Funny? Tragic? Despicable?

joggerjayne | 08:54 Fri 06th May 2011 | ChatterBank

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Not sure what to make of this.

A woman posts on Fakebook that she has taken an overdose, and is going to die.

She is faking it (depsicable).

She has a fatal medical condition, of which she is not aware (tragic).

Not long after pretending she is going to die ... she dies.

http://www.theargus.c...hen_died_hours_later/

FAO salla

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She lived in Warwick Mount.

That's a big, high rise, block of flats.

Quite close to it, there are some nice, Regency style houses.

But Warwick Mount itself is a bit soul destroying.

Ankou

missnem, i certainly wasn't expecting any 'wailing in abject sympathy for this woman'

but the "accusations of; not understanding mental illness, not being in touch with reality, not having a clue, being seriously cold etc etc etc." stemmed from the very first post.

missnemesis

Of course her death isn't "Funny" JTH, no death is however it comes about.
"Tragic" definately - for all sorts of reasons and as for "despicable" yes I do think her (continual) behaviour was despicable. Even though as it turns out she died of other causes her intention was to cause worry and alarm for those around her, that's despicable IMO.

ummmm

As Ankou says....no one with the smallest understanding of mental illness would say something like that...Then for the person who said it to claim they have suffered mental illness...that makes it cold. IMO...

andy-hughes

Again from personal and counselling experience, i can confirm that there are no 'rules of behaviour' for suicidal people.

Just because someone constantly threatens suicide does not mean they will never carry it out - that is a popular and untrue misconception.

Just because someone shows no disecerable suicidal behaviour, even after close post-fatality analysis by family and friends, is no indication that an individual is perfectly safe and OK.

To sum up - we are all human, we all act and react individually, so 'rules' simply do not apply in this, or any other case.

This was, and remains a tragedy, and to apply some level of arbitrary judgement based on very basic facts and no personal knowledge is high-handed and pompous, and does the view holder no faviours, even when expressed on here to another group of total strangers,

A woman has died in tragic circumstances, that is very sad.

Anything beyond that - in terms of deciding a level of blame / responsibility based on arbitrary moralising is simply redundant - and leaves a nasty taste.

The moral high ground is looking particularly crowded this morning ...

Ankou

"her intention was to cause worry and alarm for those around her, that's despicable IMO"

to which you are entitled, but did she deserve to die for it ?

missnemesis

Of course not Ankou, at no point did I say she did.