Do you know anyone who has been touched by these tragedies?

Holy Crap, ZOS23xy.......that's a shitload of stuff to have survived !!


It gives me an odd attitude. I tend to have views others do not understand, they having not been "given" the same sort of experience.

I'm not a pessimist either. I tend to think there are ways to have a good positive outlook even in dark areas. I have also talked people out of suicide.

By the way, in viewing some of the commentary, I'm surprised by the amount of anger generated over responses to typographical errors. Considering the thread line and its inherent darkness, hostilities over misspelled words seems kind of non sequitur ish, perhaps revealing more about the posters than they realised or desired.

Take care guys.

Someone I know peripherally committed suicide yesterday. No lie.

Eerie.

My cousin's son drowned 8 yrs ago when he bumped his head & fell into a pool.

My brother's daughter died of cancer just a few days shy of turning two. That was 18 years ago and they have never recovered from it.

i said suicide and thats all im saying about it.

You never recover from losing a child. Whoever "they" are say time heals...it doesn't. Everyday when you wake up, you are confronted all over again that death is the reality.

Why do you feel you have to ask these questions mem? Between this and your rape poll...do you like making people feel bad? I'm sure that people who have had loved ones die or were raped are fully aware of it and don't need to be reminded by you.

PS...you post this thread, which is in very bad taste and really quite nosey of you. Then you get mad and insult someone that you have offended!? Go and take your medication. Preferably an overdose!

that (highlighted) is not a kind thing to say, but I understand that you are very upset. I am sorry that these two polls upset you so much. From your member name I imply that you are very frail. So agian I apologize.

Yes I am nosey and curious about life. The rape poll was anonymous. I was curious (nosey) about another thread that talked about gay men getting raped. That's why I posted it with different categories.

this poll was interesting to me. I see that a majority of deaths is suicide, followed by car accident.

I am lucky that these are the only 2 that have toched my life.

My childhood friend's aunt was killed by a drunk driver (in the late 70's) by a head on collision. (she was the only one who died out of 5 people in the car)

Last year my cousin's husband commited suicide. He had been caught cheating. I heard the story second hand from my sister. My cousin was driving one day and she saw her husband leaving a motel with another woman. She said she had felt that my dead grandmother spirit (sharing being a fraternal boy/girl twin with her) had told her to go to that place.

She later ended up in a car behind the two of them. When she called him on his cellphone and asked where he was, he lied to her. She said oh, really "I am behind you". I guess that she did not want to continue the marraiage. Luckily they had no children. But she is now alone.

He was only 39. He was missing for days, they found a charge for a shotgun on his credit card and they found him in his car in an old abandoned factory which he had work in. They think he went there because he was happy when he worked at that place. (I've never told anyone else this story before)

I'm not frail at all. I possess compassion. I wouldn't like to make people relive or have to think about "tragedies" they've already experienced. Maybe if you had compassion you'd think twice about the kind of invasive questions you ask.

I Was, And Am Proud Of It, A Combat Medic In The " Nam ". Yeah, I Have Seen And Still Live The Memories Of Death.

I have "known" many people who have died...