I've been dicking about on Facebork today. Each time I go there, I get reminded why I'm not there as often as I used to be.
I participated in a conversation after the friend posted his version of an announcement of a celebrity suicide.
From Google
I got annoyed at this post:
I commented, received a reply, gave another reply and then went and blocked the guy. I don't have time for people with no empathy. Life is too short.
Here's the post I wrote about the incident.
The world is full of fucknuggets today - or maybe my tolerance for bullshit is at a low ebb.
This is a post I saw and took great exception to. I also took exception to the conversation. I've redacted the names to protect the idiots.
Blocked Friend: The world lost a great chef and personality today. You will be missed Chef Bourdain, but fuck you for taking the pussy road out!
SS: What?! Anthony Bordaine offed himself?! How was hanging?! Im telling you man someone is offing celbs amd making it look like suicide
Blocked friend: Dude! Cornell, Chester, and now Bourdain. I'm running out of celebrities that I actually like. Thank God Ozzy is immortal.
SS: Im serious man theres a celebrity serial killer
SS: He was the oonly thing on CNN i enjoyed watching!
Blocked Friend: He was the only TV chef I watched.
SS: Truly a master of our art and he will be missed
Michelle Gent: 'Pussy'? Depression is a devious killer. It makes the sufferer believe their loved ones would be better off without them. It's not a coward's way out, they kill themselves for their loved ones. Sufferers kill themselves in a mistaken belief that they are doing what's best for their family.
You don't know who is suffering depression just by looking at them, they can be laughing one minute and in the next, they're gone.
I'm certain this message will not change your way of thinking, but I do hope your friends or family that see how you regard suicide will not think too badly of you because you're mistaken.
Blocked Friend: Permanent solution to a temporary problem. You hurt and leave your loved ones because you don't like yourself. Yes I meant pussy
Michelle Gent: That's a shame then. I've just battled with both my kids and their depression because of illness. I'm thankful they listened to the doctors rather than the 'Black Dog' and they took medication rather than their own lives.
Sitting with them both on separate occasions, hearing that the thoughts of suicide had crossed their minds and that they were convinced it would be better for all concerned if they took their own lives was the hardest thing I've had to hear.
It was harder for them to admit to it.
I hope you're never in the position where you hear such a confession.
Unfriended and blocked.
Just gimme a good reason...