Why do we go out of our way to prevent it?

For instance:

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" Last fall, transportation officials approved $5 million in federal funding to design a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge. Plans include a stainless steel net that would hang below the span."

It doesn't harm or affect OTHER people, and it certainly has consent of the person committing the act.

If I want to jump off the motherfucking bridge, I should be able to jump off the motherfucking bridge.

Game over.

3/11/2011 12:43:32 PM

I ike Coke, Sunkist, Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Gingerale, and a splash of Pink Lemonade

3/11/2011 12:44:16 PM

Mr. Pibb actually does better than Dr. Pepper

3/11/2011 12:47:52 PM

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"It doesn't harm or affect OTHER people"

False statement is false.

Present your argument again, this time, without any false assertions.

3/11/2011 12:48:30 PM

hm ill have to try that

it is an ongoing process.

3/11/2011 12:48:38 PM

Money; its cost the taxpayers money to investigation the incident and then locate and remove your body from the water.

3/11/2011 12:51:15 PM

I hate when I fuck up the ratios and have to start all over.

wastefulness ITT

3/11/2011 12:51:43 PM

can i refer the thread to Seinfeld - The Bris

where a guy jumps and lands on George's car, leaving George responsible for paying for the damages

3/11/2011 12:52:04 PM

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1/4oz island blue pucker schnapps
1/4oz vodka

3/11/2011 1:01:11 PM

^
that sounds like suicide

3/11/2011 1:03:51 PM

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"can i refer the thread to Seinfeld - The Bris where a guy jumps and lands on George's car, leaving George responsible for paying for the damages"

Well, have a law to take it out of the person who has died's account for damages he has caused during the jump. I don't think the dead person needs it anymore.

There are, I'm just guessing here, hundreds and thousands of acts of vandalism in this country that are non-suicide related that the owner must pay for. That's part of life.

3/11/2011 1:12:17 PM

So the people that commit suicide and have no monies would be harming those family members that take on their debts?

3/11/2011 1:13:15 PM

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 1:13 PM. Reason : ^^]

3/11/2011 1:13:21 PM

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"It doesn't harm or affect OTHER people"

as someone who has had both family members and friends kill themselves, i am going to disagree with this quoted statement

3/11/2011 1:14:46 PM

You guys are really pushing it.


It's really not complicated. If a person dies, don't expect your shit back.

If a suicidal person lives, don't expect your shit back.

3/11/2011 1:16:02 PM

Suicide: not at all complicated. Right.

3/11/2011 1:16:53 PM

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"as someone who has had both family members and friends kill themselves, i am going to disagree with this quoted statemen"

Boo hoo.

People die naturally anyway.

You'll get the same emotions eventually.

3/11/2011 1:17:22 PM

lol I hope you're a retarded troll

3/11/2011 1:17:46 PM

Suicide is pretty simple.

3/11/2011 1:17:46 PM

its a little different when a 90 year old dies of old age compared to a 30 year old blowing his brains out

3/11/2011 1:18:02 PM

Keeping people alive for your own emotions isn't really thinking about them at all. It's greedy and selfish.

3/11/2011 1:18:44 PM

isnt killing yourself greedy and selfish?

3/11/2011 1:20:17 PM

unsuccessful troll is becoming successful

3/11/2011 1:22:02 PM

No it's not, it's removing yourself from the game. You're tired of playing.

3/11/2011 1:22:22 PM

man...when i'm tired of playing a game, i take a break or play another game

3/11/2011 1:23:08 PM

3/11/2011 1:24:27 PM

bada-ba-bye

3/11/2011 1:24:51 PM

I'm pro-suicide and hope its the way I eventually go out

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"isnt killing yourself greedy and selfish?"

its no more selfish than your "loved ones" wanting you to stay alive

3/11/2011 1:27:34 PM

is slow with liquor

3/11/2011 1:34:15 PM

is fast with freight train

3/11/2011 1:37:14 PM

most people who are suicidial do not WANT to die. they feel like there is no other option.

3/11/2011 1:39:58 PM

i think i am ok with like, "physician assisted suicide" (or the dr providing the drugs that you inject yourself, or whatever)

it does hurt other people though but i mean if you can rationally and sanely make the choice, then go for it i guess. i am more for it in situations of suffering and illnesses where a person will never recover, but i am not against it being an option for healthy people i guess if they make the decision and haven't been declared to have some mental disorder/depression/etc

but jumping off buildings and bridges etc is too attention whorish and does cause problems for others

investigations, closing the bridge, body recovery, people who witness it might suffer distress, etc, etc

if you REALLY want to commit suicide, just use medicine or blow your brains out at home. i feel like the people who jump off things are just trying to make a statement/be over dramatic.

3/11/2011 1:45:06 PM

^^maybe so

but I'd say most people who actually commit suicide to do want to die, or at least, its kind of impossible to assess one way or another, you know, since they're dead and we can't ask them

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 1:45 PM. Reason : ...]

3/11/2011 1:45:09 PM

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"its kind of impossible to assess one way or another, you know, since they're dead and we can't ask them"

unsuccessful suicides? people with major depressive disorder who have not attempted suicide? you said yourself you would like to die by suicide. is it because you have a death wish, or because you don't want to suffer?

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"if you REALLY want to commit suicide, just use medicine or blow your brains out at home. i feel like the people who jump off things are just trying to make a statement/be over dramatic."

lol...you're criticizing suicidal people for being overly dramatic. depression makes you irrational, overly sensitive (or overly insensitive), and sometimes delusional.

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 1:51 PM. Reason : .]

3/11/2011 1:49:59 PM

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"depression makes you irrational, overly sensitive (or overly insensitive), and sometimes delusional."

those are judgments. maybe it makes you appropriately sensitive and more genuinely aware of what the fuck is going on.

3/11/2011 1:53:12 PM

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"those are judgments. maybe it makes you appropriately sensitive and more genuinely aware of what the fuck is going on."

maybe. depends your definition of "appropriately sensitive". could you address my question?

3/11/2011 1:56:38 PM

MAJOR newsflash: not everyone that wants to die is depressed

which is why i qualified my statements about supporting suicide w/ based on a rational decision

if you do research on states that have proposed physician assisted suicide measures (or death with dignity...pas kinda has a negative connotation for a lot of people) they usually have little "safeguards" in there about having the person undergo a psychological evaluation or whatever before being allowed to legally commit suicide (of course they could always just skip out on that and do it the old fashioned way, but whatevs)

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 1:57 PM. Reason : .]

3/11/2011 1:57:04 PM

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"most people who are suicidial do not WANT to die."

I don't disagree with assisted suicide. I disagree with rash decisions based on temporary negative feelings.

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 2:01 PM. Reason : .]

3/11/2011 2:00:21 PM

Ask Stiletto's friends whether or not it affects them.

This thread is full of fail.

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM. Reason : fail!]

3/11/2011 2:07:52 PM

Are you stilleto's friend?

3/11/2011 2:12:04 PM

I thought this thread was about what GeniuSxBoY's employees were thinking about the whole time they were working in that shitty pizza place.

3/11/2011 2:13:17 PM

on behalf of stranger-to-me Stiletto, fuck his friends and their sad lives if they couldn't handle him wanting to check out

3/11/2011 2:14:34 PM

Nope.

Didn't know the guy.




But as someone who worked in an ER for a year, suicide fucking sucks. Your bravado is embarrassing.

3/11/2011 2:16:07 PM

Soylent Green ITT...

Ignorant idealism from OP...who might be an intellectual/logical genius of sort, but appears to be very emotionally naive and retarded.

In a world devoid of human emotion (and what you yourself might argue is a more evolved existence), suicide might not negatively impact society around you.

In our real, flawed world, taking your own life does have an emotional impact...often a huge one. And it can be argued that taking your own life is every bit as selfish to others as their not wanting you to commit suicide is selfish toward you.

3/11/2011 2:20:12 PM

Quote :

"But as someone who worked in an ER for a year, suicide fucking sucks. Your bravado is embarrassing."

He's clueless and obviously has no first-hand experience.

3/11/2011 2:21:08 PM

oh lol my bad!

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 2:24 PM. Reason : sry yo]

3/11/2011 2:22:48 PM

^i think ^^ may have been talking about the OP

3/11/2011 2:23:21 PM

the op and screentest

3/11/2011 2:23:46 PM

It's perfectly natural to want to end your life after losing a crappy pizza joint.

My advice is go for it.

3/11/2011 2:26:35 PM

if someone no longer wants to live and consciously ceases to do so, then that's their business

hopefully in doing so they won't greatly inconvenience anyone else (traffic jam or whatever)

i think this "culture of life" i hear people sometimes champion has more to do with a (subconscious perhaps) personal fear of death than anything else

3/11/2011 2:34:10 PM