> "Don" concord.com> wrote in
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>>> "Don" concord.com> wrote in
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>>>>> hartfan84@yahoo.com wrote:

>>>>>> Should a 'suicide bridge' get a barrier?

>>>>>
>>>>> An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

>>>>
>>>> I don't think there's a cure for suicide. Yet.
>>>> But anyway, why should anyone else have a say in whether someone
>>>> decides to end their life?

>>>
>>> The problem is that a barrier is nothing more than a band-aid put
>>> there to make strangers feel warm'n'fuzzy. It's *not* a prevention,
>>> or an intervention, or a help to someone who feels desperate enough
>>> to carry out such an act. It's nothing mroe than a way for people to
>>> *pretend* that they are "caring", when in reality, they don't give a
>>> sh*t, because if they did, they'd be in the person's life, trying to
>>> help out. It's the sdame fatuous beanmbrains who blither on as to
>>> how the person "needs to establish a support system", but then recoil
>>> in disguust, totally hands-off, if the person asks *them* to be part
>>> of that system.
>>>
>>> It is the same exact thing as the quote for m "Apocalypse Now", which
>>> was taken from reality, about pilots being forbidden from writing
>>> "f*ck" on their napalm-shooting, missile-firin', area-destroyin'
>>> gunships because the ****word**** was considered "obscene".
>>>
>>> It's the same exact sort of shitheadedness - put up a barrier, not
>>> because it does any good, but it basically gets it all out of sight
>>> and therefore out of mind.
>>>
>>> People don't want to do what's needed to deal witht he *true*
>>> obscenities - they just want to ba able to live in a lala land where
>>> they can pretend that simply not saying a certain word, or simply not
>>> having to see someone do somehting horrible, makes all of it
>>> magically not exist.

>>
>> Since you're referencing movies (Apocalypse Now)....
>> Someone, I think Richard, mentioned the taxpayers have to pick up the
>> cost of clearing the jumper out of the river/ocean/lake whatever the
>> bridge is on.
>>
>> I'll reference The Outlaw Josie Wales....

>
> Another classic :)
>

>> Josie Wales, after shooting Jerry Seinfelds Uncle Leo

>
> ??
>
> I never watched Seinfeld, sorry, dunno who that is, but I do recall the
> comment:
>

>> slap in the
>> middle of the forehead with that big Walker .44 : "The buzzards gotta
>> eat, so does the worms."
>> (substitute sharks and barracudas for buzzards and worms)
>>
>> So just send the rescue squad home for the rest of the day.

>
> It's an interesting thing, som folks want to have their ashes scattered
> in a particular place, others go for the Simple Alternative (simple pine
> box deal, no embalming, no multi-day wake, etc.), but even if you pay
> thousands of $$ and get a stainless steel coffin appointed with silk and
> ivory and gold, in the end, earth and water have their way. THe whole
> funeral thing is fraught with irony.