What keeps you from committing suicide?

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Since this is 'The Haven', I know alot of you have entertained the thought of suicide, and some of you might have actually done it and come back as zombies. Anyway, what's actually stopping you from going through with it?

For me, it's the thought of my family being sad afterwards.

One of my goals is to live to be 125 years old, so suicide would derail that.

When I feel that life isn't worth living, I read my Atlas. It reminds me of all the places I've never seen. I don't want to die before I've been to most of the countries in the world (I have exceptions, mostly the countries with oppressive regimes, cos I am too big-mouthed to go anywhere where telling the truth will get me arrested).

The main thing for me always used to be curiousity. I'm too curious to find out what will happen next in life.

i don't care for my family as they are on of the main reasons behind my suicidal tendencies/
hope for love keeps me alive, and also like many holocaust victims I want to stay alive in order to tell my story and to make all nasty people i met in life see how inhuman and unjust they are/

Don't know.
Most likely my friends + don't like pain. Seeing as most methods of suicide seem pretty painful to me....
Oh. And my weird thing about becoming an "object". Don't really know how to explain that one.

I second that, I still have much to learn and see.

My dogs

The idea of a better future...

Why choose a permanent solution (as death) for a temporary problem/ challenge in life?

reincarnation from an eastern perspective: fear of having to return to this planet and relive all the dramas and lessons...

nothing. Doh!

My best friend. Even though we are both in rough times. I would say I would rather live a life of misery then burden him with my pathetic death. I have had it happen to me but I don't want it to happen to him.

I know once I get out of this damn town life will get much better so I have to hang onto that. But more importantly, there are a couple of people who want me to hang on and I will do it for them, but most importantly I'll hang on for myself. My life sucks right now but all I need is a major change in my life. Unfortunately, moving is not an option until I finish my classes at the local community college which will be another 1-2 years. But who knows, something else may come along before then.

1. I don't want to distress my family.

2. Life is pretty neat when I'm left to do my own thing.

3. I'm still hoping it'll all come together and make some sort of sense one day.

4. I'm a science-fiction fan and have always been fascinated with the future. Who knows what it might hold?

Because I tried it and failed. You know your life is really sh!t and you've really hit rock bottom when you can't even succeed at that!

But basically, it did mean that however bad I felt at that particular moment in time, I've since gone on to live through some really wonderful times, things took a turn for the better, yeah, things haven't been all plain sailing, I've also had some more bad times, but know that when you're absolutely convinced - as I was - that things are really bad, and they'll never, ever get any better... to find out that I had been wrong.

Well, if I had succeeded, I would never have known I was wrong, I would never have known that things would, in fact, get better. And even though I was convinced it was so, my friends wouldn't actually have been better off without me. In fact, I found out who my true friends were and are.

The lesson I learned, and which I would like to pass on to anyone considering it is: Don't. Don't do it. No matter how bad you think things are, there is always a way to get round or get over whatever problem seems to have driven you to this point. And in a year, or five or ten years, when you're looking back on this point, and you've lived through some wonderful experiences, met some lovely people, you will be so relieved, so glad that you didn't do it.