Teaching the future scum of the world to encourage suicide

Originally Posted by Capo

I thought this was just some /b/ joke. Even if it's not, I really don't care. It's not like she'd have the determination and courage to go through with hara-kiri.

Why hara-kiri? Does she think she's even worthy of the ritual? Yes, it's suppose to be done by disgraced warriors, but seriously she's not worthy of the ritual.

Frankly, I'm sick and tired of all the "I am teh luuzer! Noone lieks me! d00d, I will comit inernet suicide, taht will show those lozserz!" Lots of people feel like killing themselves, but wanting to go all-out over the internet instead of just a single shot to the head is just being an attention-whore. Nothing wrong with telling a few people in your journal in order to vent, but trying to make it into some huge fiasco is pathetic.

What she is doing is trying to worry people and get fake attention with the whole "I'm not worthy enough to be more than a lazy attention-whore, but I am worthy enough to die a dishonorable hero's death." All she's doing is scaring innocent people who have caring natures, distracting people from work or school by controling their interest, and making herself look more insane to where when she lives she might have less of a chance at a good job/life b/c people will think she's psycho.

If you want attention: get good grades, break school records, or solve world hunger. That way, you can enjoy the fame and fortune longer without the worry of dead Japanese warriors kicking your butt in Hell.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Rakka

I do worry about these kinds of stunts, though, because they make people cynical, so that they assume that people who actually suffer from depression, who are actually on the brink of suicide, are just attention whores. Between the nasty assumptions that everyone seems to draw (even I'm guilty of this to some degree) about depression, and the fact that our culture doesn't even seem to consider mental disorders as diseases, it's amazing that anyone seeks help for any kind of problem that they have. I've suffered from bipolar disorder for years, and I've come very close to suicide before...if my friends, family, doctors, etc. had told me to get over it, or attributed all of my problems to angst, I probably wouldn't be here right now.

I understand where you're coming from. However, most of my friends that were serious about suicide went on-line and ranted in their journals about how they were going to slit their wrist b/c life sucked. This situation seemed little different b/c it was basically a shout-out on the internet and she was claiming to webcam live in some ceremonial style used by disgraced Japanese warriors. A simple cry for help would've done, she didn't need to turn it into a circus.

Actually, there are a lot of problems--such as despression, anxiety, etc.--that are listed as mental disorders. A lot of symptoms that were listed as normal or lifestyle choices decades ago are starting to be considered disorders/diseases: low sex drive in older people, obesity, insomnia, etc. The government is starting to consider homosexuality as a kind of mental disorder, which I disagree with, but you try making any sense out of government these days.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Yamamanama

If Japanese soldiers could do it, then anyone's worthy. Aztecs found suicide before capture to be extremely dishonorable. Not that I support her decision. Personally, I find it utterly pathetic and contemptable that people are trying to turn this into something for their own entertainment.

Aztecs found it dishonorable? Hmmm...I guess I can see why since they needed hearts from living victims for sacrifice. I was thinking about Roman and other cultures that found suicide to be an honorable act of courage. Which that form of suicide wasn't really honorable, but it was mostly saved for the warriors who were honored but did something to become dishonored. Unless I was taught the wrong meaning of the suicide.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.