Why do people commit suicide in order to run away from life?
Suicides occur when the pain of living, is greater than the pain of dying. I’ve been through six suicide attempts in the last two years. Two were successful in that I had to be revived. I didn’t have the right skills to cope with the problems at hand. And I was surrounded by people/events that only increased the problems as well. Suicidal thoughts generally grow over time, rarely is it the first response to a crisis event. The person thinks out what they are going to do, how to do it, where to do it. Most, but not all suicidal persons, give clear warning signs asking for help. On my sleeping pill overdose, I had friends over at the house, well, my wife’s friends, while I was going through my file cabinets and shreadding EVERY document – I wasn’t going to leave anything behind. They saw me on the computer deleting files – massive file deletions. I had given away certain property – like my book collection, or thrown away my collectables so no one else could have them. I spoke in cryptic
