Junior Seau dead, probable suicide

Originally Posted by Literature

Is that really what our only options are, here? I had an uncle commit suicide two years ago, and although I don't "accept" it, I know that in the last days, he was not the same person I had grown up knowing. He was not himself.

Sorry for the loss of your uncle. I'm not about to smear your nose in his death. Enough said.

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Sorry for the loss of your uncle. I'm not about to smear your nose in his death. Enough said.

I didn't mean to end the discussion, which I think is an important one to have. I only meant to say that I didn't feel I had to either curse my uncle as being a selfish person, nor did I have to think suicide was okay or acceptable way of ending a problem.

Originally Posted by Literature

I didn't mean to end the discussion, which I think is an important one to have. I only meant to say that I didn't feel I had to either curse my uncle as being a selfish person, nor did I have to think suicide was okay or acceptable way of ending a problem.

That's probably a healthy place for you to be in grief. Stay there.

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by Phobia

That's probably a healthy place for you to be in grief. Stay there.

I'm not in grief, but it does appear to be a healthier place to be rather than a presumptuous mode of choosing either one or the other of two absolutist default modes of judgment.

Originally Posted by Literature

I'm not in grief, but it does appear to be a healthier place to be rather than a presumptuous mode of choosing either one or the other of two absolutist reactions.

As said earlier, my stance is a hardline one and I do it consciously. I do it for accountability for myself and the ones I care about. I'm not unique in how I feel. I'm just more verbose and secure about it than other people.