Posted on 06/10/2018 6:27:49 AM PDT by savedbygrace
Suicide is in the news lately. Many people have been committing suicide in recent years.
We are told the way to reduce that trend is to get in touch with people who isolate themselves.
That can help, but most people won't do it for a simple reason: they don't know what to say and even if they did, most people do not not to confront someone about a serious problem.
I think it might help some to know what they can say that is not a confrontation, so I offer this method that I will be trying to do more often:
Observe the people I know specifically looking for good reasons to sincerely compliment them, to give them a fine reputation to live up to. To give them sincere reasons to see themselves in a more positive light.
A lot of people who commit suicide leave notes that say nobody cares about them, and that they think they're worthless.
I want to demonstrate to people that's not true.
Many of them are exactly what you describe, but I would not agree they are “almost certainly” that.
People who have decided suicide is the only way oftentimes will do it in ways and locations they are least likely to be interrupted or rescued.
In response to some others in this thread, I never said my plan would stop all, or even most, suicides.
Since almost all of the recent spate of suicides have been of left-leaners, why try to reduce them?
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