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Sup Rouge!!! ....(long time no see) yup yup thats a bad way to go. It kinda reminds me of a "faces of death" video I once saw..This guy was on the water trying to knab a Fl.
swamp gator and well his rope got tangled and then ...well the gator said "BELCH"

This is realy weird..

today (or yesterday) I don't know all the details yet.
A friend of mine commited suicide..

He had been locked up in a mental hospital for a while for a previous attempt.

He used a plastic bag over his head as his way to go..

This is a real shock to me.. specialy since I had been reading this thread just this morning...

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A few days ago, there was this big fuss in India: a man died, and they burnt his body according to the ancient rites. No big deal, but there was someone else with him on the pyre: his wife. And no, she wasn't dead. She decided to follow her husband to "eternity". Indian police forces tried to stop the ritual, but were held back by the masses. A horrible death, indeed. But what amazed me most about that story is that the woman wasn't tied or anything. She was just laying there, undergoing horrible pains. She chose that over a life without her beloved one...
Her own choice... And she must have been determined, otherwise she couldn't have gone through that horrible pain. And her family? They were all very proud of her...

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I read somewhere once (but I can't remember where) about how Western culture/ideology/religion has improved those of other countries/peoples. And in the case about India, that it was (but apparantly still is according to the news posted by Negative) the tradition that when the husband dies, the wife (even if she's still alive) would join the husband in the burning/cremation. Why?? It said that once the husband dies, the wife is worthless since no other men would marry her.

This part I'm not so clear, either the British or the missionaries? whichever, when they saw this practice were shocked, hmm, obviously! and they put an end to the practice.

I remember when I read about that I was surprised to learn of that old tradition of India but I'm even more surprised that it still happens nowadays.

I always say that people who commit suicide are stupid. I don't agree with the use of the word coward/courage. But definately I agree with the word "determined"...Determined to commit an act of stupidity. Nobody forces a person into commiting suicide, they chose to do it. I agree life is precious. One thing for sure is that we live ONCE! which is NOW! (You can believe in reincarnation but you don't know for certain it exists, same goes for Heaven & Hell, it's just a belief, a good one too since it makes you choose to do good in your life)

i have dealt with suicide indirectly many times. a few coments i'd like to make:

ginsu knives are curved slightly at the end. yes, they can cut anything but they do not go in straight. this saved the life of a friend of mine as it ended up just missing his heart.

drowning, suffocation in general, is supposed to be very euphoric, which is why many people do such. in fact, plummeting from a building or plane would result in the same, as the wind rushing past your fave would suffocate you, or so i'm told.

the japanese kamakazis (sp?), suicide bombers, martyrs and others that die for a cause are only doing what they are told is right. through doing this, they feel they are able to reach the unattainable. to the vikings, it was valhalla (a warriors heaven); to the kamakazis, it was for country; for the suicide bombers it was for allah. there is an interesting interview in the latest harpers magazine in which two suicide bombers did not go through with their mission and got caught. the thing that both ended up saying was that when they got to their destination, they saw the faces of the people they were supposed to kill and decided that what they were doing was horrible. killing is wrong, no matter how you look at it.

suicide can destroy people. the ones that are left behind are left with a feeling of abandonment, with questions arrising "how could they love me when they left me?" andthus is an issue from then on in that persons life; in many aspects, family, friends, relationships...