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So when is it permissable to check out?
Self | 03/01/2011 | PhilStone

Posted on 03/01/2011 9:05:12 PM PST by PhilosopherStone1000

So I'm 50. I have a very smart, very beautiful daughter who is a junior in high school.

Every day, I wake up and say to myself "Crap. I'm still alive."

I feel like I've done my job. I have give birth to and raised an extraordinary human being. There's nothing I can do now to advance her career or life.

How much does God expect me to endure? When can I say "I've had enough?" At what point is it rational to jump off that bridge simply because one is tired of putting up with all the crap?


TOPICS: Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: courage; depression; suicideprevention; troll; zot
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To: Revolting cat!

Please read post 215. Many have been where you are now.


241 posted on 03/03/2011 7:03:10 AM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made out of liberals...)
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To: All
For all those who gave a darn and tried to be of help PhilosopherStone1000 decided to make his reappearance here without bothering to check back in to his "suicide" thread.
242 posted on 03/07/2011 7:48:04 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: dila813; webstersII; A_perfect_lady; Calif Conservative; Immerito; smokingfrog; ...

Update to this thread. Apparently this thread was just the OP’s idea of a joke or a way to get attention. See post #242. Just thought you all might like to know he is alive and why he didn’t respond to anyone.


243 posted on 03/07/2011 9:58:42 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye

Thanks for the update. Usually, those that post online usually don’t follow through. Maybe he really was depressed, but I agree he should have checked back in here.


244 posted on 03/07/2011 10:07:28 PM PST by TXConservative25
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

philosophers say the funniest things . change the direction you sleep


245 posted on 03/07/2011 10:08:27 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The great American prostate exam continues.)
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To: Doomonyou

best reply yet


246 posted on 03/07/2011 10:10:08 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The great American prostate exam continues.)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

Back in the day, I was a forensic photographer - you kind of get immune to a lot of ugly things. One day we had to go to this condo - it was my cousin who had climbed into the bathtub with a .38 special and blew out her brains. You need to find someone to talk to...


247 posted on 03/07/2011 10:23:19 PM PST by stormer
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To: TigersEye

Thanks, TigersEye.

The guy’s a real mensch.../s.

Ed


248 posted on 03/07/2011 10:32:54 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: TigersEye

Well, isn’t that just lovely.


249 posted on 03/07/2011 10:42:00 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: TigersEye

but likely harbor’s these feelings, people don’t tend to joke about these things unless there is something there.


250 posted on 03/07/2011 11:26:00 PM PST by dila813
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To: dila813
I don't know why everyone thinks they are the only ones who have ever "been there."
251 posted on 03/07/2011 11:40:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye; PhilosopherStone1000

Thanks for the update TigersEye. I know a lot of people stayed up all night, praying for this jackass. I didn’t, because I’ve already been burned by someone like that. But there were a lot of trusting people who invested their hearts and souls into this, who will be less trusting in the future. He/she hurt a lot of people. (”He” has claimed to be a father, but “she” also claims to have given birth.)


252 posted on 03/07/2011 11:58:28 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: TigersEye

Many thanks for the update. To those of us who have watched a friend in a depressive death spiral the topic is a little touchy. We had a FReeper check out this way some years ago and it looked a lot like this. Don’t want to see that again. Best to you and thanks again.


253 posted on 03/08/2011 12:18:09 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

We are all gonna die soon enough.... stick around and see what happens....


254 posted on 03/08/2011 12:20:43 AM PST by woofie
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To: TigersEye
Well, I guess everyone needs some attention at times. I wonder, do you think he'd get some attention with a boot up his butt? LOL

I have a friend who made the mistake of calling her brother in another state and doing the, "I have no reason to live", BS and hanging up. He called me, at work, after he had called the police. Her one night of felling sorry for herself cost her a few thousand dollars for; ambulance, hospital and doctors. Some good came of it. She's been on the wagon for a year. Like I've all ways said, "Those who can't handle their liquor, should leave it for those of us who can."

255 posted on 03/08/2011 2:40:56 AM PST by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Razz Barry
Like I've all ways said, "Those who can't handle their liquor, should leave it for those of us who can."

And I have done just that since about 1979. Salud! LOL

256 posted on 03/08/2011 2:53:35 AM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye

Yeah, a friend and I figured this out that night based on the fact that an hour before he was yucking it up merrily on another thread.

Just think...if somebody *really* needs help in the future, this jackass just might cost that person their life because FReepers might remember being made sympathetic fools of.

There’s some heavy karma ~I~ wouldn’t want.

I’m surprised he wasn’t ZOTted for this stunt.


257 posted on 03/08/2011 4:04:37 AM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: Salamander

What a jerk! I’ll remember this name.


258 posted on 03/08/2011 5:00:50 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Froggie sez water nice and warm)
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To: TigersEye

No surprise here. Thanks for the update.


259 posted on 03/08/2011 5:15:25 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Salamander

That’s the real harm that was done.


260 posted on 03/08/2011 5:24:13 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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