It's kind of cowardly in my opinion to cut yourself...cowardly of life and death both. You want to die because you can't live up to the demands life has given you, or you don't want to face your problems. You'd rather die because you are afraid of what will happen if you stay alive. But then, cutting is also something you do because it's something you could die from, but you're not likely to. So you're afraid of dying because you aren't sure what the consequences will be. Pain, of course, but what about life after death? Reincarnation? Going to Hell? Or Heaven? Basically, it's cowardly and rather hypocritical to cut yourself. It's a solution to a problem you can never get out of until you make a choice.

sucide is one of the two most unforgiven sins.the other is blasphemy of the holy ghost. sucide is a sin because you are giving up on god.

It's really not that complicated. There's two kinds of suicidal people; the first kind yammer and yammers and fails and fails and just can't seem to die (that's the ones who want attention, 'cause it's not really that hard to die), the second kind really wants to die (and they're not here anymore to talk about it, so I guess we'll never know what they were thinking).

Sure the suicidals who talk say they talk about it to because 'that's just how they feel', but really, if you feel that way - REALLY feel that way - you WANT to do something about it. You WANT to get help. You don't talk about it, you don't embrace it and you certainly don't flaunt it.

Suicide is cowardly nor strong, it's something we'll never understand and will never have the right to judge simply because of that.

on the person. i cut myself the first time cuz i wanted to die, to escape from this hateful world and my emotions that at the time were overwhelming. the next time i cut it was to make sure i was human and still bled to relieve a little bit of the stress in my life by causing myself pain. it just depends on who you are.

_Ash

Make up your mind. Is this topic about cutting, or is it about suicide?

I think cutting is your way of wanting to do sucide but you didn’t do it or your too scared to do it. So people can’t control somethings so they have to control something. So i think it’s both if that makes sense.

I tried to commit suicide about a year ago. It wasn't because of drugs or 'my life being shit' or any of (what seems to me as) the usual reasons people try to do it. I wanted to die because i was bored of life, disliked it and found it unendingly pointless. It's nothing to do with cowardice, it isn't running away from life it is just making a decision that you do not want to do it anymore. People say that suicide is a cowards way out because it is a typical knee jerk reaction to try and stop people from killing themselves, of course there are cases when suicide could be cowardly, but look me in the fact and tell the the many Samurai who commited Hari Kari were cowardly. Suicide isn't something so black and white because like all issues afflicting people they are different to each individual, really it depends on the reasons for your suicide that determines whether it was cowardly or not.

How could anyone think that suicide is a cowards way out? It is our selfish desires that would cause us to see suicide this way. I have often thought about suicide myself. What scares me is that it can be rationalized. After all, death is a part of life. There is no exscaping it. Ask anyone and they will most likely tell you that death is their greatest fear. Even the person thinking suicide. As far as God's involvement. I believe, if God exist, that he is a loving God not a vengful one. How dare anyone think to know what God would do to that un fortunate person. If a loving compassionate God exsist, Was it his intent for us to suffer excruciating pain before we are allowed to enter the kindom of heaven? I think not. So,this brings us to the topic of, what is enough suffering? Undoubtedly the vast majority of people attempting suicide have, after counseling, later admitted they did not want to really die. I am talking about those suffering from some form of social injustice, or psychological impairment. But even with these people who accidently may have succeeded, it was not cowardly. To end one's own life? come on! think about this. They may not have understood or comprehended the finallity, but they were not cowards. It is a shame that one ends their life, because of social or psychological reasoning, and the shame is on us as a society. But, it is not cowardly. From this point I see physical suffering much differently. If a person is suffering physically, and they know that death is just a matter of time, and they are couragous enough to want to end it, they should be allowed their dignity. NOT ASSISTANCE! that is another matter.

Suicide doesnt get you anywhere! No reason is great enough for someone to kill themselfs! Live in Peace and learn to love yourself! Doing that doesnt have to be naiv, if you really know where your heart is! I have been on both of the sides....i like living on the positive side of life! =D

Even if suiside is an escape you search an escape becouse you are afraid of life. Cutting is another thing, I think it is simply a way to realiaze hate.

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;— To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death,— The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn No traveller returns,—puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

Taken from Hamlet. Shakespeare raises a good point.

Suicide is by no means a good solution to things. First off, it's the cowardly, easy way out. Everyone has it in them to face life, no matter how rough it may seem. I'm not gonna go into the whole "it'll get better" mess. That's so cliche and worn out that I almost don't believe it. Remember, though, that no matter what there ARE people who are going to be sad about your death. Which brings me to my final point, suicide is perhaps THE most selfish action anyone can take. Those who do fail to take into consideration what their death will do to others, their friends, family members. Of course there are those who DO realize this and continue along their self-destructive path just to be noticed. Wrong answer. All in all, suicide is not the right answer.