Comments on: Thoughts on Suicide http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/09/29/thoughts-on-suicide/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ivan Ivanovich http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/09/29/thoughts-on-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-74072 Ivan Ivanovich Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:38:55 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/09/29/thoughts-on-suicide/#comment-74072 Thank you Aaron This is an interesting subject and one that is seldom considered in this type of forum. Ernest Hemingway was another unfortunate suicide and a sad one in light of his works. It seems that the Conservative view is to condemn suicide, but the Libertarian one is to allow personal decisions. I suppose it is a question that will not be solved on this earth. Thank you Aaron

This is an interesting subject and one that is seldom considered in this type of forum. Ernest Hemingway was another unfortunate suicide and a sad one in light of his works. It seems that the Conservative view is to condemn suicide, but the Libertarian one is to allow personal decisions. I suppose it is a question that will not be solved on this earth.

]]> By: hydroexcavation http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/09/29/thoughts-on-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-74057 hydroexcavation Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:14:28 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/09/29/thoughts-on-suicide/#comment-74057 Mr. Goldstein: I am not a psychiatrist, nor have a degree relating to psychology. I think I might be able to help with one of your questions. "They believed they had nothing to look forward to, and nothing to keep them alive...not the warm embrace of a loved one". Pardon me for cutting a well-written phrase to isolate a part of it. My experience with depression appears to show a lack of the concept of love. It is, as though, it simply isn't there in the psyche of the depressed person. Other emotions can be quick to well up and surge forth, but Love is like...opening a door to an empty closet. not only is nothing there, but the depressed person doesn't even know what it looks like. Again, I'm not asserting this as a new theory or a reason for acceptance. And fromw what I have seen it can be irritating when people try to show love directly TO the depressed person. I am aware that some people do not understand depression, and I think this is similar to the way certain depressed people do not understand love. When you hear "I just don't know why you like/love me", you have heard the clear warning sign. In my opinion. Mr. Goldstein:
I am not a psychiatrist, nor have a degree relating to psychology. I think I might be able to help with one of your questions. “They believed they had nothing to look forward to, and nothing to keep them alive…not the warm embrace of a loved one”. Pardon me for cutting a well-written phrase to isolate a part of it. My experience with depression appears to show a lack of the concept of love. It is, as though, it simply isn’t there in the psyche of the depressed person. Other emotions can be quick to well up and surge forth, but Love is like…opening a door to an empty closet. not only is nothing there, but the depressed person doesn’t even know what it looks like.

Again, I’m not asserting this as a new theory or a reason for acceptance. And fromw what I have seen it can be irritating when people try to show love directly TO the depressed person. I am aware that some people do not understand depression, and I think this is similar to the way certain depressed people do not understand love. When you hear “I just don’t know why you like/love me”, you have heard the clear warning sign. In my opinion.

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