How do you know exactly what was troubling him?
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Groom hurls himself into river hours after marriage
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How do you know exactly what was troubling him?
There is help for anything you or anyone has issues with. It really doesn't matter what is troubling him. So many suffer from addictions, poverty, mental illness, depression, bad relationships etc. Instead he chose the easy way out, not a man in my opinion and very selfish.
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maybe found out the kids ARE his.
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Spoken like someone who sounds like they've never dealt with mental illness.
You obviously don't understand the mental effects of depression (or a host of other illnesses) that leave you so crippled you can't even get out of bed. And you obviously don't understand that for someone to come to the decision to end their own life....was probably the hardest thing he's ever done and he felt it was his only way out.
But you're right....he's totally not a man for that.
I've also had family and friends suffer from mental illness. In the one extreme case I witnessed first hand, it's an UGLY existence - constant psychiatric hospital stays, powerful drugs with nasty side effects (I sometimes wonder if the side effects are worse!), therapies that resemble torture (see electroconvulsive therapy). If anyone takes their life because of it, I would understand. I would not call it selfish. From what I've seen, a severe depression existence is tantamount to hell.
I would dare say in some cases, the people being upset/angry (over the long haul I mean - everyone would probably feel angry/upset in the short term) at the ones that committed suicide are the ones that are selfish.
I would dare say in some cases, the people being upset/angry (over the long haul I mean - everyone would probably feel angry/upset in the short term) at the ones that committed suicide are the ones that are selfish.
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Link666: I believe what he was referring to is that when you sign a life insurance contract there is a clause that states that if you commit suicide within a specified period of time, you are not covered. The assumption is that if it happens later, the cause was not a pre-existing condition.
I'm not sure if you're talking about the dad or the kids. Since the dad's been covered, I'll talk about the kids.
There's a sensitive/critical period for kids growing up where all the right switches basically need to be hit for them to develop properly. If the switches don't get hit properly, you can sort of work to fix it/reduce the damage later on but there will always be a significant amount of lost potential. Kids actually tend to deal with death surprisingly well if an adult/mentor learns how to handle it properly.
I can also understand why someone would rather end their life than take some of these anti-depressants. It alleviates symptoms, but a lot of them aren't "them" anymore. It does more than take away the depression and it affects how you think/function/etc.
It's an interesting topic. Please don't lock it
some of the side effects of anti depressants are depressing. also anti depressants don't make you not depressed, they just make you care less about the depression. there is no fix, just treatment to make it hurt less.
What?
Do you mean you don't approve of it? I don't think anyone does (unless maybe its to relieve severe physical pain).
Some people here seem more accepting towards it
I don't think your choice of words is really accurate. I don't see anyone that's very accepting of it, but I do see some who understand it. There's a difference. I don't condone, accept or approve of it but I can understand that people can be in a mental state where they feel there's no way out.
Brushing them off as selfish (especially without knowing that person and what may have pushed them to that state) is quite silly.
At the risk of playing verbal semantics, if you understand, then condoning/accepting/approving is really moot at this point. Like you said, you don't really know why the reasons why a person decides to do what he does.
I think you're trolling now
Ok then I really have no idea what you're talking about. Nevermind.. i guess.
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