You whippersnappers have is so easy these days.
Back in the day folks worked at it, imagination, and true grit.
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the New Ulm [Minn.] Weekly Review, 1886, on a recent surge in U.S. suicides:
The reasons assigned for some of the suicides are silly in the extreme, and some of the methods employed uniquely horrible. One woman killed herself because her mother did, and another because she had a pimple on her nose. … One young woman killed herself because her parents would not allow her to become a Mormon, and a New Yorker shot himself because he hadn’t a nickel to put in the collection box at church. … Several persons died in incalculable agony by jumping into fiery furnaces, and others saturated their clothing with kerosene oil and set it on fire. Still others clumsily sought death by crawling back and forth through barbed-wire fences, entailing great suffering, until they died from exhaustion, and others drove spikes through their brains. Shooting was the most popular method employed, with poison a good second. The most unique example was that of a man who impaled himself on his wooden leg.
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I'd say the reasons for suicides today are just as dumb, looking at them from the outside. But of course to the suicider?... suicideie?... victim, the reason is the most important thing in the world. Plus we don't know how many fatal hold-my-beer-and-watch-this stunts are actually suicides.
It's easy and common to dismiss them(both the reason if known, and person) as crazy. But I'd say anyone who has not considered suicide and dismissed it, is the crazy one.
It's more difficult to feel, I-don't-approve-but-I-understand. All the he/she coulda, shoulda, wouldas in the world are moot once they're gone.
So the time to discuss it is now, before they decide to do it. You may suspect someone is on the edge, but maybe not, so don't pass up talking about it.