The final cut.

The finality of death means that we can never know what runs through a person’s mind as they take their own life. However, there are cases of people who jumped from bridges to end their lives and by some freak stroke of fate, lived to tell their tale. They speak of intense regret the moment they jumped.

All of us have different circumstances, different pain and different reactions to pain. Your pain might overpower the thought of the aftermath of your death and the pain your loved ones have to endure. It might even overpower your natural survival and self protection instinct.

Please delay any action. Do whatever it takes to let in that voice of survival, if not of hope. There is a chance, however small it might be, that things will improve. Distinguish trigger events from the underlying depression. Don’t act on trigger events. I’ve been there and I’m able to write this now. My circumstances are not the same as yours, but please let my words reach your hearts.

Love.