RE: suicide and you

Subject: RE: suicide and you
From: Sean Draine (seandr@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 01:52:19 EST

You have an astounding amount to live for! Never before has the world known
such an abundance of things to live for until you were born. You have more
to live for than Jesus Christ. Mathematicians calculate and recalculate on
their supercomputers, unable to believe such a staggering sum exists. If
half that amount were distributed to the rest of the world, all forms of
violence would instantly cease. Scientists estimate that the amount you have
to live for could power the sun for 12 billion years.

Although I don't have nearly as much as you, it's more than enough to keep
the average person going well into their nineties. And yet...

-Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Z. Brooks [mailto:invertedforest@angelfire.com]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 7:20 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: suicide and you 

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Louise Z. Brooks
"Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4%
evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy Wonka

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:40:03   Sean Draine wrote:
>
>I assume that most bananafishers (and even
>most nonbananafishers) have at some point or 
>another had suicidal ideations. Perhaps you 
>lost a job. Maybe you were summarily dumped 
>by a loved one or teased by the rest of the 
>class. Perhaps you've even been sucked into 
>the vortex of major depression. Surely, though, 
>at some point, you have seriously contemplated 
>permanently closing up shop.  
>
>Maybe you would not actually do it, but 
>nevertheless, the fantasy of being dead was
>strangely, seductively soothing. (And I'm 
>not talking about those sulky, I'll-show-you 
>fantasies featuring ex-lovers wailing over 
>an open casket.) 
>
>I guess all this is a way of expressing my 
>surprise at the apparent consensus that suicide 
>requires some extreme mental condition. I'm 
>not convinced that it's really so far away. 
>
>-Sean
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