would you feel guilty?

:lol:

 

Ain't no dagger in a guilutine!

 

well it was serious until about post 20, not bad for this place
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my bad.

anyway, I think that it takes a LONG time for words on a screen to become an identity for someone reading them. though I'm convinced that if someone really wants to die, no one can really stop them after they reach a point.

 

I joke about everything. Race, religion, gender, sexuality.

But I couldn't imagine saying something like 'stop being such a baby' or some of the things I've heard on the internet and in culture.

I lost two of the most important people in my life when I was younger. And was very very depressed for a long time.

I remember one day coming home from school with nothing particularlly wrong, my father saying to me, 'if I ever shot myself with one of his guns, he'd dig me up and shoot me again.'

That's very supportive. I couldn't imagine having that little regard for the life of anyone. Anyone who says 'cry for attention' has never known or had the forethought to really see into someone else pain.

I can't imagine having so little empathy for the suffering of another person. It's the same kind of revolt I hear when someone responds to a rape victim saying they shouldn't have gotten so drunk around strangers.

If I was ever in front of someone who said such a thing in person, I would roll them.

 

yeah but like I said earlier, could someone feel uncertain, then do it cause of what people have said on a forum?
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Ive stated my case on suicide, Ive had 2 cousins and a best friend of mine throw their lives away out of self pity and bullshit

I really dont give a fuck how close i am to a person, any mention of an act of suicide and you better not tell me, because if they have the balls to go through with it i will only piss on their grave. I do not care how you hurt or how hard you cry to yourself, wallow in your self pity and deal with it but i will not shed a tear for a worthless waste of life that they so believed it was

 

I guess so. but at the same time, I'm not sure if I could hold the other person accountable. it's hard for me to say.

 

I think, a person can only be persuaded not to commit suicide if they really don't want to kill themselves. In which case its usually just an act and cry for help. Anyways, someone who was really going to kill themselves probably would not be posting it. I found out recently that a friend of mine who i've lost communication with within the past two weeks has been spending his time in a psych ward because he attempted to hang himself. He told no one and no one would have been able to convince him otherwise. ALMOST everyone who posts about how they want to kill themselves on a forum/internet is just crying for help, though theres always exceptions.

 

What forumers say are more likely to persuade someone to suicide then not, us forumers can be rather harsh.

 

DEAAAAATH!!!! DEEAAAATH TO SMOOOOOOCHIEEEEEE!!!!

 

Smoochies got Nazi hookups, watch yo back.

 

I would feel bad but I wouldn't beat myself up because I try to talk to everyone that posts threads like that and take them seriously.... there is only so much a person can do over the internet though so I would at least know I did all I could....

 

Ok so the poster that prompted me to make this thread wasn't being serious, or maybe he was and was to ashamed to keep up with him, we'll probably never know.
i would still rather help someone and waste a bit of my time though, it feels like more fool them
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Agreed. At the same time, no one can be persuaded TO commit suicide by strangers on the internet.
If they go ahead with it, then there were much greater issues than what someone said on the internet. People don't kill themselves over one tiny thing. There is usually a last straw, and I don't think strangers will have any pull at that point, one way or the other.

 

that last straw could be the tiny thing someone says
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If so, then the person is way too unstable in the first place. A stranger on the computer is not in any way touching my life, I can turn off the computer and be done with them. So anyone who really does kill themselves and leaves a note that says a stranger told them to grow up is insane.

It would be like saying "some guy in an internet chatroom to me to kill a random person on the street today, so I did. It's all their fault"

 

watch it, the dead guys family will sue you now.

 

ok we're talking about two subtly different things here, anyone that says I commited suicide because of daisymae's harsh words, needs to grow up (if they're still living) and take some responsibility, however your harsh words could have been the point where the person thinks, ok nobody does care, so I think suicide threads need to be taken seriously, because we have no idea about the persons mental health who is writing them
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I just mean that if that is all it takes to REALLY end your life, you were too far gone to start with.