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Published On: Jul 15, 2008 11:16 PM
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Published On: Jul 15, 2008 11:16 PM
Suicide
Soundtrack: "Everybody Hurts,"
R.E.M.
Someone killed himself yesterday.
Even now, that little smartass part of me is burbling away "Of course someone killed himself today. Probably more than one." So to clarify,
Someone here at my base killed himself yesterday
I don't know who he was. I have no idea if I might have talked to him once, or once a week, or every day.
I have no idea if I could have said anything to make it not happen.
Understand, if you can, that that's not an attempt to take blame. This person made their own decision and, as I've blogged before, I respect their right to end their life. I don't like it, and I'd like to think that they could be talked out of it.
On occasion, with my job, I have the opportunity to help stop suicides. Sometimes a message comes in from a family member, who got a disturbing phone call, or a disturbing email, or (just the other day) a disturbing text message. I notify the command, and they go out and find the person and stop them. In an ideal world, anyway. Or at least, an ideal world where people kill themselves, which just doesn't make much sense. Regardless, it was that kind of ideal world the other day, and that person was stopped. The one yesterday, though...
I didn't get a message on this one, and I didn't even know about it until today. I'm not going to post any details, because they're not mine to share with the world. By the time this is posted, it will be about a month after the fact.
How does a heathen worldview incorporate suicide? Any ideas?
Someone killed himself yesterday.
Even now, that little smartass part of me is burbling away "Of course someone killed himself today. Probably more than one." So to clarify,
Someone here at my base killed himself yesterday
I don't know who he was. I have no idea if I might have talked to him once, or once a week, or every day.
I have no idea if I could have said anything to make it not happen.
Understand, if you can, that that's not an attempt to take blame. This person made their own decision and, as I've blogged before, I respect their right to end their life. I don't like it, and I'd like to think that they could be talked out of it.
On occasion, with my job, I have the opportunity to help stop suicides. Sometimes a message comes in from a family member, who got a disturbing phone call, or a disturbing email, or (just the other day) a disturbing text message. I notify the command, and they go out and find the person and stop them. In an ideal world, anyway. Or at least, an ideal world where people kill themselves, which just doesn't make much sense. Regardless, it was that kind of ideal world the other day, and that person was stopped. The one yesterday, though...
I didn't get a message on this one, and I didn't even know about it until today. I'm not going to post any details, because they're not mine to share with the world. By the time this is posted, it will be about a month after the fact.
How does a heathen worldview incorporate suicide? Any ideas?
Posted: Fri - June 13, 2008 at 01:54 PM |
