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Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now
Patrick:
--- Quote from: glyphic on 14 Sep 2010, 10:44 ---I agree with Dovey. Also, are you going to seek professional help? It's a cliche question, but may be a good idea.
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Well I mean I really don't want to wind up back in that shitty place. And if they don't receive a phone call from a psychiatrist with my name mentioned in the conversation, they have my name, address, and basically my ass. I have no choice but to get professional help. And frankly I like it that way.
--- Quote from: Linds on 14 Sep 2010, 22:37 ---Seriously though, I want to know why someone would choose to commit suicide with fire (though I'm probably better off not knowing). That's a really horrible, painful way to die.
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Because if you douse yourself in gasoline and light yourself up, there really isn't any turning back at that point. I can't really speak for anybody else, but I briefly considered that as an option because of that perceived merit alone. I decided instead that I wanted to overdose on codeine and Loko, because being incredibly intolerant of pain, it seemed like the most convenient option. And I'd be too busy being unconscious to give a fuck about my brain and other organs getting a chemical sledgehammer. The mixture of all the chemicals would render me effectively paralyzed and my body incapable of purging itself.
And now, if I could only manifest that kind of determination and desperation and use it to come up with something cool. Hell, that kind of shit is what invented the jet engine.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: Allybee on 14 Sep 2010, 13:03 ---a girl at my university committed suicide by lighting herself on fire sunday night
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The mother of one of my brother's friends did that when I was a kid. I think her daughter was like 12 at the time? Pretty fucked up way to go.
--- Quote from: Allybee on 14 Sep 2010, 13:03 ---my good friend told me that she was beautiful and brilliant and we agreed that it is baffling that people have a hard time seeing themselves the way that other people see them.
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This is pretty fantastic coming from you, Ally (You're lovely, by the way).
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Linds on 14 Sep 2010, 22:37 ---Seriously though, I want to know why someone would choose to commit suicide with fire (though I'm probably better off not knowing). That's a really horrible, painful way to die.
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This barely made the news:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2006/11/07/malachi-ritschers-apparent-suicide/
Note "indicate that he was deeply troubled by the war in Iraq and pinpoint it as a motive for suicide"
And that's probably why it barely made the news.
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Linds on 14 Sep 2010, 22:37 ---Seriously though, I want to know why someone would choose to commit suicide with fire (though I'm probably better off not knowing). That's a really horrible, painful way to die.
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I assumed it was a way to force people to pay attention to your death and to talk about you. Compared to dieing alone in your bedroom, setting yourself on fire in public forces people to acknowledge you and your death. Two years ago a guy at my university set himself on fire in the cemetery on Halloween. That is a suicide that cannot be quietly dealt with. I think some of the feelings that can lead to suicidal ideation are those of being overwhelmed, helpless and ignored. A public self-immoliation can seem like a solution to some of those things. That is why it works for political protests as well. It is hard for anyone in the community to ignore someone who is willing to endure that death.
Ptommydski:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 15 Sep 2010, 06:13 ---This barely made the news:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2006/11/07/malachi-ritschers-apparent-suicide/
Note "indicate that he was deeply troubled by the war in Iraq and pinpoint it as a motive for suicide"
And that's probably why it barely made the news.
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I mentioned this to Ally also. This chap was on Electrical Audio before he died.
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