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Self-medicating: Drugs, alcohol and sex — I’m all for it!

by Flintstone 8/15/2014

written by Flintstone

So we suffer, some of us not so silently.

We self-medicate, I need a couple cocktails in the evening. I have a friend who likes “reefer” (it does nothing for me.)

We (you all out there) also use sex as a drug (some of you anyway) to lose yourself in for awhile. Sometimes 10 or 15 minutes, in my case an hour and a half… 🙂 but it helps for awhile anyway. And the planning, arranging when to meet, where, etc. takes some time away from our collective misery.

Now I’m sure many if not most of you out there have heard the usual BS from your mental […]

8/15/2014 8 comments

You don’t need to practice — just do it!

by Flintstone 8/14/2014

written by Flintstone

I have been thinking about this, and so I’ll post it.

I know we all suffer terribly, and I personally think suicide is a legitimate choice that people should be allowed to make… having said this there is something that that I do have a little problem with: PRACTICING ON YOURSELF!

I just remember working on the periphery of the medical profession for many years, and people who are all carved up or who have to have their stomachs pumped every couple of months are just not taken seriously. Medical staff, social workers, group home staff just simply wear down when clients or patients or CONSUMERS (what a friend’s […]

8/14/2014 4 comments

Turtle Diary (1985)

by Flintstone 8/14/2014

written by Flintstone

This was a cute little movie that peripherally involves a tragic suicide that happens while no one was paying attention.

Sound familiar anyone?

It is a little more plausible than a lot of movies, because the suicide just happens, like so many suicides do. People are so busy in there own little worlds that they can’t even see what’s going on around them.

It might be available at your local library, or Netflix or Hulu.

8/14/2014 0 comment

To be, or not to be…

by Flintstone 8/14/2014

written by Flintstone

The immortal bard really nailed it down here. You can cut and paste snippets of the soliloquy and answer almost every interrogatory on this website.

…that is the question—
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

To die, to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to?

‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep […]

8/14/2014 3 comments

…In the after-life

by Flintstone 8/13/2014

written by Flintstone

I looked through maybe a half dozen books to try to get an idea of what the after-life has in store for those who commit suicide using the documented stories of near-death experiences.

There are really not a whole lot of reasonably impartial documented cases of near death experiences as a whole (as I have been able to determine anyway), maybe only numbering in the hundreds, if that. And of those stories only a handful from people who had attempted suicide…

… at least stories that get to the heart of what everybody really wants to know: Do we go to hell? Or what other negative outcomes can we reasonably infer […]

8/13/2014 18 comments

The answer to all life’s problems…

by Flintstone 8/13/2014

written by Flintstone

There is, what I believe to be a misguided therapeutic view of suicide by medical people, social workers, government types all chattering about the different aspects of this troubling and discordant reality, but they have accomplished almost nothing since the advent of modern medical and academic study, and may have even exacerbated the issue.

Scrupulously fact checked books, articles, medical, philosophical, academic discourses on suicide almost universally call for a psychiatric or therapeutic “cure” to stop suicides from occurring, and despite titles like “Reasons for Suicide” and topic headings to that affect, they really never address the real reasons for suicide and they refuse to lend any shred of credibility to the endless hours of […]

8/13/2014 6 comments