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Goodbye cruel world

While browsing the web tonight I learned this interesting titbit:

It is estimated that only less than one-third of people who commit suicide leave a note. One obvious reason for this is that people who are about to commit suicide may not have much energy, whereas writing a note may require much thought and emotional resources.

 

Don't worry, while I'm not thinking of committing suicide, I can relate - wholehartedly - to the sensation of being sapped of energy and emotional well-being - you see, I'm quite busy at the moment. I'm not just busy with the mundane things such as keeping my job, family and sanity in-tact, there has also been a reservoir of information pushed at me by a snivelling little device called an "aggregator". Let me start at the beginning...

Recently, it seems that Microsoft has instructed every person in their company to blog; not only that, they have also issued a decree which states that: "thy shalt blog at weblogs.asp.net". The noise level at asp.net had been getting quite excruciating up until then but now... Now, NOW... it's uproarious.

Now I'm inundated with information about Content Management Server, Yukon, XAML, Whidbey, you name it; I'm told about it! Until I can think of a better way to filter the noise I'm afraid that I shall have to abstain reading from this place :(

Further Reading
HOW TO WRITE A SUICIDE NOTE
Tips on Writing Your Suicide Note
Posted: Dec 10 2003, 10:17 PM by digory | with 27 comment(s)
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Scott Galloway said:

Also, quite a few people who actually commit suicide don't actually mean to (the old cry for help thing) - people don't realise just how many things can be fatal. In teenage girls, Iron Tablets (taken for anaemia) are a pretty common cause of death - they look harmless but in large doses they're fatal. Also, hanging - very easy to accidentally kill yourself, as beyond a certain pressure you pass out, causing strangulation. Don't worry, I used to study this stuff - not a morbid fascination :-)
# December 10, 2003 7:23 AM

Dennis v/d Stelt said:

@Scott: You say the "don't worry" thing because we might think you are morbid, but don't think about the fact we might find it even more morbid that you did study at this?! :)
# December 10, 2003 7:34 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Hey, I was studying Clinical Psychology...didn't have a choice...very interesting subject though!
# December 10, 2003 8:00 AM

Fabrice said:

I hope that ScottW comes up with not only a solution to aggregate feeds, but also with a way to filter posts out from feeds. For example, it could be as simple as checkboxes posters could use to flag their posts "I talk about the PDC", "I talk about a Microsoft product", "I talk about my company"... You know, some kind of metadata which could be used to filter RSS feeds.
We wouldn't subscribe to Rss.aspx, but to Rss.aspx?ThemeOut=12&ThemeOut=15...
# December 10, 2003 8:48 AM

Mark said:

When people do not understand what life is really about, hopelessness sets in. I know.

There is only one who can change all that:
http://www.gospelcom.net/guidance/gospel/gospel.shtml">http://www.gospelcom.net/guidance/gospel/gospel.shtml
http://www.billygraham.com/believe/

A testimony:
http://www.billygraham.com/article.asp?i=392&s=62

Additional:

http://www.gospelcom.net/guidance/
http://www.gospelcom.net/guidance/grief.shtml
http://www.gospelcom.net/guidance/rejection.shtml

Specifically Suicide:
http://www.billygraham.com/search.asp?search=suicide&x=0&y=0
http://www.billygraham.com/qna/qna.asp?i=3169

I hope this helps.
# December 10, 2003 8:48 AM

Scott Watermasysk said:

The main page will be cleaned up shortly (in addition to some new user features for filtering content).

-Scott
# December 10, 2003 8:55 AM

Fabrice said:

Thanks Scott. Now we should stop asking and let you work and see what you did ;-)
# December 10, 2003 9:05 AM

SBC said:

Hope you watch the classic movie 'It's A Wonderful Like' this season.. :-)
# December 10, 2003 8:24 PM

SBC said:

errata - 'It's A Wonderful Life'
# December 10, 2003 8:42 PM

Steven Smith said:

You can also subscribe to individuals' blogs instead of the BIG FEED OF DEATH. Sure, you may miss stuff, but odds are if it's really important, somebody will tell you about it...

Steve
# December 10, 2003 8:58 PM

Jacob wananda said:

Most people who commit suicide do so primarily because of neglect and sometimes out of self pity.
# March 5, 2004 4:24 AM

Darren Neimke said:

Thanks for that Jacob
# March 5, 2004 4:26 AM

Jacob wananda said:

Commiting suicide is a very terrible thing to do and suicide attempts should be blamed on society members. We as a community must learn to love eachother so as to lessen the cases of suicide.
# March 5, 2004 4:31 AM

Darren Neimke said:

I couldn't agree more.
# March 5, 2004 4:33 AM

Your guardian Angel said:

I agree with you but suicide is not the only way out of your problems.Cause once you do that you are going straight to hell...I have thought about things like that but i would never do it.Cause it would really hurt the ones you love the most and their life could be great and when you do that they might feel that their is nothing left in the world for them and end their life too.And you will be asking yourself why and then their is nothing you can say to make them understand....
Think before you do things this is not just for you but it is for others who come on here .....Read this and think about your life and others...
# May 12, 2004 3:28 PM

aussie said:

People have the right to die when they please or feel like, life's not worth living in this judgemental shitty world that we live. I disagree with your belief that suicide and you go straight to hell. That is assuming that there is a hell. Whats wrong with thinking you stop breathing you die, you rot in the ground or be burnt. Then nothing..... I believe people seek religion to stop them worrying about death and that in someway they will go on and have a better after life then they have here on earth. I think that is just a cop out. People should live life as every day may be last as there are no safe guards that there won't be a nuclear war that will kill everything in it's path........... Man has created enough evil and the odds are that if people can fly 4 planes and crash them into buildings killing thousands then the natural progression with be of a far greater level.
On a serious note I have attended many suicides and it is a waste of human life and it is a shame that there cry's for help or misadventures weren't heard.......
I do believe that the brave live on.....
# June 14, 2004 8:38 AM

john sau said:

people should understand their destination befor making any decison

# July 8, 2007 9:38 PM

steve said:

i as believer i think and believe suicide is very tragik and really hurting to loved ones and one should know that life belongs to creator of heavens and earth who is the all powerful Jehovah.steve

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