RE: Suicide
April 13, 2012 at 1:39 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2012 at 1:40 am by Faith No More.)
Shell B Wrote: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.
Sorry Shell, but I was actually talking to Raphiel, not you. Your post inbetween hadn't shown up when I posted so I had to go back and edit his quote into my post to show who I was talking to.
The thing is that suicide is not something that just pops into people's heads making them determined to do it. There are intermediary steps of contemplation which posts like this one can be an indicator of. Sometimes a person is not ready to commit suicide, but they don't feel like they can stop themselves. Therefore they throw out indicators such as this to see if someone will stop them.
I'm not saying that we need to freak out and call the police or anything, but R-e-n-n-a-n-t is raising valid points.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
