If you're reading this, there is at least a small part in you that doesn't want to die. Listen to it, and please read on.

If you thinking of committing suicide then you should consider these important reasons not to do it.

1) Because you have already been through so much pain and do not need more pain added to that.

2) Because you do not deserve to be hurt, not by anyone, not even yourself.

3) Because there are safer, gentler ways to find some relief and you deserve to find those ways.

4) Because even if you do not believe it, hurting yourself will hurt the people who truly love you.

5) Because you deserve to be treated gently and with love, not with hate.

6) Because you will hurt your body and your body is not to blame for anything.

7) Because hurting yourself is abusing yourself, and you do not deserve to be abused.

8) Because it's better and kinder to reach out to others and get support, or to find inner resources to rely on, rather than to add to your own hurt and torment

9) Because you are lovable and loved, and deserve to be treated with love.

10) Because things will get better, and you will find more of what you need.

11) Consider this – if you're trying to escape from the pain you are in and seek relief, suicide is not the answer. You cannot feel relief, or anything else for that matter, if you are dead. You must stay alive in order to feel the relief you seek

12) Suicide is final – once it's done, there's no changing your mind. Since you have even the slightest of doubts, you owe it to yourself to stay alive.

13) By terminating your life right now, you terminate your future. Consider this – we create our own future. You have the power to create whatever future you wish for yourself. But you need to be alive in order to have that future.

14) If you're sensitive enough to be in so much pain that you no longer want to live, you're probably sensitive enough to care about, and want to help others. Maybe you don't feel like helping anyone else right now, but why not help yourself? And perhaps by not killing yourself and overcoming your difficulties you can later help someone else who is in a similar situation.

15) You're too young to give up, too old to give in, and just the right age to decide to be happy.

16) You still haven't done everything you've always wanted to do. Give yourself a chance to live - truly live - before you decide to die.

17) Before you decide to take your own life, consider who will find you, and what seeing you like that will do to that person's mind, body, and spirit.

18) Death won't relieve you of the responsibility of living and learning.

19) Your family would be devastated. Trust me on this, suicide does damage you cannot begin to comprehend.

20) No matter how many bad things have happened in your life, there have also been many good things. Focus on the good stuff, not the bad.

21) Treat bad experiences the same. A bad memory is a bad memory whether it stems from the real world or the realm of dreams - after all, your mind can't tell the difference while you're asleep - so there's no reason to hang on to one past more than another. Let go, take a deep breath, and forge ahead knowing that the worst is over.

22) Finally, don't do it because I'm personally asking you not to. Whatever you're feeling, whatever you're going through, things can get better – I know because I've been there. Maybe I haven't experienced exactly what you have, but not only have I thought of suicide, I tried it – thankfully I was unsuccessful and I can speak from personal experience when I tell you things can get better.

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None of this was truly in my own words... But I got this information from these websites (Plus some of these are just websites that may be helpful to some of you out there that may feel this way):

http://www.the-bright-side.org/site/thebrightside/section/325

http://www.xojane.com/healthy/50-reasons-not-to-kill-yourself

http://www.xojane.com/issues/why-not-to-kill-yourself

http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

http://www.speakingofsuicide.com/2014/05/14/coping-statements/

http://www.speakingofsuicide.com/2013/04/15/are-you-thinking-of-killing-yourself/