Exordium is (soon) dead

[Bridie]

Life is painful at times. Sometimes it's such a comfort to think of taking the easy way out... but if you do, you will just be making life more painful for those people who love you and who will be effected by your death.

Self-indulgence can be such a destructive force.

[Æmeric]

Have you really contacted the police? Sorry but I think that this plain rude and intrusive. I mean, even if someone does decide to kill himself, one still deserves one's privacy and respect for one's decision

So I really hope that you didn't. And anyways he is ok, we spoke earlier.

VA is training for a carrer in lawenforcement, he is suppose to help prevent suicide if he is aware of these situations.

I think if someone really wants to kill themselves they will not tell others. Telling others of your plans or desire to end your own life is a request (even if only subconsciously) for an intervention.

[Angantyr]

Well I respectfully disagree as well and maybe this is the part where I should say that a suicide threat is not treated the same in Finland as it is viewed in the U.S.A. or Canada, if you know what I mean.

And anyway, my point was, that I would consider it to be a vast violation of privacy if someone uses my personal info to contact the authorities, even if for my own good.

By joining any forum, I trust the administrators to keep my private information, private. Not to say that private information was disclosed by the admins in this case, because I believe that VA obtained the information via some other source.

And for the record I don't consider this post as a cry for help as in "call the police" but rather as in "I need to take some load off my chest".

From a legal standpoint, Exordium waived his right to privacy the moment he posted on this public board of his suicidal feelings.

More importantly, had Exordium actually committed suicide and we failed to act, you would not feel so justified in your position of indignation over privacy.

Absinthe, if I ever thought that you or any other of my kin were in imminent danger, I would use all means at my disposal to assist. You have my respect, my concern and my support, even if you think it is a violation of your privacy.

[lei.talk]

I do not promise that I will end my life today...
But eventually I will.

during the early eighties,
many of my friends of the lavender persuasion
(rather than endure the indignities of "the gay cancer")
departed by their own devices.

a few years later,
confronted by the inexorable debilitations of g.r.i.d -
many more chose an exit
with some dignitas
(a blatant reference).

one of my heroes,
when diagnosed with a brain-cancer,
refused all food for a month - rather than offer pointless resistance.

of course, this was burdensome
to those around him.

we discovered, too late,
that my maternal grand-father
(confronted with infirmities)
sold his live-stock, arranged his affairs
and sat in his favorite chair
on the veranda over-looking his fields,

while he dehydrated over three days and nights.

by appointment, the mortician found him
two days after that, removed him
and notified us.

my plan is nearly as simple
and requires even less clean-up.

do you plan a shocking mess
at your brain-surgeon's office?

a moderate inconvenience for your land-lord
and emergency personnel?

or a disappearance:
a return to nature in the forest -
via insulin - never to be found?

[Vulpix]

Thread closed. Refer to the new thread My apologies to all.