RE: Suicide
April 13, 2012 at 1:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2012 at 1:35 am by Shell B.)
(April 13, 2012 at 1:26 am)Faith No More Wrote: You're missing his point though. People don't ask questions like this to gain information, nor are they meant to be threats.
I'm not missing his point. I'm failing to realize why he thinks that every mention of the s word should set off alarm bells.
Quote:They can be thinly veiled efforts to see if someone, anyone out there will listen. Saying one should gain sympathy through conversation is assuming that anyone considering suicide is thinking rationally, which most of the time they are not. Sometimes people contemplating suicide just want to know someone is listening.
Yes, but a person ready to actually commit suicide is not talking, they are doing. It is a sad fact. Yes, a person can be talked into or out of it, but the behavior in this thread by no means suggested the op should commit suicide, so there is no blame to place. Yet . . . someone's placing blame for something we don't even know is a concern.
Not to mention the fact that it was his point. He stated clearly that he "knew someone" who was looking for suicide options online precisely like this.
P.S. I did say I was listening and posted information on anonymous people who can listen. What else are we supposed to do?
(April 13, 2012 at 1:26 am)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: The point was not the dog itself, it was the knowledge that it, which I love, would likely be lonely and afraid if I was to die for any reason. I thought that was fairly obvious. For your information, I'm now on medication and classified as clinically depressed despite your ignorant claims to the contrary, so stfu.
Bully for you. You should know what it is like then. I'm happy that in your version of clinically depressed, caring for a dog is possible.
Quote: Assuming of course that you actually were serious when posting.
Serious about what? He didn't say he was going to commit suicide. Are we reading the same damn OP?