Discussion How many people you have known have died by suicide? (Not including this site.) Poll

[Forever Sleep]

I've seen it asked a few times. It's probably a bit distasteful to put it in a poll but, I suppose I'm curious.

For the poll, I've requested to exclude people on the forum. I suppose because we were presumably already suicidal when we came here. Plus, it goes with the territory that people here may well end up taking their own lives.

Do you think experiencing or knowing about suicides within the family/ friend group mean people are more likely to consider and do it themselves? Do you think having one or multiple suicides within a family and friend group makes it more or less permissible in the group?

I haven't actually known anyone in real life that took their own life. So, I suppose that's the other question. Do you think your potential suicide may 'encourage' others?

If it transpires that I don't feel able to hold on for my Dad to go first, I think my suicide would deeply hurt him. Probably not to suicide though. But, the shock may be enough to bring on 'natural' ailments. The rest of my family are very distant now. I suppose I wonder sometimes how cousins I've never even met would feel. Would it feel shameful maybe. I suspect they'd feel next to nothing at all. Or rather, I hope so. It's not my intention to hurt people with it.

 

[itsgone2]

20 people so far. Sad, even though we want the same thing.

 

[Namelesa]

0. tho I have suspicious that one might have but that isn't confirmed.

 

[Forever Sleep]

20 people so far. Sad, even though we want the same thing.

I'm so sorry. I never expected someone to know so many.

 

[FadingSnowFake]

Two people, one a school friend when we were 11-13. We went to different high schools but still saw each other around. She got married at some point, and they were always together, didn't have kids, always seemed so genuinely happy and into each other. Five years ago, she would've been 45, her mom passed, and the following month her husband got really ill very quickly and passed too. She and her husband didn't attend the same church as his parents and then there was a fight about which church to have his memorial service at. I believe her last words, before pulling the trigger, were "it doesn't matter anymore". I'm happy that she had those very happy years of being so alive and in love. The other person was a colleague, who wasn't so lucky to have had the same happiness in life.

 

[LighthouseHermit]

3 people close to me.

 

[TAW122]

Not counting people on SaSu nor indirectly, I perhaps know maybe just one person who has died via CTB (though it was never really confirmed but heavily implied).