This ought a be an interesting thread.
Excerpting a blog, bad mouthing the recently deceased, and using Jesus to solve brain chemistry...
You haven’t a clue as to what you’re talking about. Depression is a serious physical and mental illness. The brain is a organ of the body that suffers from many different forms of physical illness. Depression kills. I know. I suffered from it for years until I got help. All the prayer in the world didn’t help.
Who is this Matt Walsh and what are his qualifications as an expert on this matter?
The guys pic on the blog looks like pajama boy.
A guy goes into a 12-step program and has remarkable success (>20 years of sobriety), then thinks he has the compulsion licked.
Starts drinking again and rapidly succumbs to alcohol abuse again and cannot stop this time, regardless of how many times he tries to re-enter the 12-step program.
Hits what is called "the jumping off point", then suicide.
No one seems to be speaking about this end result of alcohol addiction.
So we already have the coroner’s report in our hands? I thought it took a little longer than that.
I see your point and have to wonder to what extent the deep, deep depression people like him have is their irreconcilable beliefs and their contradictory choices. The amount of cognitive dissonance that some of these types of people have must lead to depression. I believe the choices he made, including to take his life, were the cause of his depression. Depression didn’t cause his suicide; he chose suicide over other alternatives including reconciling and humbling himself before God. Even choosing to be a conservative will make a person happier because it’s a sign that you see the world as it is and not as the utopians say it should be. You’re better prepared to deal with the fact that some people are bums if you accept that many of them are choosing to be bums; it’s not a capitalist conspiracy that causes people to want to be a bum.
Just hope you don’t become seriously depressed for whatever reason.
Some people just get sick of living, I don’t understand it.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. ~Matthew 7:1
It’s probable he didn’t have a choice. Mental disease is truly “demons”, “little voices”, a loss of grip. Mental disease doesn’t simply allow for a person to say, “I’ll live the life the Lord meant me to live.” People with eating disorders don’t “choose” to waste away from starvation. They don’t “choose” to purge every time they eat.
I, personally, have never been clinically depressed. But I have been around people who were. It is a horrible disease. They just sit around doing and saying nothing. They are profoundly sad and in a very dark place. I have no idea what that feels like and I’m not going to say that someone in that state has the mental capacity to make a rational choice. Perhaps they are just like someone with a delusional disorder who thinks he can fly and jumps off a building. Perhaps the depressed person committing suicide is making a “choice” just like the delusional person.
So I disagree with what Walsh says here. Suicide is not a rational choice for a lot of people.
It was probably a suicide but you never know. I use to know a retired police chief, he is now deceased, who worked over 50 years as a cop.
He once told me that some suicides are either homicides or accidents but they just don’t know for sure.
It is said R Williams has died, I’ll have to say that Robin Williams was one of my favorite actors because I loved his character in “Good Morning Vietnam” in “Mrs. DoubtFire” in “RV” and so on.
But I really don’t think I or barely anyone else can say they are grieving the real Robin Williams that has just died. The Robin Williams we all think of is probably about as real as the Genie from Alladin.
It seems only those close to the man really knew him.
Here is hoping that God laughs at you, rather than something worse happening to you.
What about Christians who commit suicide? Guess they're burning in Hell, right?
....”Suicide.....The final refusal to see the worth in anything, or the beauty, or the reason, or the point, or the hope. ....The willingness (choice) to saddle your family with the pain and misery and anger that will now plague them for the rest of their lives..... but it is a choice, and we have to remember that”......
In this case, and most, the time involved to plan and carry out the means of evidences ‘more than one choice’ was made to bring it to it’s final climax.
If alcohol or drugs are involved...then choices were made to consume them....the blame isn’t anything but the persons who opts for this end. Reasons are insignificant...the end is always the same...dead.