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Feb. 25th, 2005 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumCNN.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.
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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on 2005-02-25 05:15 pm (UTC)But he had a terminal illness, was 86 (I believe), and informed the family well in advance of what he was going to do and why. (And it wasn't anything messy like a gun.) So they were supportive of his decision and had time to come to terms with it.
In those kind of circumstances, I think suicide is okay.
But Thompson's death... while he was talking to his wife on the phone?! That's cruel. And it doesn't make sense to me how he can go from chitty chatting about her coming home and about working on his column to shooting himself with seemingly no transition.
My sister (now 20) tried to kill herself two years ago, and I don't really condemn her for it. It's just sad to think that she thought death would be better and a way to solve her problems. Of course, the whole thing seems kind of unreal to me because she didn't succeed and because she's fine now.
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on 2005-02-25 05:30 pm (UTC)I'm glad your sister didn't succeed.