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Originally Posted by CheGTR
This was all I was able to find.Originally Posted by Mr Fongstarr
Originally Posted by holler mcdollar
i saw "the bridge" a while back and thought it was crazy. some parts dragged on, yeah, but the story on the guy "gene" (long haired guy in that vid) was downright sad. his blog is still online, the entries obviously stopped years ago.
Do you have the link to his blog?
And for people that want to watch it....it is on HULU.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/95971/the-bridge
sry to hearOriginally Posted by Clevereddie
A friend of mine that i met back in middle school killed himself just recently.
He shot himself in the head.
no one knows why he did it.
he was loved by everybody, he always had a smile on.
we had a small memorial the next day and so many people showed up to share stories about him and show that we all missed him.
So now i look at suicide differently, and don't think i could ever judge anybody who commits suicide, because only they know what they are doing.
san fran #failOriginally Posted by lobotomybeats
Shaze804 wrote:
they need to install that damn net. i couldnt imagine suicide, much less jumping off a bridge. i like my life.
why? thats 40-50mill, and the people are just gonna find another way to /themselves. it's inevitable.
i do feel bad for them, but a net isn't going to end suicide. these people need love, friends, etc.
reading the blog link posted for Gene has meover here.
why? thats 40-50mill, and the people are just gonna find another way to /themselves. it's inevitable.Originally Posted by thytkerjobs
Shaze804 wrote:
they need to install that damn net. i couldnt imagine suicide, much less jumping off a bridge. i like my life.
why? thats 40-50mill, and the people are just gonna find another way to /themselves. it's inevitable.Originally Posted by thytkerjobs
Shaze804 wrote:
they need to install that damn net. i couldnt imagine suicide, much less jumping off a bridge. i like my life.
man, poor dudeOriginally Posted by Air ih Zona
Here's the thing you're failing to realize: not everyone has family that cares about them. I work with juvenile delinquents, and there's one kid at work right now whose biological parents are both dead (from different circumstances), and he was accused of molesting a little girl in one of the foster homes he was in when he was 8. He's now 16, been in 27 different foster homes, and he's about to graduate the program we have at work. For kids with traditional families, graduating the program I work at means they have completed their court sentence by graduating, and they can go back home, with their charges dropped (ranging from weapons possession, drug possession, assault, GTA, etc.). This kid is one of the few on campus that has NO charges, so graduating the program for him doesn't mean he's fulfilling a court sentence. It simply means that he can go back to foster care.Originally Posted by 23ska909red02
CheGTR:
Suicide is seriously the most selfish thing that one can ever do. #**% is stupid, for real. You only get one life to live and you think your problems are bigger than family, friends, the world, the universe and all the amazing things one can see, do, hear, feel, etc in life.
Foster care. He has been rejected by 27 different foster homes already, and his reward for graduating our program is that he gets to go back to this system that continuously bounces him around. And why has he been in so many foster homes? Because of two things: #1- because of the accusation from 8 years ago, and #2- he has issues with depression and hyperactivity. The last foster home he was in suggested that he be placed in a juvenile treatment program for delinquent behaviors, and his social worker agreed, so he was sent to us.
Now when he goes back to foster care, he will still have that accusation hanging on his head, and he definitely still has depressive episodes and hyperactive behaviors.
Picture THIS kid as a 25-year-old on the side of the bridge. He's having trouble coping with having NO caregivers to reach out to every Mother's Day and Father's Day and Christmas and everything. He can't stomach one more story of people getting all kinds of well-wishes on their birthdays when his birthday goes by every year without so much as a call. Maybe a friend from wherever he works that year buys him a round, maybe he just stays at home with his dog.
You tell me that your line about him being selfish applies.
"Dude, you're being selfish! Think about your family, and how hurt they'll be when they hear you're dead!" Yeah, about that...
"You have all kinds of friends that will be heartbroken by you being gone!" If you're expecting him to look back on this address book of people who he knows value him, you're basically giving him more reason to jump by not knowing anything about him, not knowing that he has struggled to form meaningful friendships his whole life, including adulthood. His address book is VVVNDS.
"Think of your kids and your wife/girlfriend." Right, because women are CLAMORING to fall in love with a guy who grew up in foster care and consequentially developed hyperactive, depressive behaviors and was accused of molestation as a young boy. You're sure this 25-year-old young man you're trying to talk down has a loving relationship to look back on?
You can't tell this kid to think about hurting the people that matter to him, because the entire reason he's standing there is because he's sick of not mattering to anyone, as evidenced by countless holidays alone or with people who tossed him a charity invite to their house because they know his situation.
Sure, there are people who are undermining how much their parents and wives and husbands and children love them, and your line about them being selfish works for them, but there are people who are fully aware that their funeral would have absolutely no one in attendance that was sincerely heartbroken and in serious mourning over their death. You might be aware that YOUR funeral would have plenty of people in mourning over your death as well as people pissed off that you put them through that pain, but your experience is by NO means universal.