suicide issues

I was reading this thread... http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239474 and while trying to think up a tasteful way to make a joke along the line of "too bad he went and shot himself..." That thought took off like a well propelled ping pong ball, bouncing around and...

Hey. I want to know how big this project is getting in terms of national awareness. How many religous leaders in the US are still insulting LGBT people like this guy : https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=945. Could someone please explain to me why they...

There has been a disturbing rash of teens committing suicide over the past month because of bullying. The majority of the suicides were caused by ******** targeting these kids because they were gay. This led Dan Savage to put out a video, and request other do the same, describing how life gets...

Terry Practchet is delivering a lecture on the subject tonight: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/01/terry-pratchett-euthanasia-tribunals I'm absolutely for this - with sufficient safeguards of course. Perhaps only for people with a terminal/degenerative illness like end stage...

Why do states tend to be so reactionary regarding "right to die" issues? We all watched with disgust the posturing of our social critics and legislators over the Terri Schaivo episode, and earlier but similar cases as well. They are going through much the same sort of thing in Italy; they...

This I did not expect: Although it was argued that suicidal people will just find some other way to kill themselves, other methods are much less likely to be successful than a gun, which has a 90% success rate. What guns do is make crimes of passion frighteningly easy. People who buy guns...

story So, this guy tries to organize 32 others to commit suicide on Valentine's day. He has been arrested for solicitation to commit murder. Now, I don't understand the logic behind this. People want to voluntarily kill themselves. I think that is really nutty, but why should it be illegal...

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin23/bulletin23-2.html What are they doing wrong? Perhaps a Mommy Goverment is too much to bear? Clearly their environment is not as conducive to ongoing existance as it might be. We can only look on in our smug, superior way.