Teen suicide attempt

Cam · 10-06-2002, 09:01 PM

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This is kind of scary, not so much because of the suicide attempt, though that is scary, but because of how so many users responded. Thanks God for people like Jennifer Martini.
Now I wonder how this is going to be received. Is it going to provoke an attack on online communities, or is it going to be seen as a positive, especially considering a suicide attempt was averted.

Griff · 10-07-2002, 06:24 AM

Makes you doubt they had any "community" at all.

vsp · 10-07-2002, 08:54 AM

Periodicity: a few months. This kind of thing happens fairly frequently, including at least one moderately-famous webcam girl who's pulled the "Bye y'all" stunt at least once. MUDs and other online games (read as: chat rooms for slow typists) know this phenomenon well.

They say that most suicide attempts are thinly-disguised cries for help. Well, where better to direct those cries than to a bunch of people who have nothing better to do than log on, chat and hang on your every word?

<i>
And you think it's about time that you died
And I agree
So you decide on suicide
You tried but you never quite carried it out
You only wanted to die in order to show off
And if you think you're gonna bleed all over me
You're even wronger than you'd normally be
</i>

(The Specials, "Little Bitch")

wolf · 10-17-2002, 12:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by vsp
They say that most suicide attempts are thinly-disguised cries for help.

Well .... actually a cry for help would be someone actually saying help ...

True, not all people who attempt suicide actually intend to die. Some of those people do.

For the ones who make a serious attempt and surivive? Chances are that they will try again. Probably within the next year (often within two weeks of discharge from a hospitalization.)

If someone REALLY wants to die, no amount of intervention will stop them.

10-06-2002, 09:01 PM	#1
Cam dripping with ignorance Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Grand Forks ND Posts: 642	Teen suicide attempt Teen Saved This is kind of scary, not so much because of the suicide attempt, though that is scary, but because of how so many users responded. Thanks God for people like Jennifer Martini. Now I wonder how this is going to be received. Is it going to provoke an attack on online communities, or is it going to be seen as a positive, especially considering a suicide attempt was averted. __________________ After the seventh beer I generally try and stay away from the keyboard, I apologize for what happens when I fail.

10-07-2002, 06:24 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Makes you doubt they had any "community" at all. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-07-2002, 08:54 AM	#3
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	Periodicity: a few months. This kind of thing happens fairly frequently, including at least one moderately-famous webcam girl who's pulled the "Bye y'all" stunt at least once. MUDs and other online games (read as: chat rooms for slow typists) know this phenomenon well. They say that most suicide attempts are thinly-disguised cries for help. Well, where better to direct those cries than to a bunch of people who have nothing better to do than log on, chat and hang on your every word? <i> And you think it's about time that you died And I agree So you decide on suicide You tried but you never quite carried it out You only wanted to die in order to show off And if you think you're gonna bleed all over me You're even wronger than you'd normally be </i> (The Specials, "Little Bitch")

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