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That's an odd way to kill yourself. Are investigators sure that it was a suicide?
A woman jumped from her SUV driven by her husband and containing her kids on I-75 just a few miles from where we were today. We were on our way home (Northbound) and heard that the highway was shut down a mile south of where we were but no one reported at the time why. The local news just reported what actually happened.
I have always heard that suicides are at their highest this time of the year but its usually people who are alone with no family
what a great holiday for those kids and their father. maybe the information will come to light as to why this happened but that woman sure must have hated her children to do something like this
I'm suspicious - we know nothing so maybe it wasn't a suicide. . . who knows.
Even for people with families, suicides are higher around this time of the year because of expectations. People, because of the media, expect the holidays to be perfect... full of joy and happiness. Life can be good... but perfect? No. The high expectations people place often causes immense disappointment... hence depression and suicide. I know I've been very busy over the past few weeks. In fact... I have to take an emergency phone call right now.
well more reports claim that the police have ruled it a suicide. we have a seatbelt law in Ohio and it appears that she might have unbuckled right before this. its pretty damn hard to fall out of a car even without a seat belt on unless
1) the vehicle is struck severely (not the case)
2) or you jump
I have been driving for 36 years, have near a million miles behind the wheel as a driver, several hundred K more as a passenger and I cannot recall ever having a car door open unintentionally while driving nor have I ever seen a door open on an interstate on another car though I do note that when I was 5 or so (I know I was under 6 because it was at my grandmother's house and she died when I was six) my youngest brother-than 2 or 3 opened the door as we were pulling out of her driveway and fell out-he didn't want to leave grandma.
Even for people with families, suicides are higher around this time of the year because of expectations. People, because of the media, expect the holidays to be perfect... full of joy and happiness. Life can be good... but perfect? No. The high expectations people place often causes immense disappointment... hence depression and suicide. I know I've been very busy over the past few weeks. In fact... I have to take an emergency phone call right now.
I know how holidays can bring out a lot of dark things in people. I went to the store for a few things and it was so crowded... everything sold out. It was ridiculous and there were people with empty shopping carts blocking all the aisles, just staring at shelves... nobody employees were there to answer where they moved their usual items for all the seasonal crap. I so just wanted to scream out, "get out of my ****ing way and move your ****ing cart." It was so annoying and stressful. I hate the holidays because of stuff like that.
Could be anything, but I'd bet on it being related to money or infidelity. It's a sad thing no matter what the reason. I mean the kids, those lives are ruined.
many drivers have serious cases of cranial-rectal inversion syndrome around the malls this time of the year. Two days ago a woman turning right in front of me was looking right rather than at the road behind her as I was rapidly approaching the side street where she decided to pull ot of without even seeing the traffic. fortunately I had
1) brand new tires
2) a recent brake job
3) and extremely fast reflexes for a 52 year old (at 20 I had the fastest reaction time [tested by hitting a button when you saw a light] of any athlete tested that year at the USOTC at Colorado springs)
and was able to avoid ramming a lexus going 45 miles an hour into the driver's side of a chevy driven by some woman with a serious case of such a disease.
she looked like ET had jumped on her hood when I slammed on the AL brakes and hit the horn and swerved around her. totally dazed and confused
Very sad especially for the husband who has to bring those kids up alone, nothing more selfish than suicide
I know how holidays can bring out a lot of dark things in people. I went to the store for a few things and it was so crowded... everything sold out. It was ridiculous and there were people with empty shopping carts blocking all the aisles, just staring at shelves... no employees were there to answer where they moved their usual items for all the seasonal crap. I was eventually boiling over with anger and stress. I so just wanted to scream out, "get out of my ****ing way and move your ****ing cart." It was so annoying and stressful. What should have been 15 minutes of shopping was 45 minutes of walking around, bumping into strangers, and waiting in line. I hate the holidays because of stuff like that.
not always true. I knew a guy who had ALS who killed himself. It saved his family from having to both see him waste away for another one or two years, and the expense of round the clock nursing care.
My dad died after a year long battle with a cancer he contracted from smoking that was in his sinuses, throat etc. He gradually lost his ability to speak, then had to have a trach tube, which caused a massive MERSA infection (the tube put in at the ER room was not properly sterilized according to his main doctor) that ultimately killed him. Four days before he died he wrote a note saying "Give me your Beretta". ( the gun I carried at the time) I wouldn't but I can understand how some people would want to end a no win situation under somewhat their own terms.
I wouldn't have seen a suicide by my father at that time as selfish
On the other hand, my mother contracted pneumonia a year later and refused treatment despite the fact that even with COPD and a poorly healed shoulder fracture 6 years before she died, she still had pretty good quality of life. I really was bitter when she died because she took from my son his only remaining grandmother and unlike her other grandkids-two of whom lived thousand of miles away and another two who really didn't like going to her home (she was a smoker and it really bothered them) He really enjoyed her company and spent hours each week with her and he had a hard time dealing with that especially after he saw his grandfather fight hard to stay alive until (as I noted) four days before he died and after the doctors told him that they could not stop the infection
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