A girl kills herself over fake spoilers on latest Harry Potter book.
8 mad rant(s) » Add your own! RANDTed: Tasha Green at 10:07:00 PMgot this from a blog by a guy named martin. anyway, i dont know if the story is true or not, but its interesting. just as the title suggests...
A girl kills herself over fake spoilers on Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. The news report said that the girl and her mother had downloaded from a website what they believed to be the legitimate copy of “Harry potter and the deathly hallows”
It was actually a fake book in which Harry potter and his friends meet a gruesome end.
The girl’s mother said that her daughter was very “crushed” by the news and locked herself in her room. When the girl’s mother came up to call her for dinner she found that her daughter had hanged herself in her closet using rolled up bedsheets and a nightgown.
The news reporter interviewing the mother then said that the girls room was filled with all sorts of Harry Potter toys, models, posters, dolls and the six books.
quite tragic no? ahh... the bad side of being addicted to Harry Potter. i guess, this must mean that J.K Rowling is a superb writer. she's able to make people addicted to the story and made it feel real. hmmm...
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Of course, different people have different views on life. But let me stress here that in no way is life that miserable to the point that you can just take your life away from yourself.
I'm sure that a lot of us, maybe all of us, have felt at one point of life that life just doesn't seem worth living at all because of some high-level depression, relationship problems, life struggle and so on. Not that I've not felt suicidal before, but that does not constitute the reason why I should stop living and decide on what is supposedly the "best" for me.
Suicide may seem to be the easy way out, but it isn't. Indeed, it takes a lot of courage to put an end to their own lives, but I'm strictly discouraging anyone from committing suicide. If you are feeling suicidal, go talk to somebody about your problems. Consult a psychiatrist if you need to. The problem is that many people think consulting a psychiatrist is only necessary if the person has a "loose nut" in the head. That is not necessarily so. A psychiatrist can act as a counsellor who gives advice when it comes to life issues.
Besides, is there any problem that just cannot be solved? No, not at all. In fact, with patience, strength, determination and the courage to face the problem, all can be solved given some time.
Most importantly, one should know that committing suicide isn't the solution to all your problems. In fact, it creates more problems and it is an act of escaping or running away from them. Why run? Are humans not created to withstand stress and solve problems? After all, nobody has ever said that life is a bed of roses (they contain thorns waiting to prick you here and there).
Most of the suicide cases happen because of relationship problems. I mean, can you count how many suicide cases are due to relationship problems? No, it's uncountable. Just to name one example, remember Leslie Cheung?
Being in a relationship is like standing on delicate ground; you'll never know when you might step into quicksand. But when some people do, they don't shout for help, they just let themselves sink. Or some of them think that they are able to get out themselves. For those who are able to do so, very well! This will add to their experience and maturity. For those who are not, they can still be saved if they shout, otherwise they will just sink to oblivion (OK, maybe not).
No doubt, a person who is in a relationship will or may face many problems (*recalls his own relationship*. Strange... I never had any. Seriously!). Sometimes, those problems can stress an individual up so much that they are at their wits' end. They go into long-term depression and when they can't handle it, they "kiss" all of us goodbye.
Look, life is more than just a relationship. I would advise that being in a relationship is strictly OK, provided you really know your priorities. I say "really" because a lot of people think and say they know what their priorities are but they fail to uphold their words miserably.
At our particular age, getting involved in a relationship is normal, but I would advise not too emotionally attached or dependent. This might seem harsh but pray read on. Relationships, like life, are not a bed of roses. When things go wrong, and I mean wrong, it will hurt emotionally and even psychologically, some even physically. When things do go wrong, depending on how emotionally attached are you to your partner, it can affect the level of emotional distress you experience.
Sometimes, when things do go wrong or when you are facing a dilemma, it is time to step out from things for a while and look into them; you might get a clearer picture of what is happening and what you should be doing. Also, when one is in some sort of dilemma, often you choose to stay in the "grey" area waiting for things to happen so that you can decide the next step. I suggest don't. Staying in the "grey" area for a long time, to me, is equivalent to escaping from the problem itself. Stepping out of the "grey" area would allow you to face the problem directly and deal with it. It is indeed easier said than done, but if you don't even give yourself a chance to try and step out of things, you'll never know if it's "easier said than done" or "easier done than said".
No matter what the circumstances are, in no way is it justified for a person to commit suicide. If anyone here does contemplate to take his or her own life, halt your intentions and ask yourself these: Is it necessary? How will other people react? Will my problems be solved? What about my loved ones? etc.
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As someone who has contemplated suicide countless times, I'd like to share my 2 cents on this issue. Imho, people who kill themselves for minor matters (getting dumped, etc.) are somewhat unreasonable. I wouldn't condemn them so quickly though. The worst part a suicidal person experiences is being unable to make those around him understand.
It's all a matter of perspective. What you consider trivial might mean the world to me, and vice versa.
Imagine losing or not being to achieve that something that meant to you so much. Even though you've tried so hard, so often, putting everything to it but to no avail. Or getting stuck in a situation that beyond fixing. Others may see you as an individual who's got something going for yourself, but really, when you're in that kind of situation, nothing else matters.
Most suicidal people don't wake up, feel horrible and suddenly decide,"Hey, life isn't as pretty as I thought it'd be, so I'll just kill myself." It takes a slow spiral down till you hit the abyss. Everything suffocates. During my Dark Ages (2005), I felt as though there were invisible walls that kept closing in on me all the time. Waking up in the middle night, experiencing panic attacks alone. It gets so bad that you see suicide options wherever you go. Like walking by the road and thinking,"I could jump right in front of that fast Proton." Or,"Look, there's a kitchen knife..."
The worst part a suicidal person experiences is being unable to make those around him understand. Some dismiss suicidals as weak-minded, but it takes a lot of guts to decide to end your life and actually do it (this doesn't mean I condone suicide). They are considered paranoid. Yet in that very depressed state of mind, everything seems dire. The suicidal descends even more, unable to communicate his fears to his worried family and friends; the friends cannot understand why the suicide case cannot see another angle to his predicament and avoid discussing it with him. It's a vicious circle.
Still, I'd say that the best way is to hang on. Somehow, the so-very-big problem will, with time, lessen. Maybe, just maybe, there might even be a solution. I can confidently say so because I did the same, and I've never regretted it.
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3 mad rant(s) » Add your own! RANDTed: Siti 'Afifah at 9:26:00 PMSu - i - cide.Some might tell us, tell me to be compassionate with these people, victims of this horrible thought but it's hard to sympathise with these people when they have something going on for them compared to others.
Are you suicidal? Am I?
A guy from my block tried to jump off the 9th storey last Sunday. A friend told me all about it and when I heard it....I laughed.
Now, forgive my insensitivity. I laughed because I thought he was foolish. I don't know what bothered him but if he tried to take his own life because of something as silly as getting dumped, then he is the biggest dumbass to ever grace the face of the earth.
I don't get it. Why do this thought even cross people's mind? Why do they do it? Stress? Maybe but it's still not a solid excuse. In fact, nothing is.
Some might tell us, tell me to be compassionate with these people, victims of this horrible thought but it's hard to sympathise with these people when they have something going on for them compared to others. At least they have a life.
Fine, their lives might not be as blessed as one might hope for but at least they have a chance to make it right, to turn it around. There are probably a million other people out there trying to survive, doing their best to live knowing that they have the slimmest of chance to actually achieve it but we don't see them jumping off a cliff now do we?!
Part of me do empathise with him but another part - a major part - of me thinks he's stupid, silly, idiotic for giving up. I sympathise with his family for having to go through the terror of this whole mess but I don't pity him, I just can't.
Maybe he thought life is a friggin' bed of roses and when reality finally hit him, he cracked. If he can't take that, maybe he will need all the luck that he can get to ever get on with the rest of his nearly wasted life...
[Sorry if this entry offended anyone. It's just something I feel strongly about.]
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