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- M0NEYCIDE0
that's happened to me twice. sort of friends i had really cool intense friendships with then a year or two later they killed themselves. i can see that in people now and how to be that sort of person's friend. also a girlfriend's brother committed a murder suicide after a divorce, was not a happy time.
- shellie0
shit, blaw. that was fucking heavy. I hope you're okay. srsly.
Mr Dink -- I'm sorry to hear about that. In the grand scheme of things, this life is a very short part of the rest of eternity -- if you believe that. I do, and it's given me some peace when I've lost people I love(d). Energy in motion keeps moving forward or something to that effect. She launched herself into the next whatever. Maybe it's better. I don't know how youre really feeling about it, but my best friend's good friend just died of the same cancer he had and my friend is tripping right now. They were the same age. He went into remission and his friend didnt. I told him he's probably chillin in the big summer disco party in the sky doing keg stands with Jesus, Paul and Mary, and my friend felt a little better. The point is... I'm sure she has what she really wanted now -- whatever that was/is. Whatever people believe is right or wrong doesn't matter. People have the right to live and die the way they want within reason (like not killing a bunch of people -- but there's not much stopping people from doing that, either). She did exactly that -- lived and died the way she wanted. It's just a shame she left a wake of people hurting with what she did. But, it's also amazing how life goes on. It does go on as well as the people she touched.
- canuck0
my sympathy to both of you fellas, especially blaw.
- _salisae_0
:(
- ********0
this kid in my high school killed himself right at the time i was always thinking about it, i always think about him(ron) and it always makes me so sad to think that if he would have just hung out for a little longer life would have gotten better, at least it did for me. I barely remember the times before then, most everything great in my life has happened since that time.
I also think of things like this when i'm rude to someone, i always wonder if i'm contributing to something big and crappy in their lives.
- blaw0
to what jaline said, it seemed weird talking with you folks everyday and not mentioning it, but there just wasn't a cool way to bring it up.
i knew you'd be kind, helpful, supportive, just as you are now, and that was enough. though i have to admit, i feel better for having said it/heard it from you.
great folks here. thank you so very much.
- exador10
my heart goes out to you guys..D and Blaw, and everyone else that's ever had to deal with something like this..
one of my best friends in highschool hung himself from a tree in his backyard when we were about 17 yrs old...
he was the drummer in a little garage band we had going..i was on guitar and vocals..it came right of the blue...no one saw it coming...
years later i figured that the reason 'may' have been him possibly being gay and not able to deal with it...
not that he ever came out or anything, but i really think thats what it was...
and at the time (mid-80s) in a small town where all your friends are heavy-metal listening dudes that say fag-this and dyke that..well...no wwonder he never felt he could tell any of us....
his family was VERY catholic as well..so no doubt he couldn't tell them either..at any rate, it affected me for a long long time...
life does indeed go on, but man...it takes a long while to understand or come to terms with....
ex
- Chief0
it's tough. june 31st will be five years since one of my best friends hung himself. the night before we had gone to a concert then back to my brother's house to drink/hang out. five minutes after we'd arrived he said he was tired and that he'd see me in the morning as we were planning on going rock climbing early. the next morning i got a phone call from his older brother who had found him in the attic. really fucked my shit up. having to talk to his mom, telling everyone that he was fine the night before. reliving every single minute trying to figure out how i couldn't see it coming.
then it happened again over this past mother's day weekend. another friend who knew the first.... unreal.
- Complexfruit0
It's tearing me up reading everyone's stories. My condolences and best wishes to everyone touched by such a tragic event.
- AndyRoss0
My goodness, I've known a lot of suicides over the years. School friends of mine; friends of my parents; neighbors; relatives of mine.
It's always a shock. It's always incredibly sad. Fucking horrible to think about. But you can't really control other people, can you?
- MrD0
sigh......
- joyride0
so sorry D... I can't even imagine going through that, I would be a blubbering fool.
Take care
- walkman0
yes - take care everybody. hang on to that little bit of joy in a dark time, because that tiny brightness can, and usually does, become something more.
peace.
- ender790
man, there's not much more i can add to this that others haven't already said. i'm truly sorry for your respective losses. this has been a really difficult thread to read. i've never known anyone who has committed suicide, and i can't imagine the pain that those left behind experience.
you guys will be in my thoughts and prayers.
- arthur0
Next week marks 15 years since my dad took his life.
I was 18, it was devastating. I wish I had known him better. I wish he was here now that I'm a dad.
- ********0
terrible. really sad.
it's mostly sad for the ones surviving, so to speak.people often forget that sometimes ones pains/sorrows/addictions/nightma... are incurable and that for the person there's really no option, it's either hell or nothing. nothing (death) can become a lot more appealing after a good while.
anyway,i know this from experience.
so it may be or may not be comfortable knowing this..
tis hard to talk about eh?
- OSFA0
It is incredible how many people have been affected by this. Horrible. I am sorry and my thoughts are with you and your loved ones.
Even with you MrD.
- 23kon0
Really sad stories :(
In Edinburgh over the past 3 days there has been 2 suicide attempts from Waverley Bridge
(mad to be so close as usually its maybe about 1 per year - if that!)
on both occasions the police stopped pedestrians and traffic from going over/under the bridge and sent officers/ambulances to try talk the person down. (neither jumped btw).
the crazy thing about it was that everyone was just standing watching as if wanting the person to jump. the public were behind police lines all with their mobile phone cameraspoised and ready to get a pic of the person jumping. sick!
some folk were even shouting "jump!":S
- Jaline0
some folk were even shouting "jump!"
:S
23kon
(Jun 8 07, 05:10)wtf
- OBBTKN0
Years a go, my mother going the way the home where she works (taking care of a older depressed woman) encountered the body of the dead woman who just have jumped from the window.
Sad for all of you ;)) Personally not lived this situation...