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Old 10-07-2010, 12:01 PM   #90 (permalink)
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You hate being you. Alternative?
Work on accepting who you are. That's what things like support groups, counseling, and (in some cases) medications are for. But there is no instant gratification in that. Hence my original comment about cowardliness.

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Yes, I see a difference between the guy who puts a shotgun in his mouth and blows his head off in the first try and the teenager who slits her wrists 4 times and dies the last time. Those are two completely different people.
So the teenager would really mean it if only she could get her hands on a shotgun?

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But nobody in your family has, which means you can't use them as a barometer for people who commit suicide.
But I can use them as a barometer for mental illness, and that's behind every suicide.

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I know what you said. Describing suicide as lazy and easy is pretty messed up.
See my first response in this post.

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What "situation" do you imagine these people are in?
The same situation as everyone else who has problems -- probably the same problems thousands of others have, only only their thought process is irrational.
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