Undecided and Indecisive

So, we filmed. We recorded. We got varying shots and angles. We've only done the suicide scene.

Yet our time is up. Based off of my quick editing, that bit alone is one minute and forty-four seconds.

So now I'm conflicted. Do we shorten this to include this rest of the script? Do we just keep this as our opening? If we cut it down, what do we eliminate? 

How do director's do this? I've always watched deleted scenes from movies I loved and lamented the loss of wonderful scenes, criticizing the people who decided it would be a good idea to leave them out. Now, I get it. Not every decision; I can't be swayed that easily. But some of those decisions, I now understand 100 percent.