on suicide: my comment on an artist's blog

If I could only find one point on which to turn the world around..." --- or something to that effect (disclaimer: i totally forgot who among the great many people who ever lived said this, but it sure didn't come from me nor any of my classmates)...

in any case, my stake at contemplating suicide is...

...don't be stupid! go up the highest tower you can find and try looking down and imagine your body splattered on the ground below with trucks, car, buses and motorcycles rolling on it and your intestines splattered all over the place.

better yet, get a pellet gun and put a pellet inside, get a pillow and put it against your temple. hold the pillow in place with one hand and the pellet gun with your other hand. the barrel should face the pillow. in short, it's your head > the pillow > the pellet gun. then try pulling the pellet gun and see if the pellet would give you an idea of how painful using a gun is.

If you're still not satisfied, go to your kitchen. sit down on the chair at the dining table. Then stop breathing for 5-10 minutes. And please, please, do not cheat!

Or, grab 7 buckets of water - from the pool, from the garden hose or from the sink -, sit down on the patio and drink the water one glass after another so you could try getting a taste of how it is to drown.

Another way is, put your hand on the table, grab a hammer and give it one huge pound or you can even go to the street and have your friend run your small toe with his mountain bike...

Lastly, just get married and try living with your wife/hisband and then with hoards of other relatives, particularly the in-laws. more mature people say that it's hell.

if those cannot cure you, then you may as well die from the pain so... go ahead and do it!

But seriously, everyone contemplating on suicide should try one or all of these things I mentioned. heee. then maybe people will realize what a less painful way of going about things and situations staying alive is.