Understanding Suicide: Why We Have the Urge to End it All

Our contradictory reactions to the act of suicide speak to the conflicted hold it has on our imaginations: revulsion mixed with fascination, scorn leavened with pity. It is a cardinal sin — but change the packaging a little, and suicide assumes the guise of heroism or high passion, the stuff of literature and art.

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  1. (deleted name and email address-Admin)
    my name is **** I am suicidal alot how can I get help for this problem how can I understand me more why do I do things that I do. I feel like im evil sometimes like im pathetic why man why me I can never seem to do anything right everything wrong happens to me. I need help.

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