@Echomoon I know you obviously haven't left, because it's a year later, but in case you ever decide to do this, don't. If things are overwhelming, talk to your parents. If you can't, you always have us. And if for some reason we're not enough (🤣), then live with a friend, or another family member. You will always have us, and we will always help you through it. And if you ever leave, well... 😫. That emoji says it all.

I may not know you that well, Echomoon, bu I do know a LOT of my friends are depressed/suicidal. Nothing I say to them helps and nothing anyone will say to you will most likely help. You do have to choose to help yourself. If you choose not to...then I don’t blame you. But I think all of us woul please like you to consider your actions another time.

Your not committing any sin or anything by being attracted to your own gender. I, myself, am bisexual. I feel absolutely nothing wrong with it and my family and friends are fully supposrtive of me. I understand that other people are less fortunate then me and have close ones who discriminate strongly against their feelings.

If you do happen to change your mind about life at the moment...I would at least ask for you to never (and I mean NEVER) hate yourself for having crushes on other genders, other ages, or anything of that matter. In fact I think there’s only one person in my four person friend group who actually straight .

;-;

Anyways. I know that there’s no person here who can change your mind but the least any of us can ask for is if you could please reconsider your decisions for something less...self destructive.

please.

Echomoon, I know I don't know you that well, but please. Please don't leave. Just reading that made me want to cry, okay?? Everyone will miss you too much. God is here for you, and He will use this. I promise you. He used my pain to turn me into someone greater. "But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high." Psalm 3:3 "Why,my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will praise him, my Savior and God." Psalm 42:11 Please Echomoon. Everyone here loves you. Please stay with us.

do not go into that gentle night, rage rage against the dying of the light.

Echomoon people care and you can't change that. If we care how much more does God care?! You are his beloved daughter and you are a treasure. We all love you, you are our sister in Christ. One big herd, Family: Then Star knew, family was not just who made you it was who loved you who raised you who believed in you and who filed you with hope. I know that I live it and if you die then you will throw all that away. Please don't.

Emi, when I read this I cried. And if Jonathan was about to cry think about that. If I was crying, just as I am now, think of what would happen if you were dead. My heart will shatter completely if you do this. No matter how many times you say its a mistake to care for you, it won't be. No matter how many times you say I shouldn't care, I will keep caring. You are my friend. So please please don't freaking kill yourself.

Fyi, Jonathan read this to me on vid chat, and he was so upset he said he was feeling numb the first time he read it. And there was a defined catch in his voice. Just thought I’d let you know, Em Em.

Most of all

Did Echomoon, No!

No, No, No, No, No, No, No and No!!!! So, please dont give up Echomoon, please,

Your friend, Iceflower

Have you seen the movie Remember the titans? Did they quit?

Did Walt Disney?

Did Jack Ma?

Good lord, I hate this. I don't want to leave you all, but at the same time I want to leave everything. I don't want be mean, yet part of me wants to scream at you all why it's such a mistake to care for me.

Don't want to hurt you, yet I keep going and going and going, causing pain and destruction and leaving guilt and fear in my wake.

For one last final time: Good. Bye. I'll see you all in Heaven. or Hell.

Too late. I've made up my mind. I'm going to do the deed, someway or other. Don't try to talk me out of it. Please don't.

When I first read this my mom asked me if I was okay. PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP! You caused nothing but happiness for all of us. ZERO PROBLEMS WERE CAUSED BY YOU. Please dont do it, you havent annoyed me at all, infact I havent noticed you annoying anyone. We are ALL HERE FOR A REASON! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. I once thought of being done with everything, ONCE. I felt like no one got me, not even my best friend, parents, etc. But, I decided to read and pray and look at everything with a positive mood, like I had used to do once. I felt better then ever after that, so........ DONT GIVE UP, EVERYONE LOVES YOU, PLEASE DONT DO THIS, YOU HAVE MORE INSTORE THAN YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD, PLEASE RELIZE THAT. WE LOVE YOU.

""When life gives you a hundred or thousand reasons to break down and cry, life also gives you a million reasons to smile. STAY STRONG."" - Unknown

FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME, WWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEE LLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE YYYYYYOOOOOUUUUU.................................

& DONT YOU DARE GIVE UP!

I'm not entirely sure what too say, so I guess I'll say this.

DO. NOT. GIVE. UP. If you give up, you let the darkness win. And you have a light inside you, and don't you dare tell me that you don't. You do. I see it every time you post something.

You have a beautiful spirit and you're an amazing girl.

I know God hasn't answered your prayers, but if you don't believe anything else I say at least believe this: IT ALWAYS GETS BETTER! I promise you. I PROMISE you-it gets better. Please please please PLEASE remember that.

You don't deserve to go to hell. Please know that too, I don't care what you think or what you say, we all agree that YOU DONT DESERVE TO THINK ABOUT YOURSELF LIKE THIS!!!!! You have done too many amazing and good things! You deserve Heaven.

Nothing was your fault. None of it was. The only thing at fault was when sin and darkness entered the world. Don't bales yourself, because it's not you're fault.

I'm going to worry about you, Echo. Because you're my friend. I'm going to support you and love you because you're my friend. I'm never going to give up and/or leave you, because your my friend. I'm going to tell you to never give up and to I'm going to encourage you, because you're my friend and I love you. And whether I've met you or not, I love you because you're my friend.

I know I can't stop you from leaving, so I won't. But, please, don't kill yourself to stop the pain. It won't work. You're pain will live on in all those you left behind. Please, it won't help. It's not worth it. You're life is too precious.

You're not darkness. You're light.

I am going to say one last thing:

Your wings already exist-they always have. Now, all you have to do is spread them wide and fly.

I love you girl. And I'll miss you. We all will.

-

With so much love-

Riverbreeze

Don't you dare Emily. You mean to much to everyone. If you do this imagine what will happen to everyone! To me, to J, to Wispi, to Skye, to Dragon, to Nightmist, to your family, to everyone. You can't take away something that is so precious simply for something so temporary.

I know better than anyone that things get better. You think I'd be alive if thins didn't get better? I promise you if you keep trusting God you'll feel better. Trust in Him.

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and sound judgment. "

2 Timothy 1:7 He is there, you know that.

Nothing is worse than Hell. You don't want to go there. Why do you think God sends murderers, and rapists, and terrible people there in the beginning? I learned to trust in Him, you need to as well.

I hope you know I am praying for you, my family is, my church is, my friends are. People who have never met you care for you. Don't make a forever decision based on a temporary situation. It gets better.

I love you girly.

Gracie

Emily. Jessica. Reid. I have ONE thing to say to you. Go look at my most recent post on Wattpad in Short Stories. Please.

ECHOMOON PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I DONT THINK I CAN LIVE WITHOUT YOU. EVERY TIME IVE MADE A POST ABOUT SOMETHING PERSONAL, YOUVE BEEN THE FIRST OR ONLY ONE TO REASURE ME. YOU HAVE SUCH AN IMPACT ON ME. I LITERALLY DONT THINK I WOULD BE WHO I AM TODAY. PLEASE MOVE TO ILLINIOS, LIVE WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT LIVE KNOWING THAT YOU LEFT AND THAT I COULVE DONE SOMETHING. YOU WERE THE FIRST ONE TO WELCOME ME. THE FIRST ONE I EVER REALLY HAD A CONNECTION WITH ON THE MB. YOUR THE REASON IM STILL HERE. I WAS THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE AND THEN I READ YOUR POST. YOU WERE SO INSPIRATIONAL AND SO STRONG!!!!!!!!! DONT YOU DARE LET THAT END NOW. I WILL NOT STOP AND I WILL NOT BEGGING AND NAGGING AND YELLING UNTILL YOU REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE LIKE A SISTER TO ME EVEN IF YOU DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT ME! I LOVE YOU AND I ALWAYS WILL. YOUR GONNA DIE. THAT MEANS I AM TOO.

Goodbye world it was nice to know you.

-Starleaf

-Star

-Starry

-Lizzie

Echomoon,

I know I am new and no one really knows me but I actually care. I might say somethings you might not want to hear but I really understand.

Echomoon, You have shared your problems with us that means you are really brave. We are a herd that means that we help you and when you can't fly it is our job to support you. I know there is nothing I can say to make you change your mind and I am not going to try, But I don't want you dead.

Will dying fix your problems? I believe that even living is better then going to hell. You know I almost did it. I just wanted to give up. I thought that God, the creator of the universe made a mistake, the bible says he is and was perfect but I thought that I was the one mistake.

Believing does not mean that you can see what or who you believe in. It means trusting.

Ten months ago I fell down and broke my arm in the middle of the street walking my dog, It was a miracle I did not get hit by a car, after being on the ground for about 5 minutes I had been calling for help and 2 kind neighbors came and helped me. I am still in so much pain nothing is working. I mean how do you believe in a God who will let his daughter get into that much pain and then not heal her. But I believe that he let it happen to help me understand that Believing in him does not mean that I will me magically healed the minute I want to be.

I am sorry you are feeling like this. Please think about what you are going to do before you do it.

Nightsong, (A friend who cares)

NONE of ANYTHING is your fault, Emily. Was it your fault 9/11 happened? No. Was it your fault World War 2 was so tragic? No. Was it your fault that anything remotely terrifying, that possibly you have never even heard of, your fault? No. You just think it is, because it’s what the devil tells you.

I’m not saying you need to stay, because I respect your decision to leave, but I want to give you something that will perhaps help.

Over the past phew months, I’ve had increasing paranoia and depression because of my fear of age and things changing. Other thing too, but I won’t talk about those “other things,”. So, as expected, I go to someone I trust very much when it gets to become too much; My Mother. There’s always two key things she tells me:

1. I know it feels like God may not be real, but who are you gonna believe? A bunch of your stupid classmates who have failed even the simplest math test, or your parents and your family?

2. Thoughts and emotions are like a horse. You know, you can pull it one way and it goes that way. So, whenever I feel sad or think terrible thoughts that aren’t even about ME, I stop, take deep breath, and kick that horse’s iron belly and force it to go the other way. Recently, this has actually been helping out a lot.

Bonus 3. Make a list, everyday, of everything you are grateful for. When she first told me this, our newest and beautiful cat was laying in my lap, purring. She had been the original cause of my concern, because she had a bald patch upon her left temple right below her ear, and there was a blood clod. But anyways, my mom asked me to say with her what I was grateful for in that very moment. And I said this little kitty who loves me (even though she’s a WITCH and probably doesn’t think very nicely of me either) and is keeping me warm. And it actually made me happy.

Don’t expect you to read through all of this, because most people think whatever I have to say about feelings is trash, but I promise you, if at least read through the second one, it may help. (The second one‘s my favorite because it involves horses.)

I hope you know that we love you, Echomoon, and I’ve dreaded the entire time righting another goodbye comment, but I truly respect your decision in leaving. And it is not a sin for liking who you like! Mind you, I know a couple who is very close to me that are getting married very soon who are like you! I still love them! And God loves them too.

I wish you well across the Dark Waters or through Anok, or wherever you may be going.

Your Friend,

Nightmist (Sorry, don’t feel comfortable putting my full name on here xd)