Marie Osmond's son just committed suicide. :(
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There's so much feeling of hopelessness going around these days. 
Aw, man. First Andrew Koenig, now Marie Osmond's kid. That is just horrible.
That is just horrible.
My goodness... What the hell is going on? I had no idea so many people were desperate for hope.
What the hell is going on? I had no idea so many people were desperate for hope.
I considered it once, myself. I realized that there would be far too many people that loved me that i would end up hurting had i gone through with the attempt. Good thing too. I had the knife in my hands and everything ...
My goodness...
Yes, two people killing themselves in the span of a week sure is unusual.
100 people a day kill themselves in the USA.
My goodness...
People are always desperate for hope. If they weren't the world would be a better place than it is.
That said, I'm sorry to hear this. I didn't even know Marie had a son.
That is sad.
For the people who can't understand it...well, I've got stuff going on in my life that's all financial-related, but also currently feels inescapable, could have some dire consequences, and has led me to have some...unfortunate...thoughts. What thoughts I have in the next few days will probably depend on the outcome of a few phonecalls and some research.
The problem with the "don't they know how many people they'll hurt" argument is that sometimes the people who they'll hurt haven't been active in the person's life in one way or another, or for one reason or another aren't able to help, or the person develops the notion that not being in the other person's life may be -better- for them in the long run.
In the past I've posted entries in my LiveJournal (yes, I'm a geek, whatever) saying things like "I have no idea what I'm going to do about this" and "Maybe I should just gack myself and be done with it" and gotten no response at all. For some people, that's all the validation they need that their friends don't really care. Note that I'm not talking about what the real score is, just how a person contemplating taking their own life might perceive it.
IMO, if someone starts taking about taking their own life, even if you are sure they're just being emo or what-not, take them seriously...because that's a hell of a lot better than assuming they're not being serious and then being proven wrong.
For the people who can't understand it...well, I've got stuff going on in my life that's all financial-related, but also currently feels inescapable, could have some dire consequences, and has led me to have some...unfortunate...thoughts. What thoughts I have in the next few days will probably depend on the outcome of a few phonecalls and some research.
The problem with the "don't they know how many people they'll hurt" argument is that sometimes the people who they'll hurt haven't been active in the person's life in one way or another, or for one reason or another aren't able to help, or the person develops the notion that not being in the other person's life may be -better- for them in the long run.
In the past I've posted entries in my LiveJournal (yes, I'm a geek, whatever) saying things like "I have no idea what I'm going to do about this" and "Maybe I should just gack myself and be done with it" and gotten no response at all. For some people, that's all the validation they need that their friends don't really care. Note that I'm not talking about what the real score is, just how a person contemplating taking their own life might perceive it.
IMO, if someone starts taking about taking their own life, even if you are sure they're just being emo or what-not, take them seriously...because that's a hell of a lot better than assuming they're not being serious and then being proven wrong.
My goodness...
People are always desperate for hope. If they weren't the world would be a better place than it is.
That said, I'm sorry to hear this. I didn't even know Marie had a son.
Marie had eight kids, five adopted.
All the "privilege" in the world won't stop someone from feeling lonely and unloved. Whatever you have, there's always something you don't.
In some of these recent threads, people have said how they're feeling depressed because "me and my significant other can't pay the bills", or whatnot. To which I say, dude, you have an SO! You have someone who loves you and whom you can love in return. I would quit my job in a heartbeat if I thought it would help me find that for myself. But it won't.
