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After Celebrity Deaths, Suicide Hotline Calls Jump 25%
https://www.wsj.com ^ | 6/10/18 | Lara Korte

Posted on 06/10/2018 1:23:16 PM PDT by BBell

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I will never understand what motivates these kinds of lemmings.
1 posted on 06/10/2018 1:23:16 PM PDT by BBell
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2 posted on 06/10/2018 1:24:17 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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They know nothing of George Washington but they sure have the TV sit-com schedule memorized.


3 posted on 06/10/2018 1:31:50 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Lemmings is right. Hopefully all leftist lemmings.

But I can see at least some rationale to this. If someone as successful and wealthy as this “renowned” (although I’ve never heard of him) chef doesn’t have a reason to keep living, what reason do us common folks have?


4 posted on 06/10/2018 1:32:45 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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Well put.


5 posted on 06/10/2018 1:48:05 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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“Hello, Suicide Prevention Hotline. This is Arnold Judas Rimmer here to ... um ... hello? Hello?”


6 posted on 06/10/2018 1:55:25 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Suicide doesn’t end the pain, it passes it on to those who love you.

These celebrity cowards that are killing themselves and abandoning their young children and others also set an example to all the nobodies out there having a tough time in life at the moment. Many more will kill themselves because of them. No one will know who they were.


7 posted on 06/10/2018 1:55:39 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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Next “celebtard” death is Jim Carrey or the ugly red head that held a fake head of Trump.


8 posted on 06/10/2018 1:56:06 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progressives, or Democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!)
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Most celebrities are self absorbed assholes. They are not something people should look up to and obsess over.


9 posted on 06/10/2018 1:56:26 PM PDT by Trillian
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“You’ve called the Suicide Hotline.....Your call is very important to us....your call will be answered in.........57 minutes....”


10 posted on 06/10/2018 1:57:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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People often feel connected to celebrities

Not people I associate with but then I'm a bit more discerning.

11 posted on 06/10/2018 1:59:00 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Music for while they wait: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9grE_VaPcAw


12 posted on 06/10/2018 2:06:31 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I remember when I was young we were asked who our heroes were. Most of the kids responded with some celebrity or sports individual. I could not think of anyone at the time so I did not respond.

Even as kids the media subtly teaches celebrity worship to the weak.

13 posted on 06/10/2018 2:09:03 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: Rurudyne

They could play “Jump” by Van Halen.


14 posted on 06/10/2018 2:09:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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well, to answer your question:

My faith, my wife, my son, and my grandchildren just to name a few.


15 posted on 06/10/2018 2:12:35 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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I was asked that a lot when I was a kid and i’d always say, no one. They looked at me like I was from another planet.


16 posted on 06/10/2018 2:13:47 PM PDT by Trillian
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Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I’m tired and I
I want to go to bed

Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don’t try to wake me in the morning
‘Cause I will be gone
Don’t feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go

Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I don’t want to wake up
On my own anymore

Sing to me
Sing to me
I don’t want to wake up
On my own anymore

Don’t feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go

There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well

Bye bye
Bye bye
Bye


17 posted on 06/10/2018 2:15:17 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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18 posted on 06/10/2018 2:16:58 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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Of course, but you have a set of values to rule your life.

I’m saying that people see financial success as the end all, be all. If that isn’t enough, then some people run up against a wall of despair.


19 posted on 06/10/2018 2:17:52 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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“We’re sorry ….. all agents are presently busy with other
callers..,,, - your call is important to us, …..Please stay
on the line and the next available agent will be with you shortly. Your expected wait time is estimated to be 40 to 45 mins. YOU can leave a call back number at the tone if you are
unable to Hold. Thank YOU!”


20 posted on 06/10/2018 2:19:37 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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