I know this post is old, but I wanted to add my two cents' worth.
If people around me, whether I know them or not, express the desire to off themselves, I write them off as a loss and cut ties with them. I don't think anyone is obligated to help them. I think offing oneself is a terrible thing to put others through. Someone has to watch it happen or be the one to find them. It's wrong to do that to anyone.
I know I'll get blasted for feeling this way. I'll be told I don't get their struggle. If not here, then anywhere else I express this. I don't care. I'm right to feel that it's wrong, whether others agree or not.
Have you ever heard of a Witness Survivor? It means more than one thing, but for the sake of this post, it concerns people who see it happen or arrive afterward. It's a horrible thing to do to someone. Anyone selfish enough to traumatize others this way deserves success in their endeavor and doesn't deserve sympathy for having done it.
I understand their struggle because I fixated on it after I saw my father kill himself with a .357 magnum revolver with hollow points. I hate him for what my son and I both saw that day. It absolutely isn't right to hurt others just because you want to hurt yourself.
I think it's okay to let them jump. Leave and let them do it. They don't care about you. Don't concern yourself with them.
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