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Facebook Launches Suicide-Prevention Effort
adeelarshad82 writes "Facebook launched an initiative that gives users who have expressed suicidal thoughts the option to connect directly with a crisis counselor via Facebook chat. Facebook doesn't troll the site in search of those who might be suicidal; with 800 million users who generate billions of posts, Facebook's algorithm could easily misinterpret comments. Instead, the new initiative is dependent on people speaking up when they feel a friend might be in danger."
Why is it a good thing? If people want to commit suicide, then we should let them rather than try and talk them out of it.
If suicide has ever crossed your mind then I wholeheartedly encourage you to go through with it. You're not special, you're not unique, you're not important; and if you require someone lying to you saying that you are to motivate you to keep living then just blow you fucking brains out already. I've known hobos who have nothing to live for but they keep living anyway because they appreciate life. If some prick has such a low appreciation for life that they want to off themselves, then that's probably what's best for them and everyone else.
And yes, I've known people who have committed suicide. Known people who attempted and later regretted it. That doesn't change anything (I know someone is going to give me some cry-baby reply about how their loved one committed suicide before I get modded down to -1 for pissing all over the stupid ass 'life-is precious' values so many cling to). To paraphrase George Carlin: I've got too much shit to do to commit suicide.
"From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom."
I am addicted to opiates, this year I first lost the love of my life to suicide, then my best friend to an OD, then my grandma to a stroke and finally my dad's cancer has come back, this time metastizing. My life is a complete trainwreck right now, but I cannot inflict this kind of pain onto the people who love me and care about me - so yeah, best facebook related news in a long time. If you find yourself holding a gun to your head while already having the syringe with a 100mg dose of Ultiva pressed to your vein standing on a bridge with a rope around your neck like me half a year ago, just wanting to die so bad... Think about the other lives you are about to fuck up and do the only thing even remotely able to help your situation: cry out for help! Talk to somebody! Anyone! I am 25 and don't know how I will ever be able to smile again, but suicide is just the cruelest action you could ever take against the people loving you.
Hell, if you need somebodY to talk and noone else is there, email me at neofaschistoide underscore banane at web dot de
Just don't do it, please! I am still completely ripped apart inside a year after she died :/
Look, this is the internet, no one cares.
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