Saturday, December 22, 2012

What she said

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  1. I didn't know that people without some form of mental illness--even if only transitory--killed themselves. I don't think I can take what Ann Althouse says seriously anymore. If she has a backstory about this she should share it, or not say anything. I'm sure her words brought the people whose love ones committed suicide great comfort. Jeez.

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    1. It's popular nowadays to imagine that all suicides suffer from mental illness. Some do, of course, but there is no evidence to suggest all or even the majority do.

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  2. And there's no evidence to suggest that all or even the majority do not suffer from mental illness either. Once the deed is done it isn't possible to get a diagnosis. So, I wonder what the reasoning in their rational minds might be then for taking their own lives, in other words is taking one's own life ever a rational decision?

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