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CNN.com has a brief article on the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson. I just need to say that it was an incredibly selfish thing he did. His 6 year old grandchild was in the house, for crying out loud.

Suicide is a really selfish act, and believe me I know what I'm talking about. Suicide means you don't care about what happens to the other people in your life, because your pain is the most important pain in the whole world.

Don't get me wrong, I have great pity for people who feel their lives are no longer worth living, and people who shoot themselves especially are not using suicide as a 'cry for help'. They mean it. But it is selfish. Everyone in the world has pain, other people get diseases and actually manage to end their last days peacefully rather than tramatising their loved ones with a violent death.


Huh. That's a pretty depressing rant for a Friday. Sorry. Will write something cheery later.

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CNN.com has a brief article on the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson. I just need to say that it was an incredibly selfish thing he did. His 6 year old grandchild was in the house, for crying out loud.

Suicide is a really selfish act, and believe me I know what I'm talking about. Suicide means you don't care about what happens to the other people in your life, because your pain is the most important pain in the whole world.

Don't get me wrong, I have great pity for people who feel their lives are no longer worth living, and people who shoot themselves especially are not using suicide as a 'cry for help'. They mean it. But it is selfish. Everyone in the world has pain, other people get diseases and actually manage to end their last days peacefully rather than tramatising their loved ones with a violent death.


Huh. That's a pretty depressing rant for a Friday. Sorry. Will write something cheery later.