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Originally Posted by Konichiwaneko
I don't believe you should give pity to people who want to commit suicide, I believe though it's still a good idea to consul them and ask them if it's the right thing to do.
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I'll go a step further than that. I am strongly against using taxpayer money to install suicide prevention rails and cages on bridges. If somebody wants to jump, then let them. Don't make me have to pay to temporarily prevent them from doing something they're going to do anyway.
If I have a family member or friend who is suicidal, I will intervene all that I can and try to help as much as possible, but I wouldn't be so presumptious as to depend on government agencies to do the job for me by building barricades.
In high school, I knew a fireman volunteer who described a scene where a suicidal mother had killed herself and her abused daughter. His view was that although the young daughter was dead, she was probably better off. She would have had to endure many more years of abuse and then would have had kids of her own and repeated the cycle. At least this way, the gene pool was dead. Sometimes, suicide may be nature's way of getting someone to lean into the plate and take one for the team.
And Hal I am really sorry to hear about your mother's ordeal. I am thankful she's okay, but it sucks that some of the faces she knew have vanished.