From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!gh
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: Re: drivel
Article-I.D.: brunix.1549
Posted: Tue Feb 15 10:01:14 1983
Received: Fri Feb 18 06:54:53 1983
References: rabbit.1127

In defense of Enid Brown against the accursed rabbit!bimmler:

Preventing a suicide by invoking arguments of what it would do to the
survivors is perfectly reasonable.  After all, the conventional wisdom
is that many/most suicides are in effect acts directed against the survivors:
"Look what you drove me to; I hope this makes you miserable for the rest
of your life".  Making a person feel loved and wanted is important!

As readers of this group should know, being dead doesn't hurt (even if dying
does).  What hurts is not being dead.  To prevent a suicide, that's what you
have to try to change, and the strategy used for that must depend on the
individual.  I don't know if Enid did the best thing or not, but she was
there, she knew CW, so we have to trust her judgment.

It all makes me want to run right out and join the Samaritans.

	Graeme Hirst, Brown University Computer Science