Suicide - what a nice example to set for your kids.
I have experience with this. After the initial grief comes anger. How could you do this selfish thing to those who love you? It bothers me still.
If one doesn’t understand, or has not seen or experienced depression, then all bets are off.
As a Robin Williams fan, I must say...He has a point.
In California cruising South along the Pacific Coast Highway and a hard right turn of the wheel in a deserted stretch of the road and gravity will take care of the situation when your vehicle impacts the ground at the bottom of the cliffs. This would stop a lot of the drama associated with offing yourself and spare your family a good deal of grief.
He's a down to earth guy, very opinionated like me, and I can't disagree with him about this.
This is coming from a guy who has dealt with a lifetime of severe depression, and came damn close to suicide a few years ago. Scared myself so bad I doubt it's going to happen.
” . . . a spoken word artist . . . “
Huh?
I agree with him. Suicide is the cowards way out and a decision made at one point in time that can’t be undone.
Hey henry
How about being involved with the murder of Dennis Cole’s son?
Shut up henry
“I think as soon as you have children, you waive your right to take your own life,”
I agree...but there are other DUMB THINGS that people should also consider giving up, particularly if they have young kids, like skydiving, cliff-climbing, going to the top of Everest, etc. If you want to do that stuff, do it before they’re born, or after they’re adults - but do what you can to try to stick around while they grow up.
Also if you have parents that are in your life. I think that if more kids were told what a suicide does to siblings and parents, we might see those numbers go way, way, down. As things stand now, we simply IGNORE educating kids on this, and hope it doesn’t happen.
...and another thing. If depressed people on the fence about suicide read all the great accolades that Robin Williams gets they may well think that they will get the something similar if they go over to the other side too.
Another reason the reaction should be that Robin Williams was a great actor/comedian, but...
I suggest that there are 10s of thousands of people out there with what is called ‘clinical depression’ (I hate these terms....one year they’re in the next it is considered incorrect to use them).....and that these folks cannot go to get themselves some professional help because they would risk being blacklisted from such constitutional guarantees as GUN OWNERSHIP.
I do not lump guys like Robin Williams in this category as I am sure he does not believe in that individual constitutional right.
perhaps if he had set himself up without pants and surrounded by porn, he would have been classed with David Carradine as doing an autoerotic strangulation thing and not have been considered a suicide. just a sick thought.
For a while our small town was getting a reputation for teens committing suicide. Part of the problem was that when the first two did it they were memorialized in an over the top way and it seemed to glamorize the act.
Can you say, “publicity stunt?” I knew you could.
Poor Henry.
Henry, suicide is by definition almost never a rational, let alone malicious, choice. While we’re on the subject, you lecturing Robin on rational? Pure comedy.
There is often a revenge aspect to suicide.
It makes no sense but it’s true.