Yeah.. we really don’t know what, if anything, he was doing to deal with depression. Lots of people have killed themselves while seeking help. This shit digs it’s claws in and even with a “great” life it can be hard to fight. Even the fact that you are depressed when life seems to be going so well can be confounding for people suffering through it or for those around it. It’s a shame.

Twitter is arguing that you shouldn't use the phrase committed suicide anymore since it isn't PC and labels suicide as sinful and wrong.

No shit.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

You really think people who commit suicide are "selfish pricks"?

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It's always interesting that people think someone would "choose" to kill themselves. Outside of doing it because you have an incurable disease, it is completely irrational and it goes against all of human nature.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

When I saw the news this AM, my first two thoughts were:

1. Some horrible kind of cancer or dementia diagnosis, or
2. David Carradine.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

"God" would not look favorably upon somebody who judges people by saying that their life has no meaning, simply because they don't believe the exact same thing you do.

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That sucks.

He was outspoken against Harvey Weinstein. They probably killed him for it.

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No, I'm pretty sure God is cool with that line of thinking.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/?

Suicide rates are up across the US.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

That's.....insane.

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Mario Batali too.

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Yea. It's not hard for me though. Every time I play a video game I get an overwhelming feeling I'm wasting my life.

Then I go to a bar and drink

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

A lot of people wuss out and off themselves facing a tremendous punishment or reckoning. Like a life sentence or being found out to be someone like Madoff or Sandusky.

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Elections have consequences.

Very "fire and brimstone-y". Thanks Jerry Falwell.

The answer to this question lies in science not religion.

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Oh yeah, same here. This was a jerking off session gone bad.

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Aren't orgasms pretty cool on their own ( not that my wife would know ) without having to "intensify" thereby choking yourself?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Joke option 1.

Joke option 2. Oh she knows.

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Elections have consequences.

Looks like another dumb-ass echo's Flapjack's thoughts

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

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North is correct.

I don't think that is the case here, but really euthanasia should be an option for people. We have the compassion to let our pets die peacefully when they become terminally ill, but we don't have the same compassion for ourselves. If I ever got a diagnosis like ALS, I'd opt for euthanasia once I lost motor function.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I don't know if it has been studied, but I bet social media helps drive this as everyone thinks their friends and acquaintances have the perfect life and don't realize that those people are just putting out the good and hiding the bad.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Well he did say God bless them all.

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Elections have consequences.

Shout out to google ads on another site I read. Someone started this thread there and it’s full of Ashley Madison ads because “life is short”

Your life will be shorter when their next security leak lets your wife see you were trying to cheat on her.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

This 100%. My wife’s grandma passed from this last year. Simply awful.

Anyone who opposed euthanasia should live through a grease fire.

You're entering waters that are too deep for you, friend.

People agreeing with North's brazenly stupid tweet (is there any other kind?) ought to be troubled simply with the fact that they're agreeing with North.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

As someone who has been in the deepest parts of depression and has had 4 suicide attempts,first was at age 14. You have no idea what the person is going through. To even reach the place where you are getting ready to do it is a fucked up trip of mind and spirit.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I'm a strong swimmer.


I agree. Then, before its even cold, cut my body/brain apart to study it in the hopes that there is information in there to help further treatments.

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