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Posted on 02/12/2019 1:05:33 PM PST by Borges
Back to suicide...my stepfather-in-law often says , “When you commit suicide, you’re killing the wrong person”. He’s an interesting person. :)
The side effects of SSRI’s can be quite emotionally devastating. And unless you have directly dealt with someone or experienced them yourself you really canmot understand how bad things can get in a persons head. Either your own suicide or someine elses. otoh the guy kept calling her after she broke it off. and he kept bugging her. yes she was a jerk, yes she encouraged him to do it . I think 15 months is enough for her to get some type of realization of what she did.
He got out of the car because he was changing his mind.(machine pumping exhaust into his car) and she told him to get back in....no sympathy...many texts telling him not to be a wimp,do it...a real mess.
I agree. Being a horrible person shouldn't necessarily be a crime.
This story is stupid.
I’ve heard politicians say that other politicians should kill themselves, and I don’t imagine they would ever get charged if the other politician did it.
But seriously, this girl had issues with depression herself, and her “boyfriend” also had a lot of problems, and she did her best to support him, but he kept talking about how miserable he was.
And yes, she didn’t do everything she could to stop him, and she sent him a few texts that supported his choice to kill himself.
But if he had gone to Canada, a medical professional would have killed him, and it would have been perfectly legal.
If we start holding people responsible for how others react to our speech, this can be used by the political class to start jailing their opposition.
How many times have we been told that our speech causes people to commit crimes?
Got it
Bad decision.
Her defense should have been that she convinced him to self-abort.
He kept trying to kill himself, and failing, and then being more depressed than ever. She also suffered depression, and at some point she decided that he really would be happier dead, which was what he said repeatedly, and so she “helped” him, not by physically doing anything (remember the democrats want to make it legal to help people physically commit suicide), but by encouraging him when he was chickening out.
It was a horrible thing, he needed real help. But why does society put the onus on a 17-year-old ex-girlfriend to get a kid help? That kid had done this many times, where were the adults that were responsible for him? Where was his caregiver, his counselor?
Meanwhile, if he didn’t want to kill himself, but instead decided that his problem was being a man, he could have gone to a professional counselor, who would have NO CHOICE but to help him physically mutilate his body.
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Exactly, She was 17, who at 17 can deal with a suicidal ex boyfriend who worships the ground you walk on and keeps calling and pestering you day and night threatening to kill himself. She finally just said 'then go kill yourself and belittled him for not doing it quick enough.. yes she was twisted but...She was on powerful anti depressants altering her thinking.
That’s how I recall it. When someone keeps telling you they are going kill themself repeatedly, at some point even the sanest person is going to get to the point of saying, “Then just do it.”
Thanks man. Likewise.
Ah, in my day I could get women pretty riled up.
They probably had a right to say worse!
I just kinda chuckled when they said it though :)
Yep - this steps over a line we don’t want them to step over.
Finally someone who gets it. Shes young, depressed herself and the kid kept threatening to do it. her other move would have been to tell someone who would listen and file a protective order against the psycho.. None of that would guarantee him being alive today.. Once someone sets their minds to kill themselves its not easy to talk them back to reality.. Suicide is a very selfish, narcissistic mental disorder. you can’t fix narcissism with drugs, you can treat depression but ssri’s need a professional to monitor the person regularly. like once a week. and you need a counseller or shrink it in the mix..
Maybe she could she talk to Schumer and Pelosi?
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