I hope he’s gettin’ a piece now too. 
Guys, have some sensitivity. Somewhere out there a family and a group of friends now has to plan a funeral for someone who died far too young.
AMEN to that. The woman who uttered these statements is a full-on moron. And I’m sure she was no comfort when she spewed such bullshit to the guy’s grieving mom. What a twit.
It’s very, very, sad. I seriously doubt that the election was the sole reason for this guy’s suicide—something else was obviously going on. This fellow’s suicide will scar his family, like you said. What a sucky thing, all the way around. I feel for his family and friends.
Amen. As someone who’s been in the position of seeing a close friends death smeared on the internet and having people who never knew them callously refer to them as a moron or dumbfuck, I can’t tell you how likely it is that someone who knew that young man will stumble across some form of this insensitive internet glurge and be completely devastated all over again.
Drugs, or depression, this young man’s life obviously took a wrong turn and I feel for his family, fiance’ and friends.
Just to be clear, my post was tounge-in-cheek. I was ridiculing the previous poster’s (and plenty others on this board) comfort with throwing around insults about other people’s intelligence, especially people who just died.
While my heart goes out to his family, I think suicide is in almost every case the supreme act of selfishness. I find it especially unfortunate that someone would kill himself at the WTC, a site where thousands of people unwillingly gave their lives. If I were a relative of a WTC victim I would be saddened and offended that someone had squandered the very thing my relative had been forced to give up. When you would give everything you have to have one more moment with a loved one, it is cold comfort indeed to hear that someone has thrown their life away.
I do not feel my OP was insensitive, but I must say I am disappointed as to the quality of the replies. A young man is dead by his own hand. A tragic and sad thing.
I am sorry that this election seems to have made a sport out of banging on each other and seems to have made each of us a paper target for everyone else.
Harumph!
Well, that was me that started the thread you’re talking about. I was trying to raise him to hero status as actually going through with the act instead of hitting a message board and saying the election was “worse than death and we’re all going to die!”
Get over yourself. That or open a thread bemoaning the loss of life of everyone who dies today. Death is a part of life. Not the end of ALL life.
So if someone wants to start a thread on a tragic death, they’re required to start one for each death that occurs that day? Why?
I don’t recall anyone saying otherwise? Feel free to point it out otherwise.
Why is it that just because someone’s dead we’re not allowed to say anything they did was stupid?
If he killed himself because GWB was reelected, he was a moron.
If he killed himself because he was on drugs and couldn’t control himself, he was a moron.
If he killed himself as a protest, he was a moron.
If he killed himself because he was clinically depressed, then I’m sorry. But that’s the only case in which I will be. Any other reason (that I can think of, makes him a moron).
Oddly enough, my first thought based on the current climate at the SDMB was to wonder if he was a Doper.
A Doper … any Doper … would have shown more respect to those who lost their lives at the WTC, and those who grieve them.
I’m with **Jodi ** all the way.
A week ago, I would have agreed with you. These days, my faith has been shaken somewhat.
Amen to your Amen, Sister.
What if this guy did some heinous crime ( rape, pedophila, beastiality) and the counselor explained to the family " It was what he had to do. It was heroic that he chose to rape/fark at the WTC."
:rolleyes:
The only heroic suicide I’ve ever been traumatized to witness was the couple jumping out of the burning WTC towers. Other than that, that counsellor is full of it.
I live and work with Andrew, and it’s made me pretty sad to see the way everyone has reacted, especially in town. Everyone is really shocked. 
The press has gone crazy and speculations are flying, and I hear cruel things on the street that you really wouldn’t believe.
I don’t think we’ll ever know why he choose to take his life this way, but I seriously doubt it was just because of the election. That’s just a catchy hook for reporters to run with in the press. Maybe it was just the final straw, I don’t know.
There were obviously (hopefully) some very serious underlying mental problems that went unnoticed. I wish he had told someone…
I hope his family and friends get through this without too much added damage without their son and friend’s name thrown all over the country. I wish them strength.
As always, there is more to the story than originally published:
Why was that heroic? Surely it was just desperation?
Saying that this guy was being disrespectful to those who died at the WtC is ridiculous. If he was so out of touch with reality that he thought taking his own life was an appropriate response to a lost election (or whatever the cause ultimately was), then he didn’t have the cognitive means to form the intent necessary to make a disrespectful statement.
You wouldn’t believe the horrible things that people will say to make a tragedy more interesting. 
I’m sorry that you have to exposed to such a dark, unfeeling side of humanity. hug