As someone who considered a ‘protest suicide’ after a hotly contested election didn’t go the way I’d wanted it to go*, I have to say I agree with both those saying there has to be more than just election results to make this guy commit suicide, and those saying that it’s a stupid reason to kill oneself. Of course, as someone who’d had the great fun of living with a suicidal roommate at one point, my patience with suicide, and suicide talkers/threateners, is best measured using negative numbers. So, I have to confess to having a little quirk of humor at the gallows humor. Even though I do feel it was a bit inappropriate.
Besides, Darwins aren’t awarded for suicides.
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Seriously, how does an intelligent person fail at suicde? I’m inclined to believe that most people who survive suicide attempts don’t mean to die. Which doesn’t make the situation any less terrible for friends or family, or mean that they’re less ill or deserving of compassion - just that a suicide attempt survived is a call for help more often than it is a serious attempt to die.
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*If I thought for one instant that the winning candidate would give a damn about someone being so upset at the victory that they’d self-immolate I might have been tempted to go through with it. As it was, null temptation, really. Just an odd thought.
More to the point, if you fail at suicide, why do you suddenly stop trying? I mean, it’s not like your life got any better and, hey, it’s just another thing you fail at.
Brutus
The article in the op was quoting the Newsday article. So saying that Newsday is saying the same thing is not getting a second source.
Come on Brutus, can’t you find a way to implicate Bill and Hillary?
So true. Why just this week, I turned my Evil Liberal Mind Control Ray on four more students. Surprised the hell out of them, I can tell you…right in a middle of a discussion of the second derivative test, ZAP! They’re currently held in pods in the Evil Liberal Conspiracy HQ, being kept in biological stasis by Evil Liberal Face-Huggers during their re-programming.
Oh come on, he was one of those anti-Bush fanatics (liars), a very common breed that pollutes various internet sites.
He obviously sacrificied himself because of Bush. In an article one of his coworkers said she wasn’t sure if he was even for Kerry (Like many who voted for Kerry), but he certainly was anti-Bush.
He also seemed to be fond of the terrorist loving Al-Jazeera channel, as he had a poster for some movie about Al-Jazeera hanging on his wall.
According to that article:*
Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia *
Now unless he swept the floor there, couldn’t we guess his job required a bit of intelligence? Someone like that might feel a “tad” upset that a guy with an IQ of a turnip just got re-elected President. Also, this turnip IQ President defeated a candidate who was much more intelligent, presented himself much better and could say thw word NOO-KLEE-AR correctly.
TheTruth
“Dubya’s” getting re-elected again for the second time may have triggered extreme frustration. Well, at least he no longer has to listen to Dubya Bush’s misspeakables anymore. (Hey that’s a damned good reason right there).
Tell me, how could this person commit suicide in a non-pathetic fashion?
Suicide as an expression of unbounded optimism? You mean, like, “Shit, things are so fucking great, I can’t stand it!” Hmmmm, perhaps if this notion were spread more widely in, ah, certain segments of the population…
No. That would be wrong. Bad 'luci! Bad! Go lay down by your water dish!
He could have finished himself off in his home state for example, and not tried to make a silly, political statement by choosing to dispose of his life at ground zero, of all places. How disrespectful.
Sure. But with Bush’s track record, that’s like hoping Carrot Top can actually devise a comedy act that’s not moronic, juvenile, and an embarassment to the human race.
note: I will not make light of this man’s conviction nor devalue his life as many have demonstrated. A life with meaning, a death with meaning. Unfortunately, this is what many have yet to understand about our “war” against terrorism. He has illuminated truth manifold.
