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xineann discovered 7 months ago
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Whenever I read an article or website on how we can prevent teenage suicide, even a very good one that underscores that it is more often a sociological than psychological phenomena, my first response is always "Should we?" I've met many individuals and had close relationships with a few whose lives were so changed forever by the suicide of family member or close friend.
With the death of Heath Ledger, we're in for another wave of romanticizing the tragic, often executed selfishly and without a thought for those who love us. No one is better off without you. SU does not allow enough room for my ranting and the article, but if I must sum up, it's this: What the world needs now isn't love. It needs "to love". It is a duty. Okay, rant mode off. I await my hate mail. Here's the article:
Suicide by Overdose is Not Painless
"How would you do it?"
"Oh, I think I'd take a whole bunch of pills."
"Have you actually poured `a whole bunch of pills' out into your hand?"
"No, never... it's just something that's crossed my mind."
"Do you have access to a gun?"
"No--and even if I did, I wouldn't use a gun. It's too messy. I wouldn't want to leave a mess behind for them to clean up..."
(Tangent: Some people seem to believe a bloody mess is more distressing than self-destruction. To me, this is a distortion of logic: When we learn of people killing themselves, are we more disturbed that they killed themselves or that the surrounding environment required disinfection? Seeing a pool of blood on the floor can be sickening, yes, but seeing a dead body due to a self-inflicted injury is horrifying.)
"... I just want it all to go away. You know, there's no pain this way; just take a whole bunch of pills and fall asleep, never wake up."
While it is occasionally true that swallowing a "whole bunch of pills" may induce immediate loss of consciousness (which is not "sleep") and, eventually, death, this is not always true. People seem to believe that upon swallowing a large number of pills, their bodies will immediately shut down (within minutes, if not seconds, of the ingestion), thus resulting in sleep, and then they will die shortly thereafter. They romanticize suicide by pill overdose.
In fact, the following events are what may actually happen after swallowing a large number of pills:
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