http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10735305
Garth George posits that everyone wearing purple rubber bands on their wrists will help stop teen suicide. Wake me up! I posted a comment that didn't make it to the board. I tried again, to post what I've posted below:
"Interesting you publish the comments glorifying suicide (having big kahunas and making a logical choice), yet when I dare say people need to stop with the instant gratification cycle we're in, I'm not allowed to say!
You can't just push 'triangle, triangle, circle' and have a job appear, or have a meal appear! Life inside a video game rarely meets our expectations.
Life IS hard. Try some perspective and gratitude - you could be living in Iraq. India. North Korea.
The poster above whose daughter killed herself despite being bright, having it all, and a man who loved her - I am sorry for your loss. The disease is MORE. We are inculcated to want more and more and more and more, instead of knowing when we have ENOUGH.
A piece of rubber around my wrist will do precisely nothing to stop suicide."
You can't just push 'triangle, triangle, circle' and have a job appear, or have a meal appear! Life inside a video game rarely meets our expectations.
Life IS hard. Try some perspective and gratitude - you could be living in Iraq. India. North Korea.
The poster above whose daughter killed herself despite being bright, having it all, and a man who loved her - I am sorry for your loss. The disease is MORE. We are inculcated to want more and more and more and more, instead of knowing when we have ENOUGH.
A piece of rubber around my wrist will do precisely nothing to stop suicide."
It's a tough one. I have to tell you, I have never met anybody with a worse story than the one endured by my sisters and I in our family of origin. Well, I've heard the stories, but they're all dead. We chose to live. I usually encapsulate it by saying 'We lived on "Once Were Warriors" Street, with a cast of thousands.' Except when I reached the point of no return that the girl did, I kept walking. One foot in front of the other.
Being a citizen is over-rated. Being a useful member of society, given my start, my background, and my experience, is hard fucken work. It's definitely not for the faint-hearted! Regular living is hard, let alone having the cards stacked against you from the start. I get that. Suicide is not an option. It's a permanent, selfish solution to a temporary problem.
As for poor mental health that leads to some suicides, I bleed. IF we had a society that truly cared, and acknowledged and fully supported those with mental health issues, this might change.
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