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Post #417340

Author
Gaffer Tape
Parent topic
RIP Gary Coleman
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Date created
30-May-2010, 12:08 AM

Why is that?  I'm actually afraid of hitting a little too close to home in light of your description of your own life, so I don't want to seem callous or (God forbid) encouraging.  But you used the phrase "no life."  As in, lack of quality of life.  While maybe the circumstances you listed aren't the end of your world, who's to say if they're the end of someone else's world?  Doesn't a complete lack of quality of life seem like a legitimate reason to not want to be alive?  Again, not that I'm saying anything derogatory towards you.  Hell, you might just be made of sterner stuff than others.  But that said, I don't necessarily believe the threshhold of pain is linear.  Some things simply matter more to some people than to others, while the opposite is also true.

But I do object to the cowardly thing.  While I don't necessarily think it just for someone who is responsible for others dependent on them (young children, for example), I stand by my answer that killing oneself is not an easy thing to do.  To anyone who considers suicide an easy or cowardly act, put a gun up to your head and tell me how easy it is to pull the trigger.