Kpax

I don't know why people hang themselves. So many things could go wrong. If you end up paralyzed, you will have to depend on the care of other people, and they certainly wouldn't help you end your life.

As well, there are figures that suggest that most people who commit suicide where also heavy drinkers, and that contributed- their "addiction" I mean... but I beg to differ.

The drinking associated with most wreckless lives was their final means or effort to soothe the pain. They weren't suicidal because their drinking, but drinking because they were suicidal. Obviously it didn't work, but it was an effort to choose life over death.

Of course, sometimes it is true that addiction is the culprit, but not all the time as people would like to believe. A study found that like 30% of people who ended their life also were alcoholics, but this is only because they tried it to see if it would make things less painful. It itself wasn't their bane of existence- not in every case.

Anyway I've heard of this fad of posting your own death, or threatening to, but always wondered how someone would do it. For youtube.com you have to click 'finish,' then upload it, but I suppose in a live chatroom (never visited one) it would be different, real-time.

It was pretty wimpy for the Virginia Tech guy to do it, before having to face the SWAT team or whatnot...

...but for others who end their life, such as Budd Dwyer, it takes courage and guts. I mean, I've loaded my gun, and unloaded it, then loaded it again during tough times, and I just couldn't do it, and so ended up having to deal with a worse pain the next day, that of the situation that made me think about death in the first place. I certainly don't feel like less of a coward for being unable to do it. People who commit suicide want to make a statement about a matter, a loud and clear statement, and it is their last attempt to communicate a message of pain to people who have so far refused to listen. (Of course, I'm not condoning or encouraging the concept.)