I go on here to hear people’s stories. I try to comfort people I know personally who wish that they were dead just like me. I see news articles on cnn about a teen girl who killed herself because she couldn’t take it.. Hell, I’ve had friends and even a love in the past that had taken their own life..
And now I take a second to think.. Who the fuck am I to try to save a life.. when I can’t even save my own? I’m drinking tonight.
Lawrence Egbert: The new Dr. Death
With Jack Kevorkian gone, says Manuel Roig-Franzia, this 84-year-old doctor is the new face of assisted suicide
LAWRENCE EGBERT COMES to his cramped third-story office almost every weekday, taking calls on an old white push-button phone with a handset darkened by years of smudged newsprint and perspiration. Egbert, a slightly built, genial, and energetic retired anesthesiologist, turns to his computer, content to answer an email while I sort through a pile of plastic tubing in a lumpy white garbage bag. Once I finish untangling the tubes, I hold in my hands a curious plastic […]
GA assisted-suicide law struck down
ATLANTA, Feb. 6 (UPI) — The Georgia Supreme Court struck down the state’s assisted-suicide law, saying it violated free-speech clauses in the state and U.S. constitutions.
“As a general matter … government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content,” said the unanimous decision issued Monday in favor of four members the Final Exit Network. ”
The four were charged for assisting in a 2008 suicide, The Atlanta Journal Constitution said. A 1994 Georgia law made it a felony for anyone “who publicly advertises, offers or holds himself or herself out as offering […]
I’m 19 now and I’ve been obsessed with suicide for about 28 months (to be precise :P) I don’t remember how it began… when I was 16 I started feeling depressed, literally because I hated myself, especially my appearance. I remember crying every time I looked in the mirror and crying randomly in public. I didn’t tell anyone… I don’t like talking about my problems to people I know well. Another reason I hated myself so much was because I felt so odd. I got so frustrated with myself and my inability to hold a conversation. I didn’t ever think of suicide at that time […]
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