'The Bridge' was a good documentary. It's about the Golden Gate bridge and the large-ish amount of suicides that occur there every year.

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwl-Pa_QT0M

EDIT: Whole documentary is on YT, part 1 here: (DISTURBING SCENES, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsvRgFcFAg

PS. Mods, if you feel this is against the rules feel free to edit my post. I post it as it is an documentary and from my experience, Subsim does allow documentaries to be posted (look the amount of documataries about uboats, tanks and airplanes we got all over the forums).

The problem with death is that life is never really over.

Life is over in that body for that indvidual ... but at the moment of death that is who you are forever ...

good, bad, grumpy, happy, saved or unsaved.

The body you destroy is not cheating the judge that stands at the door.

It is the soul that is left ... the spirit, the love and the hate you had continues on for eternity in some God forsaken place or perhaps in a heavenly one.

The body is dead without the spirit ....

the spirit wanders till it can be claimed by one side or the other, but then again their is lukewarm and perhaps you'll find yourself on a bar floor room somewhere wondering what the hell happened.

Don't you ever wonder where all of those spooky stories come from about ghost, invisable to the naked eye, many times heard, but not seen.

Spirits of trapped people, desembodied souls, in a world we cannot even begin to understand.

If you want to fear something ... fear your lack of discernment in such matters as suicide.

Take the long way home not the quick way :yep:

Not really a 'problem' if that is how you see it.

If you believe in a higher power who some call God.

From the same place that stories about UFO's, USO's, Bigfoot etc. etc. come from. Folklore and peoples' imagination.

I love this thread, nutshot->decapitation->suicide->religion, this has to be somekind of record here! :rock:

I don't think too many people commit suicide for "no purpose". Other people may not understand the purpose, agree with the purpose, or even know of the purpose, but the suicide knew the purpose.

-- Charles Caleb

That thought has occured to me, but what I was saying was that one who is suicidal might as well have the decency to use their life to advance the lives of others. Even if someone ever was a completely worthless screw-up, what philosophical reason could they have for destroying themselves without doing some kind of good in the process? I see such a thing as being cowardly and without purpose. If one just kills oneself for no apparent purpose, there might as well not be one.

When they get that far under they are not thinking about how wonderful life could be or what better purpose they can serve. It's more like; "Get me off this rock right now!" (or something close to that) -- and the next thing you know you're attending a funeral and left with so many unanswerable questions. You never forget losing someone to that damned sickness.

Anyway, I do see your point and yes people should certainly strive to do the best they can while they still breathe. :yep: But that rationale only works when the person is healthy enough to see fit to continue living. If they're off the deep end and ready to kill themselves, there aren't a whole lot of positive thoughts in the equation.

Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I didn't know............. oh frack it, anything I say now won't make me any less of an ass.:oops: I'm really am sorry, krashkart. I get to thinking about these things and I just sort of get carried away and lose context.

I think you're right, and now that you put it like that, it seems really obvious. In fact, that's even in the book I recommended. Color me stupid. Like I said, I tend to get carried away and lose context. I guess what I really meant was that I couldn't kill myself without some purpose. I would consider it an act of cowardice for me to do that, and I just don't understand how it would be okay for anyone else. Yes, I can really be that stupid.

Again, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to slight someone you lost.

:rotfl2:

It's all good, Undersea. I didn't see any slight at all in your post, and I certainly did not intend on you feeling like an ass. I just felt the need to speak from experience and help clarify something -- which in turn brought about a further clarification. In a way it worked out quite nicely for the both of us (and hopefully for others, as well). :DL

No hurt feelings here, don't lose any sleep over it. :salute:

I think Stephen King wrote a novel where a pregnant woman is in a car accident and has her head cut off. But the body was still able to give birth to the baby. At least I hope it was a novel.

Its interesting to read people's opinions on suicide.

It isn't only suicides that exhibit a death rattle. People in hospital often develop the symptom. From onset to death is less than 24 hours. It is usually at this point the doctor informs the family that death is imminent. It's a human thing. That is why the families are so often present at death.

PS we won't go into the death erection exhibited by men.

Cringe worthy = Just about every hollywood movie that comes out nowdays.

Yo got that right brother. What happened to story?

Anyone mention Joe Theismann, yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ1iVRRu6w0

I understand the "SNAP!!" was audible in the stands, and RFK is NOT a quiet stadium!!!

I remember watching that when it happened and it could be heard over the TV microphones. Not pretty.