Regarding Freeper Obit. TrappedInLiberalHell and Depression

I've been scanning through the comments in the thread Freeper Obit. TrappedInLiberalHell. I was surprised by the number of people that admitted they suffered through bouts of depression and how many themselves have gone so far as to ponder taking a gun to themselves or even getting the gun in the position of taking their life. Again, I was very surprised.

FYI, my late husband never owned a gun of his own. And didn't take a gun to himself to die, either. (You REALLY wanna know? You can FReepmail me, coward!)

Reading this post almost nine months after the event, yes, it still hurts to see your utter insensitivity and self-involvement in even beginning this thread. How you think your moments of self-doubt compare with suicidal despair, I will NEVER know. But I know this: you are evil to have started this thread, and more evil still not to have posted (vanity) in the title.

That said, I wish you no ill. There are levels of evil in this world, and your (I assume) well-intentioned post doesn't even figure on the scale of Saddam's Iraq, Nicolae Caecescu's Romania, and so on...

I still think this was a vanity that piggybacked on my tragedy, however, and I despise you for it.

FRegards, KaJac.

Thank you. Come November, I may need that support a great deal. (I know the obit didn't appear until mid-December, but he had been dead two weeks before he was discovered.) Plus, November being my birthday, wedding anniversary and all...

If I'm a wee bit cranky 'round then, excuse me.

it still hurts to see your utter insensitivity and self-involvement in even beginning this thread. How you think your moments of self-doubt compare with suicidal despair, I will NEVER know. But I know this: you are evil to have started this thread ...

Depression is a common problem, and it is natural that people should discuss it, especially from a moral view-point, joesbucks suggested on this thread. There is nothing evil about it.

I would have thought it more disconcerting if the forum received such tragic news about a member, but had nothing to say in response to the situation. Also, remember that many forum members have first-hand experience themselves and their families, of self-harm, addiction, depression, mental illness, and suicide. You may not know who they are, but they are there, so they do have insights and a right to comment, once an issue is in the public arena.

My point was, this poster's moments of self-doubt don't even begin to compare with the long-term depression my husband had.

It's like someone posting about a FReeper dying of pneumonia and someone posting a thread piggybacking on it saying, "I had the common cold once..."

It's insensitive and it's avoiding the issue and so are you.

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