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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 01:20 AM Original message |
Someday all of us will be dead for a long time, so do not hurry to die. Graves are boring places: |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Thank you for your generosity of spirit in this sad time for you |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 02:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Why not stick around a while and see what happens next? |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I plan to---you reminded me of the pain that suicide causes others that one leaves behind |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 10:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Sounds like a great plan |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 02:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. Everyday is a gift. I just read about the last days of author David Foster Wallace, a guy who |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. Yes. Every day is a gift, though on some days one wishes the gift could be quietly exchanged |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
4. The old saw is that suicide |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 03:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I have no confidence that I can speak to the dead, nor do I spend much time worrying |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 03:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I got no indication that you were "unhappy" |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Should I approve had he cut off his hand for no good reason or strangled his daughter? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. We saw each other nearly every week as children. I remember him in diapers. I saw him |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Your lack of empathy and manners is appalling |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 09:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. and right now, he is angry. Anger is a part of grieving. It comes before acceptance, if one is lucky |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. I'm so very sorry. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Yes, one does not know. Once, the husband of a good friend of mine committed suicide |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 06:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. What an eloquent, moving post. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 06:39 AM Response to Original message |
9. Oh my, I'm so sorry, |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. Thanks, supe. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
11. I am sorry to hear of the loss to your family. Special hugs for |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Yes. Now I must try to decide what I will say to her, to his sister, to his sister's |
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Moondog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. Please accept my sympathies. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
16. Condolences to your family. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #16 |
33. He was in the despair that Kiekegaard calls "the sickness unto death" |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
18. My deepest sympathies. |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
22. I am so sorry to hear this. His despair must have been a terrible thing. |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
25. I'm very sorry to hear that. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
26. My father did not commit suicide |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 03:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. I am sorry about your father's suffering |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
27. Sometimes I wonder if those who are so hardened against suicides have just been very lucky |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Thanks for saying this. It's very easy to judge, much harder to understand the level of pain. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 02:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. If I am sorry to see forests torn down for strip malls or mountaintops levelled for coal, |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Sad is fine |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 04:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I doubt whether the dead care much if I think good or ill of them: it is possible to offend |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
30. there is an amount of pain, in which one cant think that rationally. |
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