Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on April 24, 2012, 04:09:14 PM

Quote from: the joint on April 24, 2012, 03:59:08 PM

I think it's important to mention this:

There are not simply two kinds of suicidal threats (i.e. serious vs call-for-help). There's a lot of gray area, and a lot of unpredictability.

Take the person I met that drank a cup of bleach. They will tell you all about it.

If there's one thing I've learned from working in a hospital, it's that every person who threatens suicide is in a world of problems. You take absolutely every threat seriously because "serious" is not simply limited to the actual act of attempting suicide.

Ordinarily I would agree with this line of thought, but I am right-to-life and I think suicide is everyone's own choice. Furthermore I believe there are far worse fates than death because I do not believe in an afterlife. If I came to the forums threatening suicide, I'd want everyone to tell me to shut the fuck up and stop whining, not rush to my aid. Rushing to my aid would only depress me that everyone is that pathetic and ignorant. Atlas is just testing the fences, and many suicide fakers are too.

It's not a happy circumstance when someone dies, but I stand by my lack of care for suicide as a statement to this generation that they are all fucking pansies when it comes to the concept of death. Death is the most natural thing in the entire world. Bring it on. I'll kill myself tomorrow just to prove a point. Who cares? Life will end for everyone, so choosing when it ends is an awesome empowerment. I salute suicide. That said, if someone is killing themselves because they're sad about something, then that's no different than getting drunk or doing drugs because they're sad about something-- it's escapism and I don't support it.

So to sum up:

Killing yourself because of a calculated decision based on your worth in the world and your lack of interest in continuing the endless torture that is life: Okay.
Killing yourself because you're an emofag who doesn't want to go to school anymore: Not okay.

Atlas isn't either. He's an attention whore who thinks every brain fart of his is a revolution we should all be awestruck by.

+1

I truly do enjoy your writing style (content and structure), Matthew.

~Bruno~

SAD EDIT: Did I just waste my 5000th post in an Atlas thread? This is way wrong on so many levels.