What keeps you from committing suicide?

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what keeps me from committing suicide?

suicide is not an option.

Funny, I was just asking myself this question when I saw the thread title. I don't know what keeps me from committing suicide, though. It must be the instinct of survival. I have nothing to live for, no one who'd care or even notice I was gone.

That I may be able to achieve my goals, and someday be far more content then I am today.

Understanding that I'm going or am about to go through a challenging and stressful period in my young life. And it will get better, most likely.

Knowing that I'm going to die someday anyway and I might as well stay here a little longer, since if I really plan and look to death then nothing has meaning here anyway.

Of course if I had to boil it right down to the one thing that would never let me commit suicide is I have a weak willed indecisive mind, and the pain I might experience if I wasn't successful.

People's stupidity.

Yeah that's sadly the truth. Now matter how precise my suicidal letter would be, my family and friends would still be morons about why I killed myself.

People are mad at me for being alive but then if I were to kill myself I would still have people made at me.

You can't please anyone.

My cats plus wanting to see what happens.
What Obama does to turn back dubya's fascist policies; if he and Hillary can change worldview of the US back to more positive..
What happens in the next decade.....from now til 2020 should be freakin amazing. It's getting harder to survive. So if it turns out we don't make it...oh well...c'est la vie. So just wait and see what happens.

When I have felt suicidal, I know I cannot do it because of my son.

Probably the fact that it would be the most selfish act probable and I wouldn't want to put my family through that experience. Sure, I fear that if I'm a failure in college (and I can never get a good job and live as a big nothing), I'd have thoughts of killing myself so I don't live a life of emptiness but I'd never actually do it. I suppose, I'll let the natural causes play out since I'll die eventually.

Many reasons already mentioned by others.

I still feel hopeful somewhere.

I don't want to miss my chance of punishing humanity.

The idea of not being aware, not existing, scares me. I want to believe in some kind of afterlive or alternative existence.

Yes, I agree. Wanting to see what happens to the world is a good reason to stay alive.

Because there are people who still need me. I have no wish to live in this world one minute longer than I have to. I pray to God daily that, as soon as I've done whatever it is I need to do, that he'll take me. But if I ever wind up truly alone, I'll be gone. This world has nothing for me. I've been holding on ever since I realized I was different, and it's left me weary, cynical, grumpy, and bitter, far beyond my years. I'm not happy. I stay here not for myself, but for others I can help.

I don't know what will happen to my dependents. I imagine them being horribly abused if I'm not around to protect them. It's actually "selfish". You'll always be needed somewhere...soup kitchens, big brother/big sister organizations, animal shelters, etc... The world is a big place!

humor and that I want to change the world for the better.... I feel suicidal a least once a week
also the urge for knolege and to help people and god he will take when need be.
I would not think twiceo forfit my life for the greater good.

I'm allergic to pain. And there are some people I haven't gotten revenge on yet.

the only way i could commit suicide is to bludgeon myself to death with a heavy blunt instrument.
but since i am rather lazy, i could not be bothered.

Isn't that a similar problem to trying to crucify yourself? It works fine up to the point when you realise there is no way of hammering in that last nail.

Probably the pain and thinking about how sad my family and friends would be if I decided to.