Facebook message saves suicidal boy

[fix-the-spade]

I can't wait for the journalists to cover the story of the boy succeeding on his second attempt. Nah, I'm kidding. The journalists would never do that.

Nah they'' probably twist it to look like the Police discovered a suicide ring on Facebook and 'barely made it' to the boys rescue.

Anyway, nice to see a story that improves my faith in humanity for once.

 

[punkrocker27]

Too bad he facebooked instead of 4channed. Then he'd be dead for sure, and we'd have one less suicidal to watch out for.

Yes I'm, a callous jerk, but suicide is one of those things I have very strong opinions about. It's every person's right to end their life when and how they choose, so I don't see it as our place to "save" such people. Some people just can't hack it in real life, and we shouldn't force life on them. And when we live in a world where natural selection doesn't exist, medicine is promoting longer lifespans and higher birth survival rates, we face a very real problem of overpopulation... So if someone wants to quit the game, I'll neither help nor hinder them, it's their choice to make.

most, if not all kids, after surving their sucide attempt, say that they wish they hadn't done it and didn't want to die after all. makes it even more sad when you think about the ones that succeed.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Hmm I'm in Oxfordshire. This is pretty close to home. Good to see a nice result for a change. Too many teenage suicides, look at Bridgend in Wales.

Yeah it is nice to see a a different story with a "happy ending" but those tennagers in Wales was tragic how many was it about 17?

 

[JokerGrin]

Hmm I'm in Oxfordshire. This is pretty close to home. Good to see a nice result for a change. Too many teenage suicides, look at Bridgend in Wales.

Yeah it is nice to see a a different story with a "happy ending" but those tennagers in Wales was tragic how many was it about 17?

19 I think. Such a waste. I think at least seven knew each other over Facebook or Bebo, some kind of social networking site anyway. I've always wondered how much that had to do with things. Suicide cult?

 

[Sir Ollie]

19 I think. Such a waste. I think at least seven knew each other over Facebook or Bebo, some kind of social networking site anyway. I've always wondered how much that had to do with things. Suicide cult?

Could be, who knows what they were thinking bloody internet

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

technology at work, isn't it splendid

 

[jymbobjones]

An upbeat story about cooperation in saving a human life? Well fuck me sideways.

lol not many of them these days

 

[thewindmill]

I would be pissed at that girl, I mean I'm trusting you with my suicide note and then you go and rat me out to the cops?

Unless this was just a cry for attention, then he probably got exactly what he wanted.

 

[Sparrow]

Well, that girl deserves something out of this.

At least some monies.

If it had happened on the Escapist they could have given her a special badge for it.

No doubt the thanks badge

Or maybe it's secretly how you get the pony badge.

 

[Zildjin81]

Christ, if the boy wants to die then let him die!

If I was that kid no one would have any idea how mad I would be at the girl from Maryland.

 

[nikomas1]

Telling someone that you're gonna kill yourself is the same as crying,
HELP! I HATE THIS CRAP, SOMEONE, JUST HELP ME FOR GODS SAKE!

That's what it is.

 

[Kogarian]

Dark humour aside, I think this is one of the few uplifting stories I've heard all day. Glad some people in this world still give a shit about each other.

 

[nikomas1]

Generally when people tell another person they're about to commit suicide its because they're seeking attention, not because they want to end their own life. Arguably this kid was ODing on drugs when they found him but still, it seems more like a cry for attention than a case of overbearing depression.

Too bad he facebooked instead of 4channed. Then he'd be dead for sure, and we'd have one less suicidal to watch out for.

Yes I'm, a callous jerk, but suicide is one of those things I have very strong opinions about. It's every person's right to end their life when and how they choose, so I don't see it as our place to "save" such people. Some people just can't hack it in real life, and we shouldn't force life on them. And when we live in a world where natural selection doesn't exist, medicine is promoting longer lifespans and higher birth survival rates, we face a very real problem of overpopulation... So if someone wants to quit the game, I'll neither help nor hinder them, it's their choice to make.

QFT

I get sick and tired of hearing about all these "poor teenagers", living in developed nations where the hardest thing that they have to endure up with is the kids teasing them at school, or their parents' divorce, or their girlfriend/boyfriend dumps them. Take a good look through our violence ridden history and you will see that these years are a fucking cake walk compared to what came before. For those that suffer from clinical depression, you have my sympathies, as I have struggled with continual bouts of it since I was 12, but there are services and medications dedicated to helping you. I have managed thus far to deal with it without medication or counselling. One of the best ways I've found to snap myself out of my self-pity/depression cycle is to compare my livcing conditions with those that affect other people around the world. I live in a developed nation, my worries are nothing when compared with people who are fleeing their homes because someone wants to kill their entire family because of their ethnic background or their religion, or living in an overcrowded refugee camp fighting others for scraps of food.
There is another way to deal with it, but that is an affliction I would not wish on anyone.

And I do HATE (Forgive my wordings please, but that's how I feel) people like you (not you, but that way of thinking). Compare myself to those that have it even worse you say, tell me, how does that help me?

This is also a subject I feel strongly for, and I know damned well what I am talking about. You can come from a perfectly "normal" family and still have a crappy life. Where you are born doesn't have a thing to do with it, because, wherever you are, there are still happy and sad people, poor and "rich".

Hell, the only reason I didn't commit suicide is because I'm a coward, a huge freaking coward with a fear of death. I've had plenty of reasons to "End it all", one being that I've been bullied since 1st grade, I'm 16 now, 1st ring in gymnasium (Our highschool, of sorts) and life is looking up.

Point is, you can't compare a developed country to a "3rd world" one, since you start life with different settings, possibility's, and, well, to put it in other terms, "You can't expect a peasant to have the life of a king", You have to make the best of what life throws at you. Life threw me some hard bricks filled with depression and bullshit, I'm still alive.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

You know how to fix depression, and most problems people think they have?

Sex.

They will quit their bitchin' asap.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Well, that makes me happy. Humanity and the Internet doing something good.