Your daily "What the heck are they thinking?" post

[Axispoint]

I think I know what it feels to be suicidal.

Hey, I was a bit curious about something, Archon. I'm not flaming, ok? :-) Anyway, I was just curious why you put "I think". If you don't wish to answer here, that's quite ok.

As for the subject of this thread, I find it strange that people actually have to reference online on how to kill themselves. Are they just drones that need to actually read how to kill themselves because they're too stupid to think something up on their own? You'd think they had never seen the half a dozen movie and tv shows where people kill themselves (the movie "Bringing Out the Dead" is a prime example...they actually in the movie tell a guy how to kill himself the "right way" and somewhat show him how...they don't cut him, but they did that to try and scare him, which worked 'cos the guy got freaked and ran off, lol).

And also, honestly if that girl was serious about killing herself, she would have found other ways to get info on killing herself if that site hadn't existed.

As Sayeth By Lemming:
If they were close, she would've gone to ol' Roger for help; comfort.

I don't exactly agree with that (in some ways I do). There are people who will keep things like that from other people for whatever reason (could be just someone who normally keeps things inside or they just want to spare people the details and pain of what they're going through) and the only way people ever know there's a serious problem is after that person is dead. That could be the case here, it may not, we'll never know. And sometimes you can not go to a loved one about things like suicidal thoughts because the person can't handle it (this is actually my case with my guy...I can't tell him that kind of stuff and I can understand why...would you really want to hear someone you love day in and day out be so depressed that they talk about killing themselves? That is a sure way to learn to keep that kind of thing to yourself, though I doubt that was her case, but again, you never know.).

Also, I do agree that her actions were selfish. Something I recommend to any suicidal person (well, kind of), though it is disturbing, is to think through what happens after you die. Imagining a parent or a lover finding your dead body and their reaction. It really is disturbing to think about that.

Moving back above to something while I remember it now: generally depression is not very easy to hide. So I'm curious if this girl was depressed if anyone, like Roger, her family, or even friends noticed a change in her that indicated depression.

*edited to add something: I think someone who is good at hiding emotions could pull off hiding depression. Don't quote me, though :)