As my quote says, being suicidal and thinking rationally are mutually exclusive. If you're suicidal you really can't think rationally. If you can think rationally you aren't really suicidal. Of course, that's just my experience based on three full blown suicide attempts and a number of lesser attempts, plus other times of feeling suicidal.

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem." Please don't ever say this to someone who is suicidal. That guilt, that shame, that feeling like there's truly something very wrong with me and I'm right to kill my worthless self is likely to push them to try.

Believe it or not, to the suicidal person committing suicide IS rational and logical. Like I said, being suicidal and thinking rationally are mutually exclusive. To that person, the world would be better off without having a worthless piece of human garbage, an utter failure like them, to be a drain on society. I felt it would be less cruel to my family to grieve my loss knowing I wasn't in pain any more than to have to watch me be in agony day after day. Of course I meant mental and emotional agony.

You can't "think yourself happy" out of depression let alone suicide. "But you have so much going for you." BS. I'm an utter failure, a piece of crap. "Think of...