Holy shit. This guy really was upset it seems. Kinda puts the liberal Doper’s “end of the world” rhetoric in perspective. They seem to find a way to go on with life
Yay Darwin!
Well, that was quite inappropriate, Brutus.
I agree. I should have said, ‘Yay gene pool!’
I am actually suprisingly sympathic to a wide variety of concerns. Killing oneself because they didn’t like the election results is not among those concerns.
Brutus: Do you think it’s possible that it wasn’t the election results so much as the results of the election that made this man lose hope?
Just a suggestion.
Somehow I suspect that there’s much more to it. One doesn’t kill oneself over the result of an election. Having been suicidal once before in my life, an incident may set it off, but there are a ton of other underlying internal reasons that one contemplates suicide. I feel sorry for the guy’s family. He was engaged, too. His fiance must be feeling pretty terrible.
I do think both comments were inappropriate. Come on, Brutus, at least prove you’re better than that.
Ava
Wow, that’s what I really call putting the bullet where your heart is.
Ya mind telling me how “Veal apparently was distraught over President Bush’s (search) re-election”? Was there a note? Did he tell friends?
Or did a bad reporter just make some assumptions?
Brutus, anyone who take his life because of an election would probably also take his life because he saw* Old Yeller * on TCM…meaning he probably had some issues unrelated to the election.
But hey, as long as you find it funny…
Probably not. But you have to admit, if the election really was the primary motivator for this guy offing himself, Brutus’s comments were spot on.
I was expecting a few suicides. When I heard about the way the election was going I was wondering to myself whether it would be unreasonable to commit suicide. I came back to reality though. Apparently this poor guy didn’t.
No mention of any history of depression or whatnot. Hey, judging from some of the comments out there (not here, thankfully), I am somewhat suprised that we haven’t seen more of this.
Look at the reporting website. Fox News. They live to make liberals look like idiots. There was no note. The only source they cite for basing his suicide on the election results is an ‘unnamed police source’ and the fact that he was a registered Democrat who opposed the way. I’m surprised they didn’t fall flat on their faces with that giant leap to a conclusion.
And no, I would still find them inappropriate. But I’m funny like that - I don’t really see the humor in suicide. Perhaps it’s because one of my friends has attempted suicide several times (most recently in the past week) over things that others might find trivial when those of us who know her know that it goes much deeper than that.
Ava
Compassionate conservatism at work, I see.
Ah, you mean conservative compassionism, right?
Are you really that blinded? Well, take heart. They also reported that Bush won, the Marines are set to enter Fallujah, and Congress has gained power.
Hell, I guess you’re feeling pretty good now. :rolleyes:
Not just FoxNews. (Is Newsday a conservative source?)
No mention of the reason for the suicide here.
As for me, I chucked a little at Brutus’s comment and Miller’s followup (gallows humor, so sue me), but I have to agree with others that more than likely this poor soul was already in serious trouble and anything would have sent him over the edge. My heart goes out to his family and loved ones.
If he really did kill himself over the election, yeah, total ouchebag. “Waah, I didn’t get my way so I’ll just end it.” Selfish bastard, doing that to his friends, family and fiance.
Chances are he was already depressed, though. I can’t see a totally sane person going from normal to suicidal just like that over an election of all things.
Hence my “if” qualifier. I agree, there almost certainly was more going wrong with this guy’s life than just politics. But if there wasn’t (and there’s no way for anyone here to know for sure, one way or the other) than this really was pretty pathetic. Since this story is of virtually no importance to anyone who posts here (assuming, of course, that none of his friends or family members post here, which seems a fairly safe assumption) I don’t see the harm in wringing a little black humor from Fox New’s characteristically unsupportable premise.
I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I hope he or she is okay, physically for the moment, and spiritually in the long run. I know how tough it is when someone you love is in such desperate, self-destructive straits.
However, please keep in mind that not everyone is as emotionally involved in the issue as you are, and that not everyone who is as emotionally involved in the issue as you are copes with it in the same way that you cope with it.
I feel sorry for the misguided moron, but the weird thing is, I was just having a discusion with a friend of mine a few days ago, after seeing the enormous amount of whining (by a certain type of people) on various internet sites I have visited, and I told him I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of the more wacky types actually kill themselves. Seems like I was correct. :dubious:
And this dude was a university worker ? I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a leftist profesor. Geez, some of them are wackos.
Because, you know, so many of THOSE CERTAIN TYPE OF LIBERA – I mean, people – are unbalanced enough to off themselves over an election. :rolleyes:
I’d be kind of surprised if he was a 25-year-old professor. But then again, I read the whole article.