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user-inactivated  ·  3376 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you convince a completely miserable person that the world isn't such a terrible place?

That's a very considerate, deep way of talking about what makes our lives what they are. Thank you for sharing.

Do you think like your response to a suicidal person on the ledge would be wrong? inconsiderate? uncareful? meaningful, or, meaningless? something else?





dullbenjamin  ·  3376 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know -- all I can really say is that I've made a personal commitment to honesty, so I'm sort of bound by that commitment to say what I actually think. So, who knows how inconsiderate, meaningless, or harmful that statement would be to a person on a ledge... but it would be honest.

I just know that if it were me on the ledge, and someone tried to talk me down with some bullshit about how "where there's life, there's hope", I'd rather jump than continue the conversation with that person.

user-inactivated  ·  3375 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And if someone was to come, sit next to you and say "Hey, man. Life's shit, right? Yeah, I know. I've been through this, too" and so on, would you be more inclined to listen?