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I feel a lot more empathy for someone who dies in defense of others (soldiers, police officers, abortion clinic doctors) then someone who voluntarily decides to off themselves.
As a matter of fact, I feel very little sympathy at all for people who commit suicide. I'll probably watch this just to see what kind of media attention she gets, but I won't be upset if she does kill herself. At least then we'd at least feel like she followed through on a threat. It seems like nine times out of ten, any "threat" like this is for attention or sympathy, so it'll be a good message to would-be threat-makers; "If you're going to threaten to kill yourself, at least have the decency to follow through with it."
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