How Often Do You Think About Suicide?

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you will die inevitably one day anyway.
so it will end now or later. all the same in the blink of time

The last time I thought about suicide was in 2000.

I've been depressed lately, so just about every day, but I try to push those thoughts aside and replace them with something positive.
When it comes to what triggers it, it mostly is thoughts of people who have treated me badly in my life and uncertainty about my future and what I'm going to do with my life and if I'll ever be happy.
Also, if anybody here ever needs to talk, please message me I really don't want any of you to hurt yourselves ever.

A favorite Nietzsche quote is: 'The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.'

Like Nietzsche, I find the possibility of suicide a comfort. It means that if I prepare ahead, I will always have a way out of the worst that can happen. But first I can try other options.

A similar way to think about suicide is the way lawyers are supposed to think about litigation: a last option when all else fails. One arbitration specialist (whose name escapes me; one of his books is called "Getting to Yes") calls litigation your "BATNA": Best Alternative to a Negotiated Settlement. IMO, my life BATNA is suicide. I never have to accept a worse fate than nothingness. (Of course, this wouldn't work if I believed in a hell.)

For myself never but I don't see that as an option.

this two year old post used to say something meaningful but i became so embarrassed about it that all the content was removed.

i think it meant to say that i no longer think about it as much as i used to, and that's still true. recently i went through a health scare for no apparent reason and my suicidal feelings spiked, but i think they are going back down now.

I can't recall the last time I had a suicidal thought. It's been a few years or so & the difference has been that I figured out the biochemical causes of the depressive thoughts I once had and how to treat them via diet and natural medicines. It seems a distant past life when I thought and felt that way.

I do think about it when I hear about others' struggles, though. And I thought about it (not my own suicidal thoughts, but thinking about suicide itself) last night when I saw this meme pic on Facebook that I came here to share now:

I'm off the scale, i.e. I've thought about it less than once a year. I think about it only as a doomsday option, I want the ability to painlessly kill myself if we get a global holocaust or if I get an incurable disease that's so horrendous that I'd be better off dead.

Never because I don't hate myself...

Used to be daily, but I think its down to maybe 2 or 3 times a week, which relative to my life, is actually pretty good considering what I am going through.

A lot. I find mostly that dealing with other people brings me a lot of stress, but being lonely makes me sad. So I keep trying and getting hurt.

Sometimes I just wish I never had to wake up again. Sometimes I want to do something deliberate to make the pain stop.

But I won't because I have people who rely in me and I can't leave them.

it is too narrow a poll. Since suicide is the ultimate non-negotiable solution. There needs to be the rare and never categories.
With exception of tumultuous time in my 20s ...I maybe have though about it once a decade, but not in any serious way.