posted ago by Formerlurker92
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He was 22. He had been fired from his job as part of cost cutting measures. He didn't reach out for help. He was found this afternoon, no note.
He was only an acquaintance. But I don't know how to respond aside from shouting at the void.
This needs to stop. Fast. And there have to be real consequences for the liars that made this happen.
He was 22. He had been fired from his job as part of cost cutting measures. He didn't reach out for help. He was found this afternoon, no note.
He was only an acquaintance. But I don't know how to respond aside from shouting at the void.
This needs to stop. Fast. And there have to be real consequences for the liars that made this happen.
Very sorry to hear this. We should all try to keep an eye out for people who may be feeling hopeless, and just make an effort to connect with them and help them keep things in perspective. Especially people in your "only an acquaintance" category, because they may be the ones who don't have any strong relationships to lean on in tough times -- some of them may be "only an acquaintance" to everybody they have regular contact with.
Young adults may be especially at risk, as they have no personal experience going through really bad patches in national and/or world history and coming out okay when it's over. Plus the idiotic education system has turned so many of them into "snowflakes" with little resilience, and they haven't had time to figure out how idiotic that mindset is and redevelop themselves.
I feel hopeless very often. I only have a few people in my life and the amount of pain I go through in my mind is too much for people. Lost most of my friends over it. Have had to walk away from a lot of people too because I can't seem to talk about the things happening in the world without it triggering people. It's psychotic.
One of the few things that gives me hope is coming on here and seeing all the positivity and high energy. I try to contribute but there's just not much good happening in my life. And here lately, there's been a LOT of negativity and stuff on this site that has just dragged me down in every way imaginable.
Honestly I just want to be happy. I want to make others happy. I'm trying to gravitate towards the higher-energy crowd and all, but I am who I am. Honestly I'd rather be alone than change who I am to make others happy. I hate living in a world where I can't be accepted for who I am while being expected to do the same for others.
OK SELFISH RANT OVER.
Now for the positive part. I love coming on here and seeing all the good stuff people post. I use the New sorting to see what's going on, but I'm so thankful to you guys for making all the positive stuff appear at the top of the Hot tab. It gives me hope for the world when I don't have much left myself.
I'm sorry your acquaintance went out that way. It sucks when someone is in so much pain they think self-deletion is the only way out. One of the people I had to walk away from talked about suicide and divorcing her husband and the pain in the world SOOOOO much and as a human I just wasn't strong enough to bear that. I love her to death, she's one of the few people in this world who didn't outright judge me and that I could tell things I couldn't tell anyone else. And now she's not in my life anymore. It sucks. But you gotta know that people make THEIR own choices in this life. Just as I choose to be who I am despite all the suffering it causes me, that woman I called friend chose to withdraw instead of come together...and your acquaintance chose to take his own life. If we're gonna get anywhere in life we have to be honest, even when it hurts and isn't convenient.
LOVE IS HOW WE OVERCOME, AND THERE CAN BE NO LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH.
Hang in there, sunwolf. These are especially difficult times for people who tend towards depression and pessimism. But it is temporary. The overdone pandemic-related restrictions will end, the economy will rebound, and the domestic terrorists will trigger a backlash that sends mainstream society back to a reasonable degree of sanity. In the meantime, try to have fairly regular contact with other humans, even if only for very short interactions, and try to get some fairly regular exercise, even if only 20 jumping jacks. These two things really do make a difference in brain chemistry, and very small doses help a lot more than many people realize.
True. We had a robbery in my apartment complex where the victim was tailgated by the robber. No one else seemed to have seen it or called the police. I think people just don't care.
Sorry, Pede. It's monstrous. All collateral damage to their lust for power.
I've lost two friends to suicide from the forced isolation of the "lockdown." Don't know anyone who has been hospitalized, let alone died, from the China virus.
The median age of death from covid is like 85, with an average comorbidity of 2 contributing ailments.
Mourn.
Let the sadness in.
Eat it.
You will be stronger.
Sometimes all you can do is pray for strength to bear the burden of living in this fallen world.
It is not yet time to bear arms in defense of our country. Soon.
You can even pray for the end; you won't be the first. But be open to God's plan for you- it may involve many years of learning what you're supposed to do.
God bless him and may he Rest In Peace. Had a teenager in my family hang himself last week. Coworker lost his son a few weeks ago. 22 years old.
This is a predictable outcome. I started a post about this right when the lockdowns started because it was so foreseeable. Call your peeps. Check in on people. There is a lot of evil in the world.
https://thedonald.win/p/FMABRBMW/we-may-be-in-a-rare-moment-where/
Pretty sure I had it. Haven't caught a bug, cold or flu, since I was a kid. But I was out of commission for a day and a half, in bed with a fever and a terrible headache and chills and ridiculous amounts of sweating. Then I felt fine.
But yeah. The bullshit global economic shut-down will have ramifications that last for decades. People like you're talking about, will be dying from this lock-down, 20 years from now.
I'm just not 60 years old with multiple co-morbidities.
I believe the vast majority of people go asymptomatic.
Which is normal for a flu or cold. Most cases, you never even knew you had it.
I predict only quadriplegics will be in nursing homes in a generation. After seeing this shit, none of us are going there. Better to die at home, or on the street, with nothing but strangers, than in prison.
My friends kids are struggling with elearning. Not going well. The younger ones have to sit on zoom for hours not learning. The older ones want to be at school with their friends.😞
Not to mention it’s awful. May work ok for adults but it’s bedlam for young kids.
My wife's 78yo father is in a nursing home. He has ALZ coming on and on some days he doesnt understand why he cant leave or why we cant come in. He went there to recover from a broken foot in January, caught covid there, beat it in the hospital, back in quarantine in the nursing home where they keep getting infections popping up. We havent been able to see him without windows between us while we talk on the phone outside looking in since fucking January. Its fucked.
So sad. Sorry to hear this.
3 for me. Fuck you china!
Blame democrats, socialists and comminists.
It’s all their fault.
Reach out to your younger friends and remind them that things change, and that a year or two is nothing in the long run. I constantly coach young employees to slow down. A year is a long time when you're 22, but when you're 42, it's a blink of the eye, and 22 seems like yesterday. This poor guy will never see the rebirth of America.
And, if we're gonna go down, we're gonna take some of them with us, right? Never stop fighting.
A year or two is 1/36 of your life, 1/32 of we take out childhood. Fuck you and ANYONE who thinks this ISNT a big deal. You call people on the edge with that "logic" and you'll be cited in the note.
I'm sorry.. my friends sisters kid kept a dairy and started to drink heavy and took his life last month as well.. too young and I feel for ya
Sorry for your loss. One of my best friends did it 5 years ago. Be there for his closer friends if you know them. R.I.P.
Yes. When the only choices seem to be isolation or joining antifa losers that must be terrible.
I feel like everyone is suffering through different amounts and stages of depression because of the lockdowns.
I know two people who have gotten COVID. In Los Angeles. They recovered. They're fine. I know maybe three other people through extended friends that have gotten it. They have immunodeficiency problems. They, through I think ventilators and isolation, have tuned out fine. Luckily nobody I know has been lost to suicide.
Also, if you or loved ones are considering suicide, please don't. It gets better. Life gets better. Please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255). Even calling a friend can help.
Call up your grandparents and ask them if they know anybody who has died from covid.
People will die if the lockdown continues. People will die without the lockdown. Those who deny either are allowing their bias to cloud their judgement.
Absolutely. The Germ is no bueno for the old and obese. Let them lock down. Let these kids live. This shit is ridiculous.
It ain’t gonna stop until we make them stop. Their guidelines for opening up are shit tier stupid. They are starting to base it on number of infections. We all know that’s horseshit. We need to stop them and when they try to hide when it’s fuckin obvious as fuck they fucked us on purpose we need to find them and make sure the world knows who they are and what will happen if anyone tries this again.
Me too
Remember this when you vote. Forever.
Arrrgh!!! My heartbreaks for all the loss. Prayers for those gone and prayers for justice & accountability from those with blood on their hands...Talkin' to you dems in leadership...you and your ilk are responsible!!
We reached the annual male suicide benchmark in March of this year. A LOT of men are committing suicide from April to the present. He is not alone.
RIP Brother.
Me too. I know an artist who was in his 60s who jumped off the roof of his apartment building 2 months ago. A quirky unique individual who highlighted the beauty in the world.
So very sad to hear. May he rest in peace. Prayers up for his soul and for all those who knew and cared for him.
Sorry to hear this.
I also don't know anyone who has even been confirmed to have had covid.
Same here pede..except it was my brother I lost. Only 24 and one of the most talented men I knew. He had been sober for a year and was doing really well until Cali shut down his workplace and isolated him alone at home.
I will never forget what they have stolen from us and will do whatever it takes to help re-elect Trump and take this country and our freedom back.
I'm so sorry about your friend. This lockdown needs to end. I had to get out for a bit bc I can feel it mentally draining me as well. Picked up a few hobbies. Shit, even ordered a lego set and I'm 40 years old, just to keep my mind busy. I've only known one family that has had Covid. Their mother didn't do too well. She is alive, but they think she had a stroke while being sedated and put on the vent. Like she lost all her memory of being a mother, thinks it's 1993 and still in the army. It's very, very odd, and sad.
Dude legos are awesome though. I sat down and built a super sweet space shuttle last night with my son. Im almost 40 and I love lego!
Tragic. Sorry. Consequences are for us. NEVER them.
If there are no significant consequences for the traitors I can't forgive trump. Trump can find a cure for every disease on earth solve world hunger and bring peace but if they don't go to jail it's all for nothing.
Every once in a while a snitch pops up in my community trying to commit defamation against citizens, and it's been really bad ever since this COVID bs began. Today I found an article on our local Patch, in the neighbor submission area, where some "new resident" was basically doxxing another resident and committing libel against them while also mentioning things like the person's marriage status, and even showcasing their IG account and photos (which included photos of their kids). All of this was under the pretense that the individual being smeared wasn't wearing a mask while enjoying an outing on their pontoon boat with family and friends over the labor day weekend. The moderator wasn't even trying to budge on it either, and this jackwad teaches podcasting at American University.
I've been warning people about this recently, and it bears repeating: People need to start hitting these cyber stalkers and bullies with lawsuits, in order to clamp down upon this nonsense. Suicide is very real, and the more we see people being bullied, losing their jobs, losing hope, etc., the more we'll be seeing an ever greater loss of life due to the negative factor of other asshole humans as opposed to this virus itself.
God help us all - and God, help us help each other.
I am sorry for your loss. I personally know 2 people who have contracted covid. My coworker who was in the hospital for a week and my grandfather who passed away from it at 94.
As the election draws ever closer I am starting to hear the same things from customers as I did in 2008. Mainly "we want to wait and see how the election turns out". In 2008 Obama won and I knew it was slowing down so I went to my home town for the Thanksgiving to New Years break. The week after Thanksgiving I received a phone call from a years worth of customers that they are canceling the project. In the end we all know how it all went. The project's either never happened or they happened a good 5 years later. I can't tell you how many people I know died from either drugs, drinking, or suicide it was more than I want to know. For many people out there the world moved on and things have never gone back to how it was before.
This election is a fight for our lives and our way of life. What ever happens just remember it will get better at some point and make it a priority to communicate with your friends and relatives that you are there along with many others if they need help.
RIP
Sorry for your loss pede. Same thing happened at my job. But he gave every warning and all about this stupid shutdown. Nobody gave two shits unfortunately.
I have struggled with my mental health, even with therapy. My friends are college non-revenue sport athletes whose season got postponed so I may or may not be able to hang out with them (I saw a few of them for a few minutes at church a few weeks ago) as I graduated and I am not in the bubble anymore.
The thing that keeps me going is that they’re like sisters to me and although we don’t Zoom, the ones I’m closest to we still talk on social media. I’m staying afloat as of right now and I am on my current medicines that have helped me a lot since before COVID.
Now if an EMP comes, I will not be able to take it because that would take me away from my friends permanently. We need to get our military to invest in restoration after EMP attacks and EMP preventions.
Me too. Someone I considered an uncle-the brother of my mom's ex-husband. Loved that rascal. Had known him for most of my life.
2 time Purple Heart with Agent Orange exposure. Fought the VA for years for disability due to the health problems he had from the direct exposure.. Finally, after more than 20 years got what he had been due. He was literally spit on when he returned from Vietnam.
Was in a facility due to health problems with little to no human contact for over 2 months due to quarantines. Facility lifted it and he fell down some stairs going for a meal. Was transferred to a rehab facility and told he would most likely never walk again. Apparently, no one checked his stuff and he had a gun with him.
I still can't wrap my head around it. I am truly sorry for your loss.
I’m at 6 Covid deaths, all someone I know knows someone, and 4 suicides, all friends of friends.
Two Covid were a father son. Both extremely obese with diabetes and severe heart disease. Neither were nursing homes.
I had it, about a week ago - tested positive at an urgent care. It was basically like having the flu for a week; bad headaches, fever, very weak. My personal opinion is that it's ridiculous we've shut the country down over this; healthy people should have no restrictions and expect that they may get sick, vulnerable people should quarantine and protect themselves.
I finally know someone who tested positive. And he had to be tested to know.
Every single one if them must hang, or be dropped from a helicopter.
Some of my employees had it, some clients had it. All under 40 and complete recovery. My 78 year old father had it. He had other issues too and made a full recovery after a month in the hospital. My friends 78 year old father died from it. He had no issues. It mainly affected older people with other history
So sorry. No words.
I know 2 slightly distant neighbors who died due to being deprived of operations they needed, one of whom was in his ~30s or 40s, but I know 0 people who even had severe symptoms. I know however that I had mild symptoms one day in March and that my family isn't too sure about even having a bad day either.
While I was convinced for a long time that all of this was a Wuhan bio-lab mistake by incompetence, I grow to be more convinced that all of this was intentionally orchestrated.
Remember the video with the Chinese guard who fell over? It was FAKE. Nothing like that happened anywhere else. Remember how the media shifted their narrative 180° overnight? Seems well coordinated. And why would they push so vehemently that "it's just a flu" for so long? And Nanthy Pelothy with her dance in China town bullshit? And what about Big Tech's relentless and vicious censorship about ANYTHING that defies the narrative supported by governments (with very few exceptions)?
It's a plandemic indeed. The entire mainstream media in the West, the CCP, the Democrats were on board on this. We got mixed signals: One said it's nothing and don't worry, the other said it's a lethal disease that will kill a lot of people. They maintained that up to March.