When I go I want to do it for someone's benefit

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I'm feeling a bit like killing myself but I'm determined I don't just do it because I hate myself. I want to do it for a good cause as well. I think it's tragic that so many people commit suicide without considering they could do it for a good cause as well as ending their suffering.

For example, I could hold up a sign with a political message, before taking a gun out of my pocket and shooting myself in the temple. At least it would make my death more palatable for anyone who will miss me. Does anyone agree with me?

Sorry, I went rambling completely off topic, just don't do it, for any cause.

You'd make a bigger impact by staying here and working for change. Killing yourself will get attention for a while but then people will forget. It doesn't do the cause any good either. Years ago a monk killed himself by self immolation (publicly) to protest the Viet Nam War. Guess what kind of impact that had? You don't need to save the world, just try to make your little corner of it better for yourself and others. Hope you feel better.

It would seem to make sense, but killing yourself for a cause isn't taken that way by the public. They may briefly mention the cause you claimed to be supporting in the news, but really, they're just going to concentrate on the fact that you MUST have been mentally disturbed in some way for you to get to that point. No one's going to go out and support the cause of someone they've been told by the media was crazy. It sucks that people who DO kill themselves for a particular reason that could be helped are just written off as crazy...but that's the way the world works. Nobody takes Al-Queda any more seriously because they kill themselves. Nobody tries to stop childhood bullying because a kid killed themselves over it...they just continue to ignore it until another kid kills themselves. That's actually the main things that keeps me from thinking about it....how I will just be seen as MORE crazy if I did it.

That's a unique way to view suicide. Personally speaking I consider suicide ... unfathomable. Mostly because I don't do well with change, or roller coasters, or dancing. But there has to be a view of "I'm killing myself" while committing the act of suicide.... Perhaps a healthy view, perhaps not - but killing before your life ends naturally is just that... ending a precious commodity. Its like money, so many people have it but throw it away - and here I am struggling to get by. Life should be considered the same... You want to be helpful? Get a job or do something for someone. Not being a jerk - but I'm saying the most you shooting yourself in public wearing a sign will do is block traffic - piss off a few cops - and make a few children cry. Then of course your family if any (will be pissed/sad). And we all get to wake up in the morning the next day and hear a kid died from leukemia at 10 after fighting for 3 years to save himself and another guy shot himself wearing a sign that said "Vote McCain"..

Having saved a friend from suicide, I have a personal perspective on this issue. Unless you kill yourself while heroically rescuing a busload of children, a train filled with emergency rations or medicine, or something similar, your death will be looked at just as the others above described.

I understand from my experience with my friend that life can become so unbearably painful that death seems like an appealing alternative. She explained it enough times and in enough ways that, combined with some reading on the subject, I accept that some people reach that point.

What you do at that point is critical. Finding a cause to die for is easy; finding a cause to live for is harder (paraphrase from a line in the sci-fi series "Babylon 5"). If you need a cause to keep going, then I hope you'll find one.

Do not kill yourself. For any cause. Period.