r/Dying Jul 24 '26

šŸ‘‹ Welcome to r/Dying - please read this first!

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Hello! If you found your way here, you're probably dealing with something tough. Whether you or a loved one is terminally ill, or feeling suicidal, or grappling with death in general, this is not an easy topic.

What r/Dying is for
This is a forum for death-related discussions, support and questions. Death and dying have many facets, so everything from trying to come to terms with one's own or a loved one's impending death, bereavement, practical, spiritual, cultural, or legal aspects of dying come up; whatever is on your mind.

If you or someone close to you is personally needing end-of-life care and need someone to talk to, we encourage you also to reach out and speak to a professional mental health care provider. In r/Dying, we're not licensed professionals and cannot provide such a level of support, and are not trained to handle end-of-life care. However, we do offer a community that can listen.

If you are here to read and offer a shoulder or an ear, please do so as you are able.

Resources

If you have resources you'd like to share, send a mod message and we'll address it as we are able to. Thank so much!

What r/Dying is not
As much as we appreciate the pain that many redditors are going through when they come here, this is not a suicide support forum. You deserve immediate, strong support. We're a really small subreddit with a tiny mod team. We're not set up to directly intervene with acutely suicidal OPs.

  • Suicidal ideation is an emergency. If you are thinking of ending your life, please reach out to emergency services in your country, a local crisis center, religious center to speak to someone who can offer resources and assistance. You are not alone.
  • Please also visit r/SuicideWatch. It is a very well-moderated community with very many caring users who can provide much better, more timely support than we can.
  • If you see a suicidal person posting in r/Dying, please use reddit's reporting tools to flag them.

Under no circumstances should anyone be posting instructions or resources for how to commit suicide, or encouraging anyone to do so. Please do not ask for, and do not provide instructions. Report posts that do so!

Please also report any suspicious posts, spam, and unsupportive or sarcastic content.


r/Dying Aug 08 '19

Welcome to r/Dying

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First thing's first: You're not alone.

If you are thinking of ending your life, we encourage you to contact your local crisis center, public help organization, or religious center to speak to someone who can offer resources and assistance. We at r/dying are NOT licensed or trained to handle end-of-life care, but they are and can help you on your journey. Veterans in the US and those with phone anxiety, there are options for you! Please check out the sidebar on the website below for texting and specialty services for Veterans.

CLICK HERE FOR INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES.

If you are here to talk about how you feel or just get it all out, we encourage you to do so if you just want to put it out there so others can see.

If you are here to read and offer a shoulder or an ear, please do so as you are able. Please report any suspicious posts and spam content, edgelords, and sarcasm are not permitted.

If you are a family member or friend of a person in end-of-life care and need someone to talk to, we encourage you also to reach out and speak to a professional mental health care provider. If you have resources you'd like to share, send a mod message and we'll address it as we are able to. Thank so much!


r/Dying 1h ago

I want to die

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I give up


r/Dying 2h ago

what comes after death?

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I'm just looking for guidance I'm so lost


r/Dying 6h ago

Grief/Loss Would It Be Appropriate To Call Myself Terminally Ill?

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If I have muscular dystrophy that's likely to kill me before 40 would it be fine to call myself terminally ill even though I'm still 20 so have quite a bit of time left? Sorry if this isn't the place to ask, I've never had good access to healthcare so I can't ask this to a doctor.


r/Dying 6h ago

Half agony,Half dead

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r/Dying 12h ago

lowkey a suicide ?

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nalusong paa ko sa baha, may sugat isa kong paa. siguro ilang hours bago nahugasan & i have no plan on telling my family haha c u in a bit


r/Dying 14h ago

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r/Dying 23h ago

I've experienced near death in my dreams

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I become more and more afraid of dying when I see myself getting on the brink of death in my dreams. I have seen myself losing consciousness not suddenly but more like as if there was a stereo fitted in my head, and blood dripping out of my nose, eyes and mouth. It is just merely a dream but it is something I would never ever want to experience in real life.


r/Dying 1d ago

Help fiance through losing a friend?

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My fiance just found out today he lost a friend he used to be very close to to suicide. A few years ago, they had a huge falling out and have not spoken since. The friend died several months ago, and he just found out through another friend that he has not spoken to in a long time.

He deals with his own suicidal ideations and I feel that he partially blames himself. He's not big on talking about feelings, but he has a history of addiction and I'm worried he will turn back to that.

How can I help him actually deal with this? He won't talk to me or his friends, he gets offended when I've suggested therapy in the past. I have no experience dealing with this kind of loss - not because I haven't lost anybody, but because I have always kept people at arms length.


r/Dying 1d ago

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r/Dying 2d ago

Thoughts!!!

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What’s the point of suffering when death is inevitable anyway ?


r/Dying 2d ago

My father is in hospice care and I'm looking for help with anything that would help with gas for myself and children to travel to Erie pa which is 5-6 hours away. I'm all he has as family and he is literally all I have as well and my children. I called local resources and ECT. Nothing

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r/Dying 4d ago

Palliative Wondering if there is any kind of decision making checklist to decide whether to live or to die.

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Emotions aren't stable enough of a basis to make these decisions. Like how to sum up whether you want to go through cancer surgery and treatment when the expected rest of your life is already one incremental loss after another with no realistic expectation of it to be otherwise?


r/Dying 4d ago

Need Support Can’t i just die peacefully

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r/Dying 7d ago

Hospice

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My Aunt is most likely moving to hospice within a few days. I have a small family and she never had kids, so we were all close. She is going to same hospice facility where my dad passed away and I really have no idea how I can even walk in the doors there.


r/Dying 7d ago

Life and death

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I wish death was not so final.


r/Dying 7d ago

Fear of death

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r/Dying 8d ago

disposable account

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I’m think I’m gonna end this Wednesday.
I have a good live, I have a lot of friends out and in the University, I’m pretty and I have a nice body, I have a lovings parents and the money isn’t a problem. In my childhood I get admitted to the hospital every month. I have an immune disorder, and a really weird body, I don’t feel hungry or needs, sometimes I spends days without eating or drinking water, I don’t feel the need to. Because my body it’s weak, when a i was a child the death isn’t a bad thing for me, I think then that feeling born.

I have a nice live, but I don’t have a an ā€œanchorā€ for live it.
My parents thinks I can’t love, I never have that feeling, nothing or someone, just I can’t feel it, but I care.

I went to the psychiatrist for a time, I was in treatment, but I was discharged a few years ago; I’ve never been hospitalized, though I made several attempts most of them in secret.

Just I need someone to read this. My body is failing; I'm paying the price for not taking care of myself.

What am I beyond this? I know I am something more than just this; I must be someone more than just something.


r/Dying 8d ago

Any advice?

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My step mom who is basically my real mom has been slowly dying over the past couple years. She beat cancer 5 times and died briefly during a botched brain surgery. She is still herself but living everyday hurts her. She wants to use the death with dignity act. I have a few months before she said she would do it. I don't want her to hurt anymore, but I also don't want her to die. What do I do? What can I do? I feel so helpless.


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