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Ok, first let me address a pet peeve. There is no such thing as rock bottom! I know it's a cool buzzword Fight Club made popular but it doesn't exist. Things can always get worse. Depending on one's perspective, that can shed light on a situation or make it seem even more hopeless. Personally, I don't like comparing my life to a horribly gaunt Somalian child in order to say "Hey, I have it pretty good. It could always be worse." Yes, it indeed could be worse but it's like apples and oranges. On the same token, I can understand a perfectly physically healthy billionaire hating his life.
Suicide and its implications have been running through my mind awhile. It might be presumptuous to assume this, but my guess is after death there is nothing. If there is nothingness then is it wrong to prefer that over somethingness that is absolutely miserable? I refuse to accept a role on Earth as simply a living organism that maintains the status quo for surrounding people. However if I could be shown that someone else, maybe even a number of people, in a very similar situation have moved on to enjoy life then I could be convinced. I've yet to see this empirical evidence though. There are generally skewed variables in both the positive and negative directions. For example, someone might say I'm in your sitiuation BUT I do have friends and perfect physical health (positive) or I'm in your situation BUT my father is an abusive alcoholic (negative). Either way, the deviation only helps to not convince me of anything.
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