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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
I know. It's called "the Internet".
I agree with your sentiment but did you ever think that maybe calling them out, calling them "losers" and "selfish", IS in fact helping future suicides? It's called Tough Love and there simply is not enough of it in today's society.
Often times a suicide is doing so to seek attention, the infamous "cry for help". Maybe if they realize that the kind of attention they will get by harming themselves is NOT the kind they crave they won't kill themselves. They think it will bring sympathy, sadness, revenge, and they will be missed and loved. Instead if they think they will face retribution and eerision they WILL seek the help we both want them to get.
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I'm pretty sure most of them realize killing themselves will hurt their loved ones and those around them. The desire to end their life, however, is a stronger feeling. To me, saying negative things and giving them "tough love" isn't going to help, it is only going to further hurt those left behind.