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re: Do you know someone who committed suicide?
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:01 am to OKellsBells
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:01 am to OKellsBells
I, unfortunately, have known at least 12 (I stopped keeping track). Varying degrees of friendship. Two I considered really good friends, another was my best friends dad while we were in high school, another was my sisters boyfriend.
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Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:04 am to tigerpimpbot
It was a shock but not unbelievable. She suffered from depression but I think she was bipolar. I was still in school and tried hard to manage her estate as well.
Sometimes I call it cowardly because it left us with a huge unnecessary burden but she was hurting and we couldn't help her no matter what we tried.
Sometimes I call it cowardly because it left us with a huge unnecessary burden but she was hurting and we couldn't help her no matter what we tried.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:06 am to LucasP
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Agree to disagree. But yeah I've lost a pretty good friend to it. Sucks, doesn't get better, and always think about how it could have been different.
Don't beat yourself over it.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:07 am to Yat27
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The brother is one thing, but his own father? You would imagine that he deeply regrets his actions, but he pretty much did the opposite of a father's first duty... To protect his children.
Yeah, I still don't understand it. In high school, I heard his dad was a dick, but I guess you don't think about what could potentially happen at that age.
Maybe his dad thought he was toughing him up, but it obviously didn't work. Like I said, he was legit a good-natured kid too, which made it worse when I learned what happened.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:10 am to OKellsBells
My best friend since 3rd grade did it last year.
Never know what demons someone is facing
Never know what demons someone is facing
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:11 am to OKellsBells
My dad always talked about suicide.
Considering he was an abusive prick, if he did it, I wouldn't have shed a tear.
He threw my mom like a rag doll, and put me in the hospital with a fractured skull at 3 years old.
Considering he was an abusive prick, if he did it, I wouldn't have shed a tear.
He threw my mom like a rag doll, and put me in the hospital with a fractured skull at 3 years old.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:13 am to nvasil1
I think that people sometimes don't want to or can't actually accept that what they say can have real consequences and with our society moving in a less personalized direction, it'll probably only get worse.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:13 am to Kcrad
Well, if you're lucky, maybe he'll kill himself and you'll have something else to fuel your anger.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:17 am to nvasil1
I had a friend whose dad committed suicide and left a note saying basically his son not graduating from college on time was the reason he did it. He was one of those father's where everything was planned out before his kids were born and wanted everything to happen exactly like that.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:19 am to OKellsBells
yeah...
dude i knew hung himself with his belt outside one of my good friends house.... thing was the point at which he attached the belt was actually lower than his neck, so he had to actively hang himself, some kinda way.... i guess if you really want to, you'll figure it out...
dude i knew hung himself with his belt outside one of my good friends house.... thing was the point at which he attached the belt was actually lower than his neck, so he had to actively hang himself, some kinda way.... i guess if you really want to, you'll figure it out...
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:24 am to Kcrad
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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.
Uhh, no.
It's not even the most selfish way to take someone's life.
That would be murder.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:27 am to 805tiger
I think for my dad it was a desperate, selfish, brave moment. I don't think he did it to hurt us.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:28 am to White Roach
WR, he drank himself to death, 4 years ago. He had dementia.
First day I moved in with him he punched me in the face. It didn't hurt, but i told him, he does it again, he's going to the hospital.
I was joking, if I assaulted him, I would go to jail.
First day I moved in with him he punched me in the face. It didn't hurt, but i told him, he does it again, he's going to the hospital.
I was joking, if I assaulted him, I would go to jail.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:29 am to OKellsBells
My 24 year old sister took her life 3 years ago. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. I talked to her all morning that day and she seemed fine. It's my biggest regret in life that I wasn't able to save her or realize how bad she was struggling.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:33 am to Kcrad
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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.
Wait are you seriously saying that suicide is more selfish than actual murder by a human being towards another human being?
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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.
Dude, you have have no idea what someone is feeling like when they're seriously considering killing themselves.
If someone is capable of suicide, their emotional state is obviously at a point where they can overcome the natural self instinct of self-preservation that humans abide by every day of their lives.
That takes a very powerful state of depression and despair or a very strong kind of mental illness for that to happen.
This post was edited on 4/8/17 at 1:34 am
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:35 am to Kcrad
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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.
My grandfather was suffering from one of the worst kinds of cancer that was untreatable at the time and he went out Cobain style. So no I do not find it selfish.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:41 am to HoustonChick86
Sorry HC. I saw my dad the day before it happened. I was starting at LSU that fall. We went over the map of campus and planned out parking and the path to my classes. He had been depressed, but was happy that day. The next morning, a phone call I'll never forget.
This was hardest part for me too, but I have come to terms with who was ultimately responsible.
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It's my biggest regret in life that I wasn't able to save her or realize how bad she was struggling.
This was hardest part for me too, but I have come to terms with who was ultimately responsible.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:42 am to Kcrad
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It is the most selfish thing a human can do.
You're just scared and confused because you don't have the strength to destroy your own conscious forever. I don't have the will to go through with it, but I acknowledge that it takes guts unlike you who brush it off as "selfish'.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:46 am to OKellsBells
Very close female friend. Her husband deliberately planned and finally succeeded in driving her to suicide after 2-3 years of mental torture. Beautiful, sweet, tall, perfect southern belle.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:52 am to OKellsBells
I did not handle it properly. I tried to play it off like every thing was ok and I ended up in the ER with my own suicidal thoughts.
Suicide is just awful all around. I miss my sister every day.
Suicide is just awful all around. I miss my sister every day.
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