When you go through with it how are you going to write your note? I plan on using an essay format as opposed to the standard apologetic letter format. I want to be able to communicate the logical reasoning behind my actions. I will use the standard essay with a thesis and use discouraging anecdotes from my past to consolidate and prove an overall point.  I just want people who read it to be able to accept it.
Most of all, I do not want to across as pompous. Suicide is a conceded selfish act, and that is the last thing I want expressed from my act.
Thoughts?
How will you write it out? How would you convince the others that your pain has become too burdensome?
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Read mine. I don’t know if it’s any good I’m waiting for an opinion.
I am almost too lazy to write my note, i have some stuff down but If I write everything I want to its looking more like a book. I will still be misunderstood once im gone anyway
No matter how well you write your note, no matter how convincing (to you), it will not EVER make those who deeply, truly love you understand or accept your decision. To them it will feel like–and be–abandonment… that you didn’t care enough about them to keep fighting, keep going, keep trying other solutions. It is irrelevant how much they see and feel your pain, how many times you are hospitalized etc. ~ especially if those people are your children. I am confident of this from the words of some very good therapists and a psychiatrist who was also a dear friend, mut most of all I am confident of this because that is what my children (both adult) have told me and that’s what some of their private writings I ran across while moving proved. People may “get it” on a cerebral level, but it will never be understood, accepted or “gotten” on a heart and gut level. It just hurts too much.