Suicide is not the answer

[SerenBaker]

Just in case anyone here is considering this as an option--STOP IT RIGHT NOW.

A very dear friend killed himself over the weekend because his girlfriend broke up with him. They have a six year old daughter together and lived in the same small apartment building so they could be near each other without actually living together. She broke up with him, and he got mad and depressed and I think he might have been trying to scare her, but the pills he took were very strong, and now he's gone.

I'm so angry at him, I can't tell you. He had no thought about their daughter and what it would mean to her to lose her daddy, no thought for his friends at the fire hall, the Knights of Columbus, the kids he taught at Sunday school, all his family and friends--just wanted to hurt her. Well, he succeeded, and devastated all those other people as well.

So if you're thinking about taking this selfish way out--reconsider and think of all the people whose lives you touch, even if you don't realize it. Reach out to anyone, and get help!

[starshimmer]

How awful! I hope people listen to your story. I feel so sorry for that person. To feel so hopeless...I know I feel hopeless too sometimes, but not to that extent that I want to end my life.

Life is too precious, even with all its heartaches, to lose it over one person's folly and foolish choices. One thing I have learned is that all things change, even, someday, this hard time will too.

[jessi_rubin]

If you really think that giving up your lfe for a person who did adultry with you is justified then I think that you should think up again. we have a really short life and should try to enjoy it as best as we can. I know that it hurts when someone who you love a lot betrays you, but you can do nothing about it. Its life and you have to live by the terms it govern not the other way round. Try doing something you like and that would help you a lot against this self abuse.

[alexis]

Taking your own life for the faults of others is never the correct answer. I have watched about 3 people close to me consider this, and I am always the person smacking them in the back of the head and telling them STOP THAT BS!

I have no issues being awake for two days talking to a person in need of a good shoulder to cry on. I have been there, I understand the hardcore pain of being cheated on by someone you held so dear to you and trusted. But taking ones life is never the answer. It won't change that cheater, and it will not give you what you truly deserver (a better life with a better person). :)