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David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide
snydeq passes along the news that David Foster Wallace was found dead Friday at his home in Claremont, California. Wallace's wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home at 9:30 PM Friday. The novelist, essayist, and humorist, best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, was 46. Wallace had been awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1997.
Why didn't he do it sooner? If you reply to me you will only make me stronger.
Why would someone miss someone egoistic and ungrateful that he commits suicide not caring about anyone else but himself in his wasteful pity?
Apparently you never had anyone close to you commit suicide and therefor cannot understand why I consider people who take suicide willingly complete egoistic and ungrateful morons.
Those who commit suicide because they are mentally ill (schizofrenic, and such) and do not know right from wrong are excluded from this definition as they cannot possible be blamed for this utterly stupid and ultimate egoistic act.
That's one less spigot for the nihilistic cooler-than-the-room crap that passes for modern literature today to flow from.
Wbat a sniveling little punk. I hope Wallace's face was purple and he had shit himself thoroughly when his wife found him hanging from the rope. That'll teach her to marry such a weak and pathetic loser.
When you come home an realize someone you care about committed this act without letting you help,
Feeling guilty because you know deep down you missed some hints, some clues, your chance to stop it? Then just blame somebody else, and so it loudly, to drown out the crying inside you that you try to hide because you are complicit in their death.
Unless you meant, "help them commit" suicide, making sure they do it right first with minimum pain, in which case, carry on with the good work.
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...I consider people who take suicide willingly complete egoistic and ungrateful morons.
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When you come home an realize someone you care about committed this act without letting you help,...
Assuming you're the same anonymous coward in both posts, you wouldn't have been much help.
The general advice on suicide prevention websites is not to try to talk someone out of committing suicide. Listen, yes. Take them seriously when they say they are suicidal, yes.
But don't pile on the verbal abuse about how much they will hurt their family or how stupid they are. Chances are, low self-image is a big part of why they are suicidal.
All in all, you're lucky you didn't have a chance to try to talk them out of it - because then you would feel even more responsible than you already do.
Whatever. I'm sure his wife really appreciated coming home to find her husband dangling like a pinata. Oh well, maybe now she can actually get dicked by a real man instead of a depressed, self-absorbed tool. Hell, he couldn't even try to stage it to look like an accident so that his wife could at least benefit from any life insurance that he might have had. Like I said - selfish bastard. One less of those makes the world a slightly better place.
"It's difficult to seek help when you're ashamed of your feelings... Nobody is an 'egoistic coward' for feeling suicidal."
For feeling - no. For doing - yes. By your own admission the person's ego is too big to allow them to seek help. Hey DFW, say hi to Mumia, Saddam, Stalin, Chairman Mao, Che, and Hitler for us."