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[ussoccer26]

I refuse to let an individual be canonized for suicide simply because he was a Hall Of Fame NFL player. Quite simply I bet the cause will be he was depressed from missing the limelight so he took the cowards way out.

His courage on the field cannot gloss over the fact that in the end he was a coward.

Your the only one looking for limelight. You always pull this crap because you like the attention, nothing else.

No one thinks of Junior Seau as a saint but he was iconic to San Diego and he certainly was dealing with issues that many people struggle. Show some GD humanity mike and shut your trap.

Do you think the soldiers returning from these wars are cowards when they commit suicide? Because they can't escape the horrors of war?

[ussoccer26]

Your point is clear.

You can save the rest of your "salt for open wounds" for another thread. 

Please.   

Sorry MM1

[Frenchfry]

I lived in Monroe for over 14 years.

Sorry people, it takes no balls to commit suicide. It's a cowards way out. Only a true **** would do it. Hoping Seau burns in hell as he desrves no sympathy or empathy.

I'm ashamed to admit it but I used to feel the same way....until a gal put a bullet between her eyes in my closet.
I found her after giving my dog a flea bath...I totally freaked out...cops thought I did it and arrested me...good thing a buddy was crashed on the couch...he said he heard what sounded like a drawer slamming....Detroit cops released me after a couple hours.
The young gal didn't die...they took out half her brain and made her child-like...but the experience changed my outlook forever.

Prior to her trying to kill herself she told me her dad was doing her.
I don't recall the specifics but we talked a long time and she seemed fine.
I never expected anything like that.
Permanent solution for a temporary problem.
Suicide seems so selfish to me...I could never hurt my family like that.
No matter what, if I'm going down, I'm going down fighting.

Maybe you've been lucky and not had someone close to you commit suicide....I suspect if you had, you'd feel differently.
Either way, you're entitled to your opinion.

[Skittelroo]

I'm ashamed to admit it but I used to feel the same way....until a gal put a bullet between her eyes in my closet.
I found her after giving my dog a flea bath...I totally freaked out...cops thought I did it and arrested me...good thing a buddy was crashed on the couch...he said he heard what sounded like a drawer slamming....Detroit cops released me after a couple hours.
The young gal didn't die...they took out half her brain and made her child-like...but the experience changed my outlook forever.

Prior to her trying to kill herself she told me her dad was doing her.
I don't recall the specifics but we talked a long time and she seemed fine.
I never expected anything like that.
Permanent solution for a temporary problem.
Suicide seems so selfish to me...I could never hurt my family like that.
No matter what, if I'm going down, I'm going down fighting.

Maybe you've been lucky and not had someone close to you commit suicide....I suspect if you had, you'd feel differently.
Either way, you're entitled to your opinion.

What a touching and sad post, Fry.  I  am close to tears.  Thank you for sharing this.   I truly am sorry you had to go through this, but grateful for your empathy.

[BigMike]

Touching my butt. coward.

I have known two suicides, both friends and they were simply cowards. Plain and simple.

[ussoccer26]

Touching my butt. coward.

I have known two suicides, both friends and they were simply cowards. Plain and simple.

Sounds like you surround yourself with a lot of weird people BM. People who share similarities and likes usually gravitate towards each other. No doubt you are a coward as well.

[BigMike]

Nope. Never have been a coward and to be honest, providing a suicide has left no heirs it can be a good thing because they are purifying the human race.

[MM1]

I think we're talking apples and oranges as far as reactions go here, because it sounds like the people you lost to suicide didn't mean anything to you and there was no love in the relationship. 

I think that makes a big difference on whether or not you can find any compassion for the pain someone is feeling at the point they do something as extreme as suicide if they don't mean anything to you. 

Is suicide selfish?  Absolutely.   

But to call them a coward is to claim you can climb inside their heads and hearts.  You cannot. 

What you can also not do is convince me you are as cold hearted as you are so boldy claiming here.

Something about "thinks you doth protest too much". 

But go ahead and keep purposely, and somewhat anxiously, hurting people here who have tried to tell you you're hurting them. 

That's very brave. 

[Billy]

I feel for the family. But I'm not sure what to make of the story.