Comments on: Quotables

By: censorthis

censorthis — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:35:17 +0000

yeah, let’s feel sorry for the guy. let’s feel sorry for the people he left behind to sweep up all the bullshit he left laying around, and let’s feel sorry for the person that had to walk in and find him and will always remember it, and let’s feel sorry for his parents if they’re still alive and brothers and sisters and kids and girlfriends. let’s feel sorry for selfish fucks like this guy that end their lives leaving everyone else to try to cope. let’s feel sorry for those that were too weak to persevere. not.

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:55:47 +0000

I agree with Canaduck. Krispy, a person who is willing to kill themselves is a person whose mind is not working normally. It is not your place to judge them, or mine, or anyone else’s. You came through a suicidal patch? Great! So did I. Great! This guy didn’t make it. Let’s not sneer over his illness or his loved ones’ loss. *That* is an incredible sign of weakness.

How about a little compassion and some human understanding? I hope the crustiness is not simply your defence against the return of such feelings in your own life.

By: Lah-Dee-Dah

Lah-Dee-Dah — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:30:55 +0000

@Jamie: Prepare yourself for brilliance. I’m almost jealous of you. I remember when I first “found” him, I couldn’t get enough. Now I can’t find anything left of his that I haven’t read.

By: Canaduck

Canaduck — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:56:53 +0000

Sure, Krispy, you made it (and without medication at that), and so that must mean that everyone who doesn’t is weak and pathetic.

With that sort of attitude, I assume you are also the type to roll your eyes at homeless people and laugh at those wussy little kids in cancer PSA’s.

Hey, I know a couple of people who survived cancer–they did it, so I guess everyone else who dies from cancer is a sucker. Get real. Chronic depression is a disease just like any other, not something you can “will” your way out of.

By: Alex S.

Alex S. — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:43:43 +0000

But Krispy, what you’re forgetting is the fact that David Foster Wallace will always carry a deeper magnitude towards the beauty of life and connections and shit that you will ever muster up your entire life, 20,000 times over. You can pity all you want, but most of us don’t really care.

By: tigerlille

tigerlille — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:25:00 +0000

I am sorry if this offends you, Krispy, but true strength breeds compassion. Compassion is not weakness. Pity? Who wants it?

By: krispy

krispy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:26:11 +0000

I have lived through it. And there are other solutions. Suicide is a incredible sign of weakness.

Sans medication, I came out stronger and I didn’t hurt anyone… Don’t tell me you can’t barrel through it. Because I did.

I cannot pity the fool.

By: tigerlille

tigerlille — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:40:26 +0000

Sadly, those with the greatest insight and knowledge are often that way because they are so close to the edge.

And anyone who is inclined to judge, tell me what you would do with intrusive thoughts that relentlessly tell you to kill yourself, deep depression and deep despair.

If you haven’t lived through it, best to keep your judgements to yourself.

By: censorthis

censorthis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:31:49 +0000

i read this whole post and not once did it mention how to tie a proper noose. do i need three loops and a knot or four. hurry, my chair’s getting all wobbly and shit.

By: Alex S.

Alex S. — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:06:58 +0000

^oops, sorry bout the grammatical errors above^ too sad to grammar check.

By: Alex S.

Alex S. — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:05:37 +0000

Also – I have to say…. it irks me in some unexplainable way when people do a tsk tsk when brilliant but haunted people commit suicide… it’s such a petty smugness contrast against such an enormous force of life, wit, intelligence. There’s always people who do that, and that always bugs me….

By: Alex S.

Alex S. — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:01:57 +0000

DFW was one of my faves. A raving egomaniac, but also brilliant. What a terrible loss. I was actually pushing “Infinite Jest” on my boyfriend last week. I told him it was a must read if you only read 20 books in your life…. I’m bummed too.