Does the internet have a special gathering for people who like to trumpet “straw man” whenever possible? If so, you should make sure you don’t miss out.

A funeral is not for the dead. It is for the living. You didn’t protest her actions, you abandoned your friends at a time when they needed to share their grief with you and yours with them.

Actually, the elderly suicide rate is much higher in Asian cultures than in the West because a lot of old Asian people don’t want to be a burden on their families.

Yes it was a selfish choice that is going to leave scars on his family forever. Those wounds will heal but never go away. However to expect a person with depression to get help on their own is like expecting a person with crippling alcoholism to just get clean.

“People who cannot make rational decisions could at one point. And before that point was reached they decided not to do anything about it.”

I’m not sure why you replied to me with this missive about Eastern v. Western lifestyles.

“Unless they were in fugue states and honestly did not know what they were doing, fuck them.”

Oh, you want to chime in now? I thought your shitty accusation that my argument was intentionally obscuring the point was all I was getting from you.

People who are actively in therapy, on medication, doing all the stuff they’re “supposed” to be doing when they’re severely depressed — those people kill themselves all the time. You assume a LOT about what brings people to that place. We don’t know this woman with kids that killed herself, so we can’t comment on her.…

Check your own saddle and gear before looking over mine, pardner.

What must it be like to know exactly how everyone should live their life and they choices they should make. Something tells me your friend probably sought help several times and was met with some spectacular bootstraps related advice.

YES, the lowest level of depression physically embodies itself. It can make you physically ill. Physically in pain. Physically unable to get out of bed and care for your loved ones, while you lie there and hate yourself for your inability to do it.

When someone is deep in depression, they feel that they are making their loved ones’ lives worse by being there, that they would all be better off without them around. In their mind, they are doing everyone else a favor by going. It’s not just escaping their own pain, but sparing everyone else as well. It’s not…

He’s not expecting anything. He’s dead. I would say he doesn’t care, but even that is saying too much. He killed himself because he didn’t want to feel anything anymore. There was just too much pain. Now, he doesn’t exist anymore except for in your contempt for him.

Congratulations- you have no idea what it’s like to be at the lowest levels of depression, but you’ve spouting off about it anyway.

Because having depression is so manageable, right? Just don’t do it. Or wait until she’s no longer a minor to do. So if he did it when she was 18 you’re cool with it but if he did when she was 17 you’d still be pissed? That makes a lot of sense. You’re trying to use logic to explain why someone shouldn’t commit…

People with children are not allowed to have crippling depression. Got it. Thanks for that. I’ll keep it in mind.

One of the most powerful things I ever heard about suicide came from my therapist, who told me that suicide is contagious. And that if I were to take my life it would send the message to my young niece that suicide is an option. An option that people take and that she could take if her life got tough at some point.…

Okay anyone out there suffering: please get help. You can text LISTEN to 839863. You can call 1-800-273-8255 i8f you are going through any kind of crisis This happens to be our local Reno office and I feel confident they are highly trained in helping LGBTQ people, veterans, domestic violence, and sexual assault…

There are enough times where I’m sitting in a movie theater, feeling tears roll down my face, where I think, “I’m pretty sure I’m being manipulated and this movie isn’t THAT good, but a good cry is a good cry.”