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Suicide, don't look for help here
I looked in here to see how people answered the question on how to kill yourself painlessly. I was absolutely amazed at the callous answers. Instead of offering advice for the question asked everyone just jumped on the person for wanting to commit suicide when "their" lives were sooooo much worse. The person that asked for advice didn't even tell you how bad their life was so how do you know if yours was worse. If you can't help a person by answering the question they asked then just don't answer, don't trash the person who is obviously very sad already and doesn't need to be told how selfish and horrible they are.
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No one on this site will ever tell anyone how to kill themselves. This is not what we do here. What we do is try to give a person a reason to live. We offer hope, advice and places they can go or call for help.
When advisors tell someone of their own life they do so in a form of compassion to show the person writing that they are not alone. That others have felt as they have and have found a reason to live. Suicide is not an answer it is the wrong solution that cannot be turned back.
When I answer these types of questions I generally say something like, "there is no problem so large, so burdensome that there is not someone that can help you find a solution." "This is what we do we help you find solutions." When they say no one cares about them. I respond, "we care if we didn't we would not be writing back to you."
So don't tell me we are callous or we trash people for wanting to commit suicide. I have not seen on advisor trash a person who has written about committing suicide. If the person tells us what their problem is we take the time to research where they can get help. The only real problem we have; is we never know if we have helped, if we have stopped someone from committing suicide. Only twice in all the years I have been doing this has anyone written back to me to tell me my help was successful.
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No on is required to help another person commit suicide.
People are free to answer questions here to the best of their ability, and everyone should answer questions in accordance with their own conscience.
You are right: If you want help committing suicide, this is the wrong place to be. Strangers online are unlikely to assist you in ending your own life. With just the small snippet of information they get here on this anonymous website, it would be irresponsible for them to do so.
I agree that telling someone they are being selfish or horrible is not an effective way to handle a suicide question, but just because someone doesn't agree with the person who asked the question, or tell them exactly what they want to hear, doesn't mean they are being mean. There are people here who give lousy advice. There are also people here who answer questions with great sympathy and respect - while at the same time advising people not to kill themselves.
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