Man commits suicide, creates biographical website documenting his life and death.
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So should we assume that since only the mirrors work that the original was taken down despite being paid for? I'm not shocked by it being taken down, but for some reason I didn't quite expect it.
You know what I think would have been tragic?
What if the day before he finished the webpage and put it up, he died of a sudden and catastrophic stroke, or heart attack? Just up and fucking died, all that work, and all that planning having effectively been for nothing. Of course, nobody in this thread would know about that, we wouldn't know he had spent the better part of fourteen (I think that was the number he mentioned) months carefully doing this. His big thing was going outside the ordinary and doing something special, so if that had happened that would have been awful. Having that train of thought has kind of made me a bit relieved, because after reading this guy's site, I'm glad that he got to do it.
This website may not be the greatest legacy, but damn it, it's [i]his[/i] legacy. I'm glad I got to read it and learn the story of this man.
The most harrowing part of this for me personally is that my parents are around that age, it would be awful if my parents did something like this. Props to the man though, need to admire that courage
He lived an interesting life, I don't regret reading some of his life story.
Also, his honesty and views on suicide and religion are kinda transcending and interesting. I respect his openness and honesty.
I feel incredibly enriched after reading his pages about his death and some of his pages about life. His outlook on life and death resonates with me extremely well. It's something I would like to say I could see myself doing, although I might not be 'hardcore' enough - as he says himself: planning it and making the site is one thing, actually doing it is something else. The site looks so pretty and sophisticated and philosophical but you can't get around standing on a parking lot somewhere armed with a gun with the knowledge that you are going to be a mess for someone - you quite simply can't make the situation feel all that sophisticated at 5AM on a police station parking lot.
I also don't agree with the age he chose. 60? My granddad is 71 and he's nowhere near losing his functionality. But I guess he could just be more run down than others. Who knows what I will be like when I'm 60.
I feel like looking at his suicide as a good thing is morbid and sets a very bad trend.
How does this affect his family, friends, and loved ones? His sister? What will he miss out on not being alive?
I feel like euthanasia and suicide are two completely different things, and this is just suicide. This man was clearly depressed, and if he had a good support network or was in the right state of mind he could have gotten the help he needed and avoided this. He could have continued living his life, made new friends, enjoyed his passions or made new ones.
I work at a senior center. I see people upwards of 90 years old who are still happy and outgoing with a positive outlook on their future and they have their minds intact. While their body may have aged they can still be active and lead fulfilling lives. I know people traveling the world, I know people finding new love, I know people just getting into the computer age.
There's this train of thought going around that when you get old you automatically become senile and useless, and that just plain isn't true. 60 years old is young.
By reading this, you can tell that he is clearly not thinking rationally, and is instead very depressed. He was not in the right state of mind. I have yet to read about or hear about a suicide where someone is. This man was not in chronic incurable pain or inescapable life circumstances, he could have gotten help.
Suicide shouldn't be encouraged. Especially if you're of the opinion that there's nothing going on after death, or if your religion frowns upon it. It's mental illness to want to end one's life, and 9 times out of 10 there's always going to be a reason to keep living. People who are chronically depressed can get help from psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, you name it, and there are free resources for low income people to get the help they need.
So please, don't encourage this kind of behavior. You're just making it more likely that people will end their lives when they could have lived on. Instead, you should help those that feel depressed or suicidal to get help in their time of need.
I read it through, well worth the read. It's sad reading some of it, getting a question and realize there's no way to ask him about it until ... He was very analytically and there isn't really better way to do what he did and its nice how he left something behind on his life rather than fading to nothingness. Whether I have a legacy through people or not, I want to leave some documentation of my life.
[QUOTE=SleepyAl;41906973]don't kill yourself[/QUOTE]
the guy's just reaaally pessimistic about life
his main reasons that he argues in the whole "why not?" section are all just negative
He's talking like there's no reason to live if you never make an impact on the world; "dust in the wind" type shit, that you'll never achieve your goals, and you'll die unsuccessful. It just pisses me off when people can have that mindset that nothing is better than anything.
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