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Another young man in town hung himself
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 554171" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><em>Taking one's life is the opposite of what healthy people do...fight to survive. I still say that to take one's life, the person has to be unstable or pushed to instability by so much outside pressure that one feels it is better not to exist than to go on the way things are. </em></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><em></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><em></em>And this is what I should have said - mental <strong>instability.</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Lisa, I personally feel that if one has been diagnosis'd terminal and is sick of the pain, suffering, etc., one should be able to take their own life with dignity and grace in a way of their own choosing. That is not the issue I was talking about.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">By what we know of this young man and the other other man who killed his baby-mam and himself, it was a case of handling stressors that MOST people can cope through. The more recent man found out his live in girlfriend was cheating on him. The other young man was dealing with his girlfriend's decision to leave him. I do believe that siutational depression is a mental disorder and, at the very least, mental instability, and that was what was going on in these two cases...and several other cases within our town where homicide/suicide has occurred. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">It has recently been repeatedly reported in various national newspapers and medical journal magazines that suicide among TEENS and 20-SOMETHINGS is on the rise and that, in fact, people in those age groups are more likely to die of suicide than from auto accidents. My question is WHY? It isn't ONLY mental instability/disorders - I firmly believe that changes in societal norms are to blame, mainstream media, sensationalism, and the effects of Hollywood on our children, among other factors.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 554171, member: 2211"] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][I]Taking one's life is the opposite of what healthy people do...fight to survive. I still say that to take one's life, the person has to be unstable or pushed to instability by so much outside pressure that one feels it is better not to exist than to go on the way things are. [/I]And this is what I should have said - mental [B]instability.[/B] Lisa, I personally feel that if one has been diagnosis'd terminal and is sick of the pain, suffering, etc., one should be able to take their own life with dignity and grace in a way of their own choosing. That is not the issue I was talking about. By what we know of this young man and the other other man who killed his baby-mam and himself, it was a case of handling stressors that MOST people can cope through. The more recent man found out his live in girlfriend was cheating on him. The other young man was dealing with his girlfriend's decision to leave him. I do believe that siutational depression is a mental disorder and, at the very least, mental instability, and that was what was going on in these two cases...and several other cases within our town where homicide/suicide has occurred. It has recently been repeatedly reported in various national newspapers and medical journal magazines that suicide among TEENS and 20-SOMETHINGS is on the rise and that, in fact, people in those age groups are more likely to die of suicide than from auto accidents. My question is WHY? It isn't ONLY mental instability/disorders - I firmly believe that changes in societal norms are to blame, mainstream media, sensationalism, and the effects of Hollywood on our children, among other factors.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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