Suicide. In general.

[GuitarDaddy]

I've never really thought much about my feelings on suicide until today when it was thrust upon me in the most horrible way. Right after talking to my father on the phone at lunch today he chose to take his own life. He was 86 years old and has been quite ill for the last year or so with chronic COPD and bouts of CHF and had been hospitalized 5 times in the last year. He has been very depressed since my Mom died of cancer in 2006 and had gotten more so as his health began failing him this year.

It's obviously too early to completely comprehend how I feel about it, but I answered the poll "somewhat" as my feeling are currently going back and forth between being extremely sad that he felt so hopeless, and angry that he subjected me my wife and son to such a horrendous ending to his life.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

He was 86, sickly, and depressed, and you fault him for that? I've had multiple elderly family members more or less kill themselves by refusing to eat and drink water. I mean, that sounds kind of dickish of me to say since obviously you are infinitely closer to your father than I was to great uncles and aunts, but death of a close family member is almost always tragic.

 

[HAL9000]

Exactly the case I was thinking of when this topic came up. Your original thread on that suicide was well discussed. To me, that note well illustrates the torment some people can endure for only so long.

I agree, it's awful to read but it's incredibly moving, it will change the way you look at suicide.

 

[Wyndru]

What type of depression are you talking about?

I'm not sure what kind Bill Zeller had, but I know it's been studied and results show that there is a low chance of someone suicidal actually leaving a note. I don't know the actual depressions that apply to this, my Dad had bipolar and didn't leave a note though. I'd have to ask my wife, shes the doc with all of the psych books.