Unfortunately the atheists will have to kill themselves to prove the point

[Brian37]

I too have made several attempts on my own life, for deeply personal reasons none of which have to do with atheism. The attempts have ranged from alcohol assisted overdose to slitting my wrists with broken glass and all of them were deadly serious, not cries for help or any such thing. It could be argued that if I were truly serious then I would have succeeded, but that doesn't take into account quite how surprisingly difficult it is to make a person die. My excuses, if that's what zero-minded twats wish to call them, mainly centre around consideration for whoever finds my body; I wouldn't want 'my' day to poison, say, xmas or a person's birthday. Neither am I going to promise that I'm never going to try again.

However, I am reminded of a piece of advice I was given by a good friend on another forum, who supported my right to exit the game without actually endorsing it: never follow any advice that doesn't feel right - including this.

Hope I haven't hurt or shocked anyone too much.

What pisses me off about superstitious morons, is that they think reality is magic. I too, not to your extent, but I too have thought a couple of times of calling it quits.

If one survives any type of death or dies, either way there is no fucking magic to it, and that includes suicide.

No you have not shocked any rational person. Police and doctors and MEs see all sorts of death all the time including suicide.

I am glad I didn't succeed and I bet you have your reasons too. But none of surviving or dying is magical.