Suicide of Columbine victim's mother

Folks, I’m over my head here but I've read various “explanations” and opinions about suicide.

Suicide has been considered immoral - a crime against religion, family, social mores, or whatever.

Suicide has been considered a weakness - as though some moral fiber
(concept) had been ignored or not exercised adequately or properly.

Suicide has been considered both a societal problem and societal answer -
depending upon the evaluator.

Suicide has been considered an emotional problem - something to be
addressed with counseling.

Suicide has been considered a medical problem - something to be
addressed with chemicals or herbs to “put things in balance”.

Suicide has been considered an honorable requirement to “save face”.

Suicide has been considered heroic - a hero’s personal sacrifice to save
other people (e.g. greater love hath no man than he who lays down his life
for another); to support some cause (e.g. the Spartans at Thermopylae);
or even as an homage to discipline (as in the Charge of the Light Brigade).

Well educated specialists in medicine, psychology, psychiatry, and societal
attitudes debate unto death about suicide (pardon the irony) so I believe it
is rather narrow-minded for us, in our ignorance of the lady’s
circumstances, to pass absolute judgement on her or her ability to cope
with burdens of which we may be totally unaware.

The saddest part is that nobody apparently was able to discern that she
was no longer able to cope with her situation and that nobody could
intervene successfully before she implemented what has been called “a
permanent solution to a temporary problem.”

Therefore, I think Ed Brunner has stated the situation most accurately and
succinctly.
 
Mike,

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>when you're walking on eggshells don't jump up and down.[/quote]

You know I am just fed up enough that I plan on saying things just as I see them and if someone that is not decided comes along I don't much give a damn! I will not try and be something I am not to sway them, No that is the game the anti's play, so sorry, but I will tell them the facts and if ask my opinion I will give it without any sugur coating. If this makes them jump into the anti camp so be it. I would rather be honest than recruit through giving up my first amendment rights to speak my mind.



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John - NRA - Lifer
 
The suicide of this woman, may have been due to something besides the apparent effects that the school shootings had on her daughter. Sometimes people get so depressed that they see no sense in going on, they feel useless, and the world would be a better place if they were gone, that there is no sense in the continued fighting of the feeling that everything is out of control
and there is nothing they can do to make it right. She may have very well had a history of depression long before her daughter was shot, and that was just the straw that broke the camels back. She may have felt that she let her daughter down, and couldn't face the shame of it anymore. It doesn't matter wether
she really didn't let her down or not, if that's what she had convinced herself of, then it's just a real as if she really did.
It's sad what this woman did to her family, but no one knows what was going through her mind.
Sorry for being so long winded..

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RKBA
www.southernparty.org
 
Mike H: In defense of this thread, remember that there is much sarcasm, gallows humor, and raw opinions getting tossed about here. Having been accused of "insensitivity" myself, my usual response is similar to John Hunter's. I have no interest in playing nice. Does that attitude make me a bad person? If so, I can deal with it.
 
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