BREAKING!! Kid Kills Himself On Stage

[Disco Pickle]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/04/17/2011-04-17_teenager_stabs_himself_to_death_onstage_at_open_mic_night_in_front_of_shocked_cr.html?obref=obinsite

kid gets up and sings a song called "sorry for the mess" then stabs himself to death.  

ENCORE!

disclaimer: I realize I'm probably a horrible person for thinking this is funny.  Doesn't change the fact that I do.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/04/17/2011-04-17_teenager_stabs_himself_to_death_onstage_at_open_mic_night_in_front_of_shocked_cr.html?obref=obinsite

kid gets up and sings a song called "sorry for the mess" then stabs himself to death.  

ENCORE!

disclaimer: I realize I'm probably a horrible person for thinking this is funny.  Doesn't change the fact that I do.

[Disco Pickle]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

[BabylonHoruv]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

The sympathy here shouldn't be aimed at the suicidal kid, he got what he wanted.  It should be aimed at his friends and family, shit sucks for them.

[Slyph]

Well, the suicidal kid too, really. After all, it's a kid, who's suicidal.

[Disco Pickle]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

The sympathy here shouldn't be aimed at the suicidal kid, he got what he wanted.  It should be aimed at his friends and family, shit sucks for them.

oh, for them I've nothing but.  He's left his family and friends with nothing but a horrible story as a last memory.  For that alone, I say fuck him.  Fuck him in the face.  

Also, the people in the crowd, complete fucking strangers that have to live with that scene their entire lives.  It's a shit thing to do.  

His family will be stuck with this image for the rest of their lives for this one selfish act.  I have nothing but sympathy for them.

[Salty]

Hay now waitaminute, I'm sure I done sawed this thread before.
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You gotta read all them threads now fellers, everone.

[Bruno]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

My personal stance on suicide is that nobody consents to being born, therefore, no one is obligated to continue living unless their actions have caused other people to be born against their will.

[Slyph]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

The sympathy here shouldn't be aimed at the suicidal kid, he got what he wanted.  It should be aimed at his friends and family, shit sucks for them.

oh, for them I've nothing but.  He's left his family and friends with nothing but a horrible story as a last memory.  For that alone, I say fuck him.  Fuck him in the face.  

Also, the people in the crowd, complete fucking strangers that have to live with that scene their entire lives.  It's a shit thing to do.  

His family will be stuck with this image for the rest of their lives for this one selfish act.  I have nothing but sympathy for them.

It's not something that wants endorsing, but shit, You have to wonder what fucks someone up that bad.

[Disco Pickle]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

My personal stance on suicide is that nobody consents to being born, therefore, no one is obligated to continue living unless their actions have caused other people to be born against their will.

I lean toward the absurdist view on it:

For some, suicide is a solution when confronted with the futility of living a life devoid of all purpose, as it is only a means to quicken the resolution of one's ultimate fate. For Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus, suicide is not a worthwhile solution, because if life is veritably absurd, it is therefore even more absurd to counteract it; instead, we should engage in living, and reconcile the fact that we live in a world without purpose. Suicide, according to Camus, is merely avoiding the Absurd, instead of living in spite of it.

[BabylonHoruv]

yeah, I know.  I just have little sympathy for people who choose to end their lives.  It's a cowards way out, and possibly the most selfish act any person can take.

My personal stance on suicide is that nobody consents to being born, therefore, no one is obligated to continue living unless their actions have caused other people to be born against their will.

I agree,  with the caveat that once the person is considered an adult you can still of yourself.

However it's remarkably inconsiderate to do it in front of a crowd and it would be generally more kind to withdraw from networks of friend and family before taking the easy way out.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hay now waitaminute, I'm sure I done sawed this thread before.
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You gotta read all them threads now fellers, everone.

I'm really just pointing out that this is hardly "breaking", because it's a week old and everyone discussed it over beer last Sunday.

I feel like we ought to have SOME standards, sometimes.

[Salty]

Oh I agree completely.

There are threads. We read them, participate. We make new threads.

OR we spag shit up to the max.

ETA: I lol'd at your posts.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Excellent.