What is WRONG with people here? You're GLAD because someone killed themselves?? [View All]

[lildreamer316]

I know we went through some of this when Fallwell died..I wasn't too comfy with it then either.

Are you all who are glad that a mortgage broker killed his wife and himself, leaving two sons behind, members of the PEACE and LOVE generation??? Boy, I hope not.'Cause if you are, I don't want to hear a thing else out of you about how great you were then. You just ruined it all, right there.

Nice. Why don't we all just become EXACTLY like those we work against - heartless, cold and calculating people on the fundamentalist right, who espouse one thing in person (at church, even) and do another somewhere that they have no face...like a message board.

Way to be like the enemy. We're supposed to be the party that has compassion and empathy.

I know we are angry. I'm livid about the corporatists and the elite eating this country, and some of us, alive. It's beyond my comprehension some days, and I retreat into whatever fantasy land I can conjure until I am ready to face it again. But this is too much. We as a human race did not fight and strive so hard to further our civilization, only to still behave the same way we did even 60 years ago.

It's time to grow up. That means compassion, not cruelty. That means understanding, not obsequiousness. Take some time to reflect, to simplify, to appreciate what you do have, versus what you lack, or what has been taken from you. It is, after all, all you have left. Might as well appreciate it, now, while you can.

If someone whom we do not like is in so much pain OR is so very selfish as to take the extreme action to kill themselves, I would hope we would try to empathize, or at the very least try to NOT JUDGE.

YOU did not live in that person's body and mind. YOU did not walk in their shoes every day from the day they were born. YOU have absolutely no muthafuckin' idea what went on in their childhood, in their home, in their mind. Do you honestly think someone could really understand everything that has made YOU who you are, without actually being you?

Sure, they probably do not deserve your sympathy if they were so selfish as to commit suicide because of some issue like "Oh no! I'm going to be held responsible for those millions I squandered/used for ill/whathaveyou!!I'm going to avoid it using DEATH!!". But you sure as hell don't have to GLOAT about it.

Sometimes the old adage applies: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

This kind of thing does not qualify as constructive criticism or discussion, in my book.

But hey, what the hell do I know? I'm just a gen-Xer with parents born in the depression (NOT the 50s, like all my peers - the 30s!), so I must have no CLUE what the hell I am talking about.:sarcasm:

Don't think outside the box. LOOK outside of it.

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