Thank you so much Laura for this post...............i emplore pepole to read this and the link.

Lara.........i have said many times on this forum...........SUICIDE is a momentary and iratic act.........one lead /instigated and performed via an unwell mind.............

As for the desciption of THE peace before the storm [suicide calm]..........SO TRUE.....

Maybe i've always advocated momentary maddness for the act of Suicide......because i truly believe thats what it is.............

In times of sheer terror of life its self......when you feel like the preverbial rat..trapped in a barrel..knowing the cat is on its way in......PEOPLE FREEZE/SWITCH OFF FROM REALITY/ACT IRRATIONALY/TAKE DRASTIC ACTIONS............Fear is the greatest motive IMO for suicide.....that can be fear of rejection , if you tell someone your inner thoughts, not being believed that your demons are real....most of all the fear of not being able to do what society expects...GET A GRIP/PULL YOUR SELF TOGETHER/YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS ETC.........................


Suicide pervention IMHO...begins with breaking down this awful TABOO.... people dont tell friends & loved ones they want to die......because they do not want to be scorned..ridiculed..even COMMITTED....................THEY want to express their turmoil, sadness, hoplessness, desperation,.....all the things we as humans rarely share with those we care for.....................

When i was in the Royal Navy many moons ago.........a fellow service man....attempted suicide...[took pills, he survived....many said it was not a serious attempt, he was attention seeking, a coward etc...............the sad thing was this young man like me..
.had joined the Royal Navy because his father was a Comadore[high ranking officer]...........he expected his son to join...the lad ...refused to go in through officer training but join the rank and file............[to annoy his father]......but he desperately did not want to be there....he did it out of an obligation..............his attempted suicide got him a medical discharge...............i dont know what happened to him after............but i hope he made a life for himself...............independent of other peoples expectations.?

I also know of a man 42 yeares old....who to the world was a perfect gentleman..good husband...great father.......WHO .hung himself completely out of the blue............only at his funeral did his family realise he had been made redundant...yet for the three weeks before his death continued to act as though he was going to work, and acting in their eyes completely normal.


It is impossible to know the inner thoughts of anyone...........impossible...........

Yet thats what makes it harder for those left behind.

Lara i applaud you posting this thread..............thank you.......

Suicide is a thought in the human mind, if the thought is not shared....it can become an action.......too some the last action they ever do...for others.....a possibility of addressing the thought.

FOR GOD SAKE SHARE THE THOUGHT...

DAVID