12-11-2012, 07:56 PM
(12-10-2012, 08:49 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: Depression and suicide are serious mental health issues brought on by major life stressors. People who make a decision such as self harm attempts or suicide are not in a safe healthy place mentally. Depression and other forms of mental illness can happen to anyone, it does not discriminate.
I agree with some of what you've posted in this thread, but don't see suicide in as black and white of terms as do you.
For example, the nurse who killed herself in the wake of the royal hoax incident had a husband and a child. You intimated that temporary public humiliation and a career set back caused her such deep depression that she chose to escape permanently by committing suicide. If those were truly the only contributing factors, then she was pretty damned selfish in choosing to leave her husband and child with a lifetime of pain, which they can't escape. I think it's quite possible that the hoax fall-out simply aggravated existing mental health issues; she may have been one of those whose depression and mental/emotional imbalance leads them to believe that everyone around them would be better off without them (which is skewed, but not selfish, imo).
Anyway, the human mind and emotions are complex and there's more than one reason why different people choose to commit suicide; some may indeed be selfish and some not. I'd be surprised if educational texts claim any differently. JMO...
P.s. I too am relieved that the boy in the OP was located. Luckily, he doesn't have the mental health issue known as "suicide"
so he's alive to get treatment and hopefully he can be helped.