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Re Ciel: I wrote a few months back on this topic
Thank you for the link and for sharing your views on this subject. 
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posted by
Pannonian
on August 27, 2012 at 5:23 PM
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I wrote a few months back on this topic
I've been on both sides of the fence--the one where suicide looks like an option... and talking with someone who had made the decision already. After seven hours of exchanged emails, she decided to keep on trying. As far as I know, she is still trying. Another, years before, asked my spiritual opinion, and didn't like it. But he didn't carry through until a year or so later, when he finally just got tired of living with problems he couldn't face fixing.
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/707539
posted by
Ciel
on August 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM
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Oh yes, the reasons for why one commits suicide vary with each one being unique though one can certainly draw parallels...I don't know much about suicide hotlines.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 26, 2012 at 9:20 AM
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You probably are right where certain people are concerned. However, a call to a Hotline can be a bid for attention, sometimes it is just the need to say goodbye, even to a stranger, or it's a sincere cry for help. If the cry goes unanswered, or is not answered in a convincing way, it will often result in the act being carried through. On the other hand, more than one life HAS been saved just because the tomorrow brought something that gave the person a glimmer of hope. Like child custody battles, each case is unique, and should be handled that way; unfortunately not what happens in this hurried world.
posted by
adnohr
on August 26, 2012 at 4:48 AM
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Well Pan when I was young I was afraid that I might do something awful, I kept imaging how I would look and at times felt sick of thinking about such a prospect, so I don't think there was much chance of it happening. My cousin who was quite any easy going guy had strawberries for lunch and then went upstairs and hanged himself. Funnily enough his mother had told me years ago in a round about way that it had come over her as she called it, but it had passed. I think in some folk there is a time when this emptiness comes and one might feel in a kind of secure bubble with only one performance in mind. I do hope that you achieved results with your kind actions.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 12:34 AM
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I had a granddaughter who attempted suicide. She is a nurse, but
there were disappointments in her life, illness had left her barren, she was out of control with food addictions, kept falling for wrong guys. So she swallowed some OTC pills and alcohol, the called a girlfriend who lived 40 miles away to talk about what she was so sad and mad about. The friend called the 911 in my granddaughter's town, she was saved, went through psych evaluations. A few days later I went in to see her with my son and daughter-in-law. When they left to get a cup of coffee, I went into tiger mother mode. I said if she ever tried anything like that again I would kick her ass. I told her she had broken her parents' hearts, and that nobody would ever get over it if she had died with so much beautiful life ahead of her. I said I loved her and I was sorry she was going through the tough times, but that wouldn't stop me from kicking her butt. We hugged and laughed and cried and she promised it would never happen again. So far, so good.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 25, 2012 at 2:56 PM
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