Max, Kimon: No I havn't read the book but the problem I was having with the book and the person who wrote it is that she brought it up like it was meant for society to accept suicide. I may have mis-understood that part or I might not have, I dunno, but it pissed me off at the time.
Also they showed the book on the news, it's like the thinnest piece of crap I've ever seen, which prolly means there's not much info in that thing. It makes me think she wrote it just because it's a controversial subject and would make the news with it, but I could be wrong of course.
And no I generally don't have much respect for people who end their own life because something at some point isn't going the way they want it to go. I'm not talking about depressed people, it's sane people jumping off bridges I don't get. Like some dude who just lost 500 million in the stock market and decides to hug a moving train. Seriously if losing money is a reason to kill yourself then no-one should be standing in your way IMO.
Kimon: I'm sorry you experienced something like that up close, but that situation does in a way prove the point I'm making above. Next to the fact that it could just have been a cry for attention (of course I dunno the details of the incident) I think it's just STUPID to try and kill yourself over a single moment in your life. Sure it sucks to break up with someone but killing yourself over it is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
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