Stupidest thing anyone has said to you suicide related?

[They call me Death.]

I'll go first. My mom (through WhatsApp) a couple of days ago while I was drunk and ahout to ctb; "stop saying you'll kill yourself because we know you never will. You're afraid to die every day so don't say stuff like that because all your negativity is exhausting to live with and you won't do it anyway!" - Is that... a challenge, mother?

 

[itsallogrenow]

A police officer telling me I have so much more to live for, purely based on the fact that we are the same age

How is that relevant?

 

[SASU-KE]

Apart from that statement, how does she treat you? Obviously that's an extremely stupid thing to say. A lot of people don't take suicide seriously until it happens.

 

[Alexandra_]

Many people say that suicide is for the weak. I disagree. Because, in my opinion, suicide is the hardest step.
Also, many people say it's not a solution. But for me personally, death is the only way out. Because only death can end this terrible torment

 

[spellbound]

It irritates me most because people think they're clever when they say it
"You're gonna die someday anyways, so why hurry ?"
This one gets a big sigh out of me every time

 

[UserFromNowhere]

Honestly, I haven't heard the platitudes that most people have direct experience of outside of hearing other people talk about them online, and I am extremely fortunate for that as it probably would've led my thinking to spiral even further if someone directly said it to me.

With that context, I'd say the... not stupidest or worst thing, but the weird advice and expectation that I'd get rid of my suicide paraphernalia or put them out of reach when I brought up my thoughts in therapy. Of course, they never knew what exactly I had access to because I wasn't willing to tell them, so I just played it off as the conventional methods someone would use to attempt suicide (ODs, crashing a car, etc.) rather than actually telling them I had the means within my reach.

Strangely, having them around still provides a comfort, even if I don't end up using them. Again, the advice/expectation wasn't stupid or bad, it just feels it wasn't proportional to my circumstance at the time. It still isn't. I despise the term, but, for lack of a better word, I wasn't a "common" suicidal case of someone who would attempt because they had the means within their reach. I wasn't a case of someone at the level that they would just give up their methods because they feared taking their own life and wanted to get better, despite any character of such I may have been exuded in my responses. I'm not a special case, there are plenty of people here that have been in similar mindsets and situations, but it wasn't a "common" case that could be fixed my merely stating the person should remove the methods from their reach either.

 

[itsallogrenow]

It irritates me most because people think they're clever when they say it
"You're gonna die someday anyways, so why hurry ?"
This one gets a big sigh out of me every time

"wHy nOt wAiT A fEw mOrE dEcAdEs?"

 

[thelostautistic]

The head of sixth form at my old school told me "suicide was the most selfish thing you can do" I understand that people have this opinion and that's fine but it's not a nice thing to say to a 16/17 year old that's struggling. I'm 24 now and I've never forgotten that. He made me feel like I was horrible person for feeling suicidal. As if it's a choice to feel this low.

It irritates me most because people think they're clever when they say it
"You're gonna die someday anyways, so why hurry ?"
This one gets a big sigh out of me every time

Is it bad that this made me laugh

 

[Spit On My Grave]

A preacher one day told me god is watching you

 

[Passenger4224]

Someone once copypasted the entire Bojack Horseman Poem

But even that isn't as stupid as the religious virtue signaling