrible crime that landed me in prison forever, I might see things differently. If there was no hope of parole…who knows? That is one of my greatest fears. But even then, I hope I could find some meaning to my life.

@AlfredaPrufrock At least you wouldn’t remember you were in your situation.

Losing a really close friend or family member in a tragic way.
I’m a very emotional person.. I couldn’t even imagine how I’d handle it. I’m incredibly scared that it will happen some day. I just lost a not so close friend a few months ago and it constantly crosses my mind. I still write him emails.. knowing he won’t get them.

Life is a gift. Suffering is a part of life.

Alzheimers- I watched my Grandfather enter into it and knew what he would do based on him watching his older sister suffer

Excessive pain- from disease, injury or whatever

I saw an interesting program on TV years ago, which followed three people who said they wanted to commit suicide as a result of each of their diseases (each was terminal, and frought with unhappy side effects such as pain or inability to care for oneself). We saw each person get sicker and sicker, less able to control the pain, the body, yet not one of them took the option they had planned to commit suicide—each person said that whatever the life they were having was, they wanted to continue it.

It made an impression on me.

@skfinkel – I do think it would be a very low percentage.

As someone that has been there and back, with cancer. I can tell you there were many, many points where I wanted to give up, but with cancer – to me, there are so many things to try.

I think the right should be there, but it should be offered under a very strict set of rules. I don’t know that I would do the end of the world, thing or for blindness – but that’s a choice. I do think mine leans to the area of medically assisted suicide. It would have to be something so completely devastating and even then, I can’t even being to imagine how hard that decision would be.

I just read an article about Lance Armstrong. It made me want to give up, just knowing that I will never be that strong.