Originally Posted by splatbass

I'll tell you why you are an asshole POS. Because you have no idea what they go through before they make that decision.

I once spent more than an hour on the phone trying to talk someone I was very close to out of suicide. She wouldn't tell me where she was. She took a full bottle of prescription sedatives. I listened to her get to where her speech was so slurred I could barely understand her. After she was so out of it she thought it was too late to save her she told me where she was. I was able to call 911 on my cell while still talking to her on the landline. She was unconscious when they got there. At the emergency room they couldn't tell me for hours if she would live. It was a very close call, but she did live.

In better times she was as rational as anyone. At the time of the suicide attempt she was beyond all reason. She was a completely different person. Until you have seen this for yourself it is hard to understand.

I hope you have enough humanity to try to understand that when they are in that condition they are nothing like the rational person they usually are. If you are unable to try to see that and try to have some empathy and understanding, try to have some humanity, then **** you, you truly are an asshole.