I do but only if I can do BIG if I'm going to regret something I want it to be MEMORABLE so my lessons stay learned lol
I'm also not a gentleman. Roughneck till the day I die!!!
Actually, @biancalovecraft, if you hang yourself properly you'll never regret anything ever again. Victory!
@DarrenWalker I do agree, except for the possibility that your eternity be defined by your last moments. I live near a bridge That was the subject of its own documentary. It's beautiful, very picturesque, it winds over the arroyo seco with the San Gabriel mountains lit up behind it And downtown Los Angeles cityscape before it. People love to jump off it, so it's been named suicide bridge as far as most locals know. I'm sure most cities have one. The documentary was just a camera on the bridge that captured people coming in contemplating, and some eventually jumping. All of them regretted it and tried to save themselves in the last moments.
@biancalovecraft: Did they regret it, though? Or did their bodies just rebel against the choice they'd made?
I dunno about you, but even when I really want to hold my breath a long while, I can't. It's not that I regret the decision! I still want to hold my breath! It's just that reflex takes over and overrides my decision—the biological imperatives coded in my body don't care what I want.
So... did anybody ask the dead people, once they were dead, whether they regretted choosing to die in their last moments? (Note that I'm pretty sure dead people don't regret anything, on account of being dead.)
All the suicidal folks I've ever talked with mostly regret having bodies that fight so hard against dying, contrary to their own wills.
@DarrenWalker
"All the suicidal folks I've ever talked with mostly regret having bodies that fight so hard against dying, contrary to their own wills."
Can confirm! ☺️
OK, well that took a turn. Glad we're discussing suicide like it's a laughing matter 😳
@DarrenWalker You make an excellent point! (Backs slowly out of thread while pointing innocently at Kierkegaard)
@BuggleBear: Heh. [rueful shrug] You laugh or you cry.
@biancalovecraft: Kierkegaard is great fun to read, but his unquestioning belief in an unproven afterlife undermines, well... all of his arguments in this area.
If you always know before you do then there is no risk. So do before you don't and live a little.
@biancalovecraft I think I've seen that documentary quite some time ago, however I don't clearly recall all of the details. Wasn't the camera set up for an extended period of time, like a year or so? There were many bystanders who tried to stop those people, console them and tell them their lives meant something? Didn't they actually track down some of the people and interview them after. Some actually just needed to hear from someone else that they were loved and that gave their lives meaning again. I vaguely recall that one guy who wanted to do it and kept going back but could never do it, then near the end of the film they went to conduct a follow-up interview and found out he had done it? Is this the same documentary?