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>>14616452
The main 3 things that hold people who have reached this stage back from committing suicide are as follows:

1.) Access to a guaranteed/instant/painless/etc form of suicide. All suicide methods have a chance to fail, will inflict some sort of pain, and will most likely not be instant. The best method I've found is high power firearm shot into the mouth (double-barreled shotgun for example). However even this is not guaranteed to kill you, and may leave you a brain damaged cripple, thus not executing you and leaving you in a far worse form of suffering.

2.) No one knows what lies beyond this existence. Considering all the factors as play, suicide is very probable to be the answer, as all other answers would logically line up with more suffering. I.E. Religions will tell you that the reason this life is filled with evil and suffering is because it is a test to get into "heaven". However if a creator truly cared if we got into "heaven" it merely would have sent us there to begin with, or not created us at all to spare us not only the guarantee of suffering, but also spare us in the knowledge that many of us would not survive the trials and be doomed to more suffering. In fact it could be surmised that this creator being is dependent on the suffering of beings, or at least certain beings, so that if one does not kill themselves and instead endures all of life's suffering, then they will instead be "promoted" to even more suffering in the "afterlife" because this life was a test, a test to make sure you will not choose self-annihilation in the face of great suffering. Thus those who do not kill themselves actually go to hell instead of the other way around. However even this cannot be ascertained because no one knows for certain what lies beyond this life, or even if this life is truly as it seems. All that can be said is that the gaurantee and experience of suffering is real enough that it can be considered "As good as real", for it does not matter if you are being electrocuted or merely have the exact sensation of being electrocuted, it is still negative.

3.) The suicidal person will feel responsible for the suffering of those they leave behind when they kill themselves. This is more a matter of social condition and inherent brain psychology rather than a matter-of-fact reality. As in if those who suffered after the suicide did not want to suffer, they could also kill themselves.