POST SUICIDE......do your loved ones suffer more if

[foucault]

POST SUICIDE......do your loved ones suffer more if you tell them in advance and they are unable to stop you or if you just do it and they are shocked to find out you've killed yourself.?

Im not gonna kill myself , Im just looking at potential thesis topics.


Please offer your honest opinions with as much detail as you're willing to share..if you're interested enough to comment at all.


and yes im a grad student who says gonna whenever he feels like it.

[aldra]

I'd think the former.

CIA 'interrogators' have long discovered that the threat of pain is far more effective than the pain itself.

[foucault]

I think its a valid point .. and I guess I need to be a little more specific. Let's assume a 24 hour time-line. Would that change your opinion aldra?

[aldra]

there's no way to know for sure; different people handle emotional burdens like that in different ways.

generally speaking, though, I'd think that knowing someone you loved intended to kill themselves (and also not sympathising with them, ie. a terminal cancer patient) would instill you with a sense of helplessness... the longer it goes on, the more emotional stress you're under.

that said, I have a friend whose mother has serious mental issues and has threatened to off herself for years. after a while, a part of him started to wish she'd just do it, because after such a long period of not being able to help and her not being able to help herself, he started to believe (at least partially) that if things weren't going to get better it may be prudent just to cut her losses, so to speak.