A serious suicide attempt is not a cry for help.
It is a cry that started when we emerged from our mother’s wombs. How happy did any of us look then? And the sickening thing, the beaming smiles on the faces of our owners, I mean “parents”. How greedy parents look when that new child emerges. “You are mine”, they cry, “mine forever”. And how the child screams, shrieks and squirms to get away from them, to get away from all of it.  All of it a grotesque, bloody, display of ownership and enslavement; a foreshadowing of what is to come.
A suicide attempt is a cry for freedom from an existence we did not want, or need, to be brought into.
No one who is serious about committing suicide is asking for help to stay alive. No one who is serious about committing suicide wants you to interfere and stop them.
When someone attempts suicide, stand back and step aside. They are a bird who has been in a cage for far too long.
If you would come across a caged bird who has been pecking at his bars for ages, and who has finally managed a hole large enough to crawl out of, would you block his way? Would you be so brazen?
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I would tell the bird to spread his/her wings and fly away. “Be free little birdie, spread your wings and fly”.
Have you ever considered getting a motorcycle? It’s the closest you can get to flying on land.
there are other ways of achieving freedom too.
It’s been known for some people to later thank those who interfere. I know your situation and it’s unfortunate. There isn’t a lot that can be done about it.
Yeah its devastating, any kind of catastrophic birth defects, brain injury or paralysis, it’s just another world. A world apart. People say “go out and make something of yourself” most of us can’t get out of bed. If I had somebody elses arms, legs, brain, bones, sure I could make something of myself. The most frightening thing in the world is that you can be dead and alive at the same time and be kept that way indefinitely.