Transcript: Please Don’t Kill Yourself. By Anna Akana.
So I was thinking. I’ve been pretty open that my sister committed suicide in 2007. And I’ve been getting a lot of question from people on the internet of like: ‘I want to kill myself, what should I do?’
If you commit suicide. I don’t even know, like I don’t even know, what would happen to you. All I really know is what happens to the people around you if you die.
I think it will be really really hard for your family to live normally for a long. And um, if you commit suicide, people will miss you. A lot.
Damn it, I don’t want to cry, because if I cry I won’t want to put this up. But its a message that I want to get out there. Um, so I’m sorry in advance if I cry.
I hate editing things that I cry in and you’re just watching yourself cry and then you have to edit it and then actively export that which takes like, 10 minutes. And then you have to upload it to the internet which takes awhile, so this process in showing the world that I have cried at this moment that you’re watching.
If you commit suicide. Your brother, your sister, your mother, your friend, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your child. All those people, they really really love you. And will be really fucking confused for the rest of their lives. And really angry. And really jealous.
I’m jealous of everyone who has a sister, you know. It’s been like 6 years since she died. And it is still really hard to talk about. I mean, in just a real way. I can say a sentence here and there in a video. And it feels good to talk about it, especially if I’m trying to put a message there.
But like,And at the end of the day, you know there’s someone who’s suppose to be in your life right now, but they’re not. And they never will be again. Probably. Actually, most definitely not because we all die.
But, ugh, it just forces you to ask yourself a lot of questions you’re never going to get the answer to. So it just feels like a lot fucking unnecessary pain like brooding and agonizing and it feels so shitty. And unfair. And you’ll wrestle with these same emotions over and over again every time you think about it.
So you try not to think about it but if you don’t think about it you can’t work your way through and working your way through it fucking sucks because there is so much of it everywhere. Everywhere you turn its there. It influences who you are, its like a before and after, this event, you did, I’m a different person. And I don’t know if its for the better or for the worse. And I fucking hate you and I fucking love you.
And… just don’t do it. Just don’t do it. So stupid. Death is stupid. I don’t like it. But yea, that’s pretty much what happens after you kill yourself for a long long time after that decision. And there’s like so many extra years you would have had that things would have changed, ya know?