I HAVE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE KILLING THEMSELVES 3 TIMES TODAY SO HERE IS MY POINT OF VIEW.
I personally had made moves towards killing myself many years ago not because of sexuality but it all leads to the same place and feelings of hopelessness. And what I would say to your friend is that. Killing yourself will stop the TEMPORARY pain that you feel BUT it will also PERMANENTLY stop everything else that goes on with you. There is no turning back from death you can’t fix that you can’t move on you can’t grow from it. Will you teach your family a lesson maybe but at what cost? And you won’t be around to reap the benefits of that lesson. There is no guarantee that your family will ever accept you for being a homosexual but the real question is do you accept yourself. Do you love yourself enough as you are to be strong and move pass this, to grow from it, to allow it to make you stronger? And think of the people that do love and accept you the way you are friends, family, coworkers, and school mates. What are you saying to them by killing yourself, that their acceptance, love, & support are not enough for me? Is that fair to those who do accept you? NO it isn’t. So my advice to anyone who is considering suicide to look at you for a very long time & think is it worth it? Then when you realize that it isn’t because it is not worth it. You cut the people out of your life that would make you feel otherwise family or not and you grab tight to those who love you as you are and you begin to heal. The pain will still be there but it will lessen as you go and those people who don’t accept you will either come around or stay out of your life. But DON’T rob people of your presence that truly want you around.
MUCH LUV
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