26 percent of jilted lovers attempt suicide.  Why would a person take their own life just because they were dumped?  

Feelings of worthlessness because they base all their value they have as a human being on what that one person thinks about them.  They usually have low self esteem and this just proves to them that they are unlovable and worthless to anyone else on the planet. 

I believe that they would try to take their life because the other person was their own value.  By their own value, I mean that the other person was their entire world, their thoughts, beliefs, hungers, etc. 

I think that a person that would commit suicide has some feelings of hopelessness, loneliness, and/or they feel as though if they were not around they couldn't be hurt anymore.  I also think that they would feel like the pain would stop that is inside of them. 

My beliefs on suicide are very personal. I strongly feel if a person believe suicide is the answer to their questions, should seek help such as: counseling, speaking with a clergy, group therapy, prayer and/or confiding with friends or family. There is always another answer to the most difficult questions in our lives. However, going through such personal trials such as: break-ups, relationship troubles, family, job and much more can cause a PERSON to feel helpless, alone and hopeless. This is a serious issue and must be taken as such. If you know of someone going through some issues of their own, help them to seek HELP before it's too late.

I think this would happen because the person who attemps suicide feels helpless and unworthy. After being dumped a person can feel lonley and rejected and not needed. All these feeling could result in suicide.

Suicide is a weird thing, people see it as away out but, it is really a selfious way out.  You are only thinking of yourself and in the end you are really hurting the ones that really care about you.  Things happen use your head and take emotion out of the situation and you will see the path that you need to take.  I am not saying that it is easy to do this however, once you start seeing and reminding yourself that no matter how bad you have it someone else has worse, you can make it better. 

Let me start off by saying that I have experienced being in a relationship where my signifigant other was in a state where he thought that suicide was the answer to all the disfunctional thoughts in his head and in his past. When it came time to actually end the relationship he used it as a tool to keep me around. Everytime an attempt was made because of me trying to end the realtionship I was always the one left feeling like it was all my fault and then I would stay. I was only hurting myself. I had come to realize that there are many different degrees of suicidal actions. Some are all talk and use suicide as a tool to manipulate. Some that use it for attention or a rash idea that its the answer to end all thier problems. And there are the people that really have a disorder mentally and that need professional help. No one should ever take thier own life for it only hurts the people that are being left behind with the questions with no answers. If you know someone that you think might be suicidal, take it seriously. Take to them or someone.

 The person feels like their not worthy.  They also have very low self-esteem.  Being dumped just pushed them over the edge.  They want to feel accepted and loved.  Sometimes people handle that in the wroung way.

WHY WOULD A PERSON TAKE THEIR OWN LIFE JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE DUMPED.THEY FEEL WORTHLESS BECAUSE THEY PUT ALL OF THEIR TIME AND ENERGY INTO ONE PERSON.THEY FEEL UNLOVED BY ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE THEY PUT EVERYTHING THIS ONE PERSON AND WHEN THE THOUGHT OF SUICIDE COMES TO MIND THEY DON'T REALIZE THE PEOPLE THEY HURT.

Well suicide is a result of the fall of man in the beginning.  So suicide or anything else that is against God's Word is of the flesh indeed.  I know if more people come to the realization the need for the forgiveness and repentance of sins to a Holy God and the salvation that can be granted provided by the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Then those pull of the flesh can be battled.

Suicide is a very unfortunate choice for any member of the human race. There are so many other choices. We didnot create life so we have no business destroying it. If this world was more of a community suicide would be nothing more than a word. We need to uplift one another and band togther when times are challenging.

As I read the other postings I am so amazed at how different we all are but yet we are a lot alike. Suicide to some people is the only way out of a life they don't have the will to keep living. I have not ever considered suicide but that is not because I have not had extremely hard times, but because I know Jesus did not give his life so that I can take my own! Some people can go to extreme dark places, where they feel thier life is worthless. This from a 30 + woman, Can you imagine life at 16,17,18 and you want to end a life what you have not even began to live? OMG (Oh my God)! Suicide, wow..that is really deep! for anyone that has ever had thoughts...KEEP YOUR HEAD UP! It will get better. In my world suicide is not an option, although both my kids and myself have had people we knew to take thier own lives. My heart aches just thinking about it.

When  people are in relationship they build their entire world around their mate. They feel as if this other person completes or makes them who they are. So when a relationship end people feel as if their entire world has come to a complete stop. They feel as if they can't function and carry out day to day task. without their mate they feel helpless and depressed.So they feel if that suicide can help take all their pain and hurt. We as woman must take a positive outlook on the situation, and keep it moving.

We all know love hurts and at some point and time have felt like you can't live without the other person and some people take it literally.  I feel a person with very low self esteem about themselves and think for some strange reason they will not be able to attract anyone else would attempt suicide

Rejection is an ugly feeling.  I mean really, to love someone that completely that when they no longer want to be with you anymore, you feel life isn't worth living is outrageous.  I feel that is a person suffering from a serious chemical imbalance like they have split from reality.  Even if that person is seeing a professional and talking about what is really going on inside their minds, they could be leaving out important information for whatever their reasons may be, therefore, they are not getting the help they really need or deserve.  There are so many different forms of mental illness that it is hard to say why someone would even want to commit suicide.  For the public you can put on one face and behind closed doors who knows, it is really scary.  I know that during my parents divorcing process, my mother was found in a hotel on the verge of suicide herself and had a short stay in a psychiatric hospital.  In her case it wasn't that she was losing the great love of her life, she was losing everything else like the money, material posessions, and security in old age.  The marriage was not a healthy one either.  My father was an alcoholic, abusive, physically, mentally, emotionally, and verbally and my mother suffers from severe depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsion and still does to this day, so who really knows what was going through her mind on that scary night in the hotel.  And believe me she struggles with this on a daily basis, but she is under doctor's care and I do my best to stay informed on her illnesses and watch her closely and try to keep her talking out any problem no matter how big or small (to her they are all big).  For her anyway, that seems to help remove suicidal thoughts from her mind even if it is only temporary.  Belive me I do not condone suicide, but I am saying that you really do have to know someone's true mental status before judging their decision to end their own life and pray for their soul and pray that their mind is truly at peace in the afterlife.  

A freind of  mine took his own life about  nine years ago. it was the most difficult time of my life. It started when he noticed that a friend of his, which was a close one, started to date his girl behind his back while he would work out of town, the guy was so in love with her he would do anything for her at any given time" when he heard about this he did not know how to conform to the norm, so with everything else that was bothering him, he went out of town that weekend sent his mother a letter in the mail telling her what he was going to do, and why" so he pulled the car over and started drinkiing and smoking and then he shot his self in the head, the next two days the letter arrived at the house stating what he was going to do and why. At this point in his life he felt like nobody loved him and nobody cared, he was feeling worthless and betrayed and adjustment was not a part of his world.  people kill themselves because they are in a world all by themselves, and hurting and feel like they don't have anyone to turn to but there are people all over the world that will help you cope with your problems.So if you fill like you can't adjust to certan things in your life please talk to someone A.S.P. when a person kills himself or herself he or she kills the people around them.

My husband had a motorcycle accident 2 years ago..Everything was put on me, plus my Mother was in a nursing home dying with cancer...My husband shattered everything from the waist down...28 screws and 3 steel plates later after 6 weeks trauma unit, then 6 weeks in a nursing home, he came home...I was trying to work, take care of him and see to my Mom...For 2 years after being married for 36 years, he put me down to a nub to the ground...I did nothing right, I was not worthy of him, and all this time I'm taking care of everything.  Thank goodness for insurance...After 7 months, he was able to start walking with a walker, then a cane...Now he walks slow, but thank God he can walk...In the past year, he has met 2 different women and talking on his cell phone to them...Calls to and from each other every day.  I never dreamed my husband would do this to me...The cell phones are in my name and I have the bill on the internet, so he thinks I'm just stupid...He has put so much in my face and everything is me, me, and me...Everything is for him....I have no where to go, and my Mom died this past September....I cannot even grieve for her...I owe $2,000.00 more on her funeral and I asked him if we could pay this out of our savings account...His statement was, we don't need to right now, what are they going to do, dig her up....This is just a taste of what has been going on since his accident...Yes, I can understand suicide, but I know my 3 daughters or my 5 wonderful grandchildren would never understand...When I go to work or coming home, I drive 45 minutes each way down I-85 and I think about just driving under a tractor trailer, but I know that driver or someone else may get hurt..Or the driver may have feelings that could harm him or his family...I would never want to hurt anyone...I just want out of this misery..I feel so lonely and not loved as a wife, as I was loved at one time....Sorry this is so long, but some comfort comes from typing this....May God Bless Each and Every One that reads this...I hope your spouse walks up to you each day and puts their arms around you and reminds you of their love.

In my opinion, for what it is worth. 

People who attempt or accomplish suicide because of being "dumped" have not learned the life skills necessary for defining their self-worth from themself.  They define their self-worth from others, what others think, what others say, what others do.  So when they get dumped, what they "See" is that the other person thinks they are crap...or worse.  Regardless of what their friends and family do or say to contradict it, the person that they have fixated on provides their basis for self esteem and has , in their eyes, technically taken that self esteem and destroyed it.

Contrarily, in the eyes of those who are doing it, the dumping is more than likely an act of self preservation.  Because, the dumpee with no self esteem has become an emotional leech.  Sucking the life and energy and love out of not only the relationship, but out of the other person.  The dumpee is so needy, needing emotional support, needing constant gratification, needing all the love and more, needing all the time.  Needing so much, smothering the other person so much that the only way to get away is to literally get away.