No easy way out...

Jan 18, 2008 - 20:32 PM PST

I was just thinking on what had happened to Debra last week, and it got me thinking on the whole suicide thing. I mean, I know that it was an accident, but she has been talking in her blog about not wanting to be alive anymore too, so I thought it a worthwhile thing to bring to the table. I had a friend who took a lot of pills last year, wanting to die. Really, he didn't take all that many and just ended up getting really sick. I remember him telling me that he just wanted to take a bunch of pills and fall asleep and never wake up. But here's the thing...

There is no easy way to die. Dying is contrary to what your body is supposed to do. In fact, it is the most contrary thing that your body can do. We are hardwired to live. Think about it. We feel pain when something is wrong with our body. So, it would follow course that death, naturally being the most wrong thing you can do to your body, would be extremely painful.

A lot of suicide methods are glamourized too, like death by car exhaustion. A lot of people think that when you suffocate from carbon dioxide poisoning you just fall asleep and die. In reality, most people who die from car exhaustion end up having serious convulsions and die from choking on their own vomit. Not pretty. Not fun. It's even been reported from various sources that people who receive lethal injections feel pain before they die. Then you also have to consider the implications of things far worse than death. What if those pills you take don't make you die? And they completely damage your liver or even worse damage your brain for the rest of your life.

If you think about all of the hundreds of ways a person can kill themselves, in reality none of them are quick and painless. They are all either really messy, really painful, really prolonged or a combination of the three. Any method that is truly going to get the job done is going to be hard and it's going to hurt, BAD. So choose life, mmmkay?