Facebook message saves suicidal boy

[Jzolr0708]

Well, I'd totally be thanking that girl, and the police, if I were that boys parents. Gj police!

 

[IsoNeko]

An upbeat story about cooperation in saving a human life? Well fuck me sideways.

Prototype thread OP is right

 

[Captinchunk]

I would be pissed at that girl, I mean I'm trusting you with my suicide note and then you go and rat me out to the cops?

Unless this was just a cry for attention, then he probably got exactly what he wanted.

Sooo much the wrong view on this but at the same time so right haha

 

[nikomas1]

And I do HATE (Forgive my wordings please, but that's how I feel) people like you (not you, but that way of thinking). Compare myself to those that have it even worse you say, tell me, how does that help me?

This is also a subject I feel strongly for, and I know damned well what I am talking about. You can come from a perfectly "normal" family and still have a crappy life. Where you are born doesn't have a thing to do with it, because, wherever you are, there are still happy and sad people, poor and "rich".

Hell, the only reason I didn't commit suicide is because I'm a coward, a huge freaking coward with a fear of death. I've had plenty of reasons to "End it all", one being that I've been bullied since 1st grade, I'm 16 now, 1st ring in gymnasium (Our highschool, of sorts) and life is looking up.

Point is, you can't compare a developed country to a "3rd world" one, since you start life with different settings, possibility's, and, well, to put it in other terms, "You can't expect a peasant to have the life of a king", You have to make the best of what life throws at you. Life threw me some hard bricks filled with depression and bullshit, I'm still alive.

You can compare - it's called empathy. Esepecially now, considering this is the age of information, and you can have all the world's troubles at your fingertips in hundredths of a second.

empathy (noun)
Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.

If you're capable of reading a book, newspaper, or watching the television and understanding what's happening, then you are capable of empathy.

There are people who are genuinely afflicted by depression or other mental illnesses, and there are those that induce or 'fake it' for the sympathy pay-off from their friends and family. The sympathy-seekers are to who I was refering to in my post, because they are in control- sometimes sub-consciously, whereas the former have no control over their affliction.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/games/poor_me_game.htm

Life is degrees of suffering, with very rare moments of given or 'free' happiness. Your fear of death is something I share (the affliction I mentioned at the end of my 1st post), but I use it to motivate me to get the utmost out of every waking moment, even if it's a bad day.

EDIT: Also Sympathy-Seekers make it hard to distinguish between the two.

And I had 2 really good mates who suicided, and they there was no indication that both had been dealing with depression, both hid it exceptionally well until they killed themselves.

Didn't I already state that I know all about this? Well then, it's time to counter.

I know what empathy is, and I know that I lack a great deal of it, and I like it this way, makes me not think about stuff that needs no thought.

Secondly, I know all about depression, and extreme sadness. I have a problem with it, I can instantly go from happy to depressed over trivial things such as, I brought my 360 from my dads home to my mums over vacation, with my new copy of RE5, I forgot both my controllers, no co-op fun for me and me friend. I'm not saying it's the end of the world or anything, and I think it's rather silly, but I know what depression is, and it shouldn't be something like that.

The difference between a guy who wants attention and someone who is really depressed is that the former makes it know, the latter is just, well, depressed. I'm the latter.

I still think empathy is something useless, Jonas (My bully for many, many years) better hope I never get a hold of a gun and his new address, not joking...

 

[JWAN]

An upbeat story about cooperation in saving a human life? Well fuck me sideways.

mustache on or off?

+1 brownie points for whoever gets that reference
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I am surprised it made it to the press, for a second their I thought it was going to be morphed into a destructive statement about the interwebz

 

[Captinchunk]

An upbeat story about cooperation in saving a human life? Well fuck me sideways.

mustache on or off?

+1 brownie points for whoever gets that reference
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I am surprised it made it to the press, for a second their I thought it was going to be morphed into a destructive statement about the interwebz

Not got a clue on the ref booooot
I thought it was gunna be some depressing story but its (kinda) happy

I do despise people who are "depressed" and go on and on and on about it clearly for attention. As someone has said when your depressed you won't talk about how your feeling, hell i'd be shocked if you talked to anyone i sure as hell didn't.
I have no problem with people that are depressed or upset for whatever reason i just don't want people whining like little bitches how much their life sucks when its quite clear they have it better than most others. That shit annoys me.

Now ffs someone get me a beer XD

 

[Deguasser]

This is just sort of a dumb thing to do. If you're going to kill yourself you don't tell anyone unless your planning for them to save you. LOL

 

[nohorsetown]

Hmm, I dunno how I feel about this. I'm glad that when I obsessed about suicide, "back in the day", no-one called the cops. I would have had a lot of awful rehab shit and nasty publicity to deal with. It might have made me actually do it. It's important to have good non-overseas friends, I guess. Get by with a little help from 'em, and all that.

Still, good on her for (probably) doing the right thing.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

That is why Facebook is useful!

Aside from being poked every five minutes by your dad who has nothing to do with life apart from work and the internet.

 

[heaventorn]

mustache on or off?

+1 brownie points for whoever gets that reference
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I am surprised it made it to the press, for a second their I thought it was going to be morphed into a destructive statement about the interwebz

I registered just to say SeaLab 2021.

 

[manicfoot]

And I do HATE (Forgive my wordings please, but that's how I feel) people like you (not you, but that way of thinking). Compare myself to those that have it even worse you say, tell me, how does that help me?

This is also a subject I feel strongly for, and I know damned well what I am talking about. You can come from a perfectly "normal" family and still have a crappy life. Where you are born doesn't have a thing to do with it, because, wherever you are, there are still happy and sad people, poor and "rich".

Hell, the only reason I didn't commit suicide is because I'm a coward, a huge freaking coward with a fear of death. I've had plenty of reasons to "End it all", one being that I've been bullied since 1st grade, I'm 16 now, 1st ring in gymnasium (Our highschool, of sorts) and life is looking up.

Point is, you can't compare a developed country to a "3rd world" one, since you start life with different settings, possibility's, and, well, to put it in other terms, "You can't expect a peasant to have the life of a king", You have to make the best of what life throws at you. Life threw me some hard bricks filled with depression and bullshit, I'm still alive.

You can compare - it's called empathy. Esepecially now, considering this is the age of information, and you can have all the world's troubles at your fingertips in hundredths of a second.

empathy (noun)
Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.

If you're capable of reading a book, newspaper, or watching the television and understanding what's happening, then you are capable of empathy.

There are people who are genuinely afflicted by depression or other mental illnesses, and there are those that induce or 'fake it' for the sympathy pay-off from their friends and family. The sympathy-seekers are to who I was refering to in my post, because they are in control- sometimes sub-consciously, whereas the former have no control over their affliction.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/games/poor_me_game.htm

Life is degrees of suffering, with very rare moments of given or 'free' happiness. Your fear of death is something I share (the affliction I mentioned at the end of my 1st post), but I use it to motivate me to get the utmost out of every waking moment, even if it's a bad day.

EDIT: Also Sympathy-Seekers make it hard to distinguish between the two.

And I had 2 really good mates who suicided, and they there was no indication that both had been dealing with depression, both hid it exceptionally well until they killed themselves.

Empathy and depression can be linked. I'm an example of this. If I think about all the people in the world with no food, all the orphans who's parents were killed in a war, I get depressed BECAUSE I feel bad for them. Last year I attended the funeral of my aunt. I had only met her a few times in my life, and I bawled my eyes out in the church out of empathy for those who did know her. I was depressed for days after as well.
Depression is different for everyone and no universal rule can be applied to it. What you say may work for you and other people with logical minds, but it won't work for everyone because depression can be a very illogical thing.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

OD on drugs fails often, my friend tried to OD herself and failed. Since I hate pain I'd go for the 'running a car till you get carbon monoxide poisoning' approach if I was gonna kill myself.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

If I was going to kill myself, I wouldn't tell anyone beforehand, but that's just me.

There's always 1 person you have to say goodbye to. One person you have to tell. - Then again wouldn't someone that special be enough for you to keep going on? It is currently for me...

 

[khululy]

You know how to fix depression, and most problems people think they have?

Sex.

They will quit their bitchin' asap.

yeah... but going to a prostitute isn't a thing to be happy about and since most people don't find depressed people atractive there is only pity sex left.
and that's only a confirmation of one's misery.

 

[Radelaide]

I get sick and tired of hearing about all these "poor teenagers", living in developed nations where the hardest thing that they have to endure up with is the kids teasing them at school, or their parents' divorce, or their girlfriend/boyfriend dumps them...

You get sick of it, but were you ever mercilessly teased at school? I was. About my name (My name is Adelaide. It's a capital city in Australia), about my dad's death, about my freckles. Believe me, you get pretty depressed after hearing "Your dad killed himself 'cause you're so ugly, Sydney!" I wouldn't write them off just yet.

 

[Beefcakes]

Too bad he facebooked instead of 4channed. Then he'd be dead for sure, and we'd have one less suicidal to watch out for.

Yes I'm, a callous jerk, but suicide is one of those things I have very strong opinions about. It's every person's right to end their life when and how they choose, so I don't see it as our place to "save" such people. Some people just can't hack it in real life, and we shouldn't force life on them. And when we live in a world where natural selection doesn't exist, medicine is promoting longer lifespans and higher birth survival rates, we face a very real problem of overpopulation... So if someone wants to quit the game, I'll neither help nor hinder them, it's their choice to make.

While I strongly disagree to a point, I found this to be very truthful, and raises an interesting point. This is something I might have to look into / something I might have to mull over...

But, the be all and end all of it is, suicide is illegal. It gets reported to police, police have to stop it. Thats the way it stays until it gets changed.
Just realised the inanity of the last sentence...

But overall, its nice to hear a happy and nice feel-good story about something, instead of the usual depressing thread being posted now-a-days.
Me want meself a-more o' these.

 

[Unknower]

But, the be all and end all of it is, suicide is illegal.

And the punishment is death sentence!

 

[EeveeElectro]

If I was going to kill myself, I wouldn't tell anyone beforehand, but that's just me.

There's always 1 person you have to say goodbye to. One person you have to tell. - Then again wouldn't someone that special be enough for you to keep going on? It is currently for me...

Very true indeed.
If I was going to top myself, I'd probably ring my boyfriend beforehand, but he'd talk me out of it.
Anyway, I can't let my nieces and nephews grow up without an auntie, I've got too much to live for

 

[JWAN]

mustache on or off?

+1 brownie points for whoever gets that reference
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I am surprised it made it to the press, for a second their I thought it was going to be morphed into a destructive statement about the interwebz

I registered just to say SeaLab 2021.

I am genuinely fucking impressed
welcome to the forums!

its good to hear positive news

 

[new_age_reject]

I'm sorry but if he was actually gonna kill himself then he would have done it.
Just an attention whore. Move on.