viaduct suicide

[Margaret Pilkington]

Archiveuk, that is a very compassionate approach you have there.
So you consider your car journey more important than the life of someone with mental health problems??
PBWY.

[Mancie]

We don't know the whole situation this bloke may be in.. for all we know his giro might not have come.

[archiveuk]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Archiveuk, that is a very compassionate approach you have there.
So you consider your car journey more important than the life of someone with mental health problems??
PBWY.

Too right, or put it another way, what right do these muppets have to hold up thousands of people, for the best part of three hours, whist they make a "cry for attention"? i call it total selfishness ...
Imagine the cost to our society in lost working hours, missed appointments, there were drivers and passengers busting to go to the toilet etc .... One womam missed a job interview, need I go on ?

Get em tazzered ...

[Margaret Pilkington]

No, indeed, you have answered my question perfectly.
I do hope that in your life you never have the misfortune to suffer from mental illness, or for that matter have someone you love suffer from mental illness. You assume that this person was just a time waster, because he made you waste some of your time.
You know nothing of the facts of the case or the situation that this person was in.
PBWY

[WillowTheWhisp]

Unless it happens to someone you love you will never understand. It's not 'attention seeking' as is so often dismissed.

To feel suicidal someone must be going through absolute hell.

['erindoors]

I feel that suicide is a very selfish act. I have known people that have done it, 1 that failed and 1 that ,well, diddn't. I saw first hand what they were going through and I feel that there is always a better answer. To put friends and family through all that pain and heartache is, like I said, selfish.

This is just MY personal opinion.

[MargaretR]

I knew a spinster who had terminal cancer and committed suicide.
She had only one living relative - a brother.
She inflicted no pain by doing it- she saved herself a lot of pain, and she was selfless by not wishing to be a burden on her brother.
No two suicides are the same, either in their reason or the after effects.

[derekgas]

If someone has a mental health problem so serious that they consider jumping off a viaduct, what makes anybody think they have even considered the fact that they are holding up traffic, or inflicting emotional damage on thier next of kin, it is a mental health problem, ie, the brain isnt functioning correctly, they are devoid of the ability to make a rational judgement, they likely dont even realise to the full extent that they may kill themselves by jumping, so, what part of 'the person doesn't understand the implications of his actions', do some not understand?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No, indeed, you have answered my question perfectly.
I do hope that in your life you never have the misfortune to suffer from mental illness, or for that matter have someone you love suffer from mental illness. You assume that this person was just a time waster, because he made you waste some of your time.
You know nothing of the facts of the case or the situation that this person was in.
PBWY

Sounds like he already is Margaret

[accyman]

my friend died of mental health problems but his death was labeled as suicide.

he thought he was a yo-yo and threw himself off a viaduct

i seriously dont think he intended to kill himself

[lindsay ormerod]

By the time someone has got to the stage of being suicidal they aren't even thinking about their own wellbeing let alone those they would leave behind.
I too used to think it was a selfish and cowardly act, I have been enlightened on the subject and now view it differently; most " cries for help" are managed so they will be just that, someone bent on suicide isn't thinking that far ahead.

[emamum]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

By the time someone has got to the stage of being suicidal they aren't even thinking about their own wellbeing let alone those they would leave behind.
I too used to think it was a selfish and cowardly act, I have been enlightened on the subject and now view it differently; most " cries for help" are managed so they will be just that, someone bent on suicide isn't thinking that far ahead.

erm....sorry but if they are bent on suicide there isnt a 'ahead'

[blazey]

Originally Posted by Mancie

Eh.. if I lived in Accy jumping off the viaduct would seem like a pretty good option!

Originally Posted by Bagpuss

Can I come and watch?

Mancie, I reckon you could make a good business out of this. I reckon some people would pay a good price judging off some of the attitudes on the forum to suicide

[flashy]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

By the time someone has got to the stage of being suicidal they aren't even thinking about their own wellbeing let alone those they would leave behind.
I too used to think it was a selfish and cowardly act, I have been enlightened on the subject and now view it differently; most " cries for help" are managed so they will be just that, someone bent on suicide isn't thinking that far ahead.

well said Lindsay

[emzy]

I know people who have comitted suicide and people who have contemplated suicide, its clear that rational thought is no longer in it, they need a way out and cant see any other option