Posted by misterb on August 13, 2000, at 3:29:49
In reply to Re: Malignant Sadness - title source.. » dj, posted by Oddzilla on August 11, 2000, at 8:01:54
"I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."
I could explain this motivation for suicide in my own psuedonymic voice but then i would have to deal with yet another derisive, hateful series of "get some help" posts. Better to quote Don Mclean as he explained this common motivation in the words of a well-received popular song.
By the way, isn't ersatz concern, expressed as "get some help" another way of stigmatizing people? Isn't that just a rather sophisticated rendition of the insult "sicko"?
Is it okay (aka "civil") to stigmatize people who endure conditions often described as depression if the person stigmatized is one who declines to accept the popular diagnoses and medical description of those conditions?
Is it possible for a person to intelligently disagree with DSM-IV, and to agree with Thomas Szasz and many others without that intelligent disagreement being reduced to another proof of the person's sickness?
And that burning cosmic question....
What if there really is something to be sad about for a long, long time? Such as the direction of our culture, and the destruction of the environment? like constant artificial stimulation of the RAS?
"Beware of the HANDSHAKE, it don't tell the truth...SMILING FACES TELL LIES."Another very uncivil popular song.
Oh, and one other question... what if these were real expressions of my legitimate feelings and concerns, and not just some effort to gain attention for psuedonymic character?
This world was probably never meant for one as sincere, concerned, intense and iconoclasitic as me. This is my party and I'll die if I want to, die if I want to.> >
> > Certainly anyone who commits, considers or attempts suicide has to be in a state of self-loathing.
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> I don't agree with that. I think it may be true sometimes but a lot of times suicide is a last desperate attempt to stop the pain. This could be seen as an act of self-love rather than loathing. I think most suicides are trying to dest
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