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well, he told her.
pwhodges:
Actually, there's not really any other way for it to go for either of them without a new character happening to pop up. And it could be hard work for them sorting this out, so still interesting.
Guido Sarducci:
I've been through this as a younger man, so it's personally painful. I'm not a great man, or even a good one. But I am so grateful I'm not 20. I made so many mistakes as a kid. It's sort of humbling to realize what a shithead I was. The only good thing I can find from it is that I have tried hard not to be that heartless or stupid as a man. Sometimes it even works.
maddness:
I'm glad he manned up and told her himself. I really liked the way Faye reacted to the news. You could tell she was hurt and disappointed, but she didn't go all bananacrackers and make a big scene of it. I liked that Sven looked dejected when she just walked out. If Faye would have reacted the way Sven expected he could have gotten defensive and then told himself "good riddance" when she finally walked out. This way he doesn't get to rationalize the way things went down. Also, since he wasn't looking when she had that hurt face going, he has to kind of wonder if she didn't react as expected because he just wasn't that important. Which would be a kick in the ego for Sven.
On suicide:
Talking about it and pulling those half-assed attempts when you know someone is going to be there to "save" you is a cry for help, or attention, but in your heart or hearts you don't really want to die, you just want something to change. Really making the decision to die is not an easy thing. Survival is a primal instinct and to kill yourself you have to have gotten to the point where the pain is stronger than the innate desire to live. I don't think that the person who chooses to die is a coward, but I do think they've given up any hope of getting out of the situation they're living.
Yeah, life sucks, but wtf is a helmet going to do when the worst of it isn't coming at you from the outside? I've had PTSD since I was 7 and it more than sucks. I've spent pretty much all my life knowing that I'm going to be depressed, anxious and paranoid for the rest of my life and that occasionally the depression is going to slap me down so hard that I never want to get up again. It gets real effing old. So, no, I don't think badly of people who choose to die. I just think that, if as awful as things have gotten for me, I've never done it, how awful must things be for them that they did.
I think that as a parent you have certain responsibilities and I think one of those is to screw up your kids as little as possible. Some may see killing themselves and thereby removing themselves from their kid's lives is the best thing they can do for them. I don't think that you can always see things clearly in certain situations. You don't think about how suicide will impact your kids. I mean, if a kid will blame themselves for their parents divorcing, they will find a way to blame themselves for their parent killing themselves, they will see it as abandonment, they will be angry and you've now put suicide in their minds. I've seen this happen in my own family.
Wulf:
Sven is a jackass.
As great as this strip is, I'm more interested in the aftermath.
JonSnow:
--- Quote from: Arondight on 17 Feb 2009, 07:12 ---
--- Quote from: JonSnow on 17 Feb 2009, 02:47 ---PS: whoever said Faye's dad betrayed he in the hardest way possible: Suicide is not betrayal, do not make an assumption that he was running away from life without knowing the whole story. Suicide is hardly ever an act of cowardice. Cowards are the ones that talk about killing themselves but never get the balls to do it
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It takes more balls to push through a tough situation and live life. Can't hack it so you end it? Pussy.
Suicide is the coward's way out. Life sucks. Get a helmet.
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if suicide is the cowards way out why dont more people kill themselves every day then?
humans are in essence more cowardly and selfish then brave and altruistic.
So by your logic people should be taking the cowards way out of their problems more often then not.
It's against your most basic instincts to do something that you know for sure will end up with you dead.
It takes a serious mindset and a lot of balls do do something which your instincts contradict.
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