That's what I was thinking. Either getting flack OR feeling personally responsible for that loss to MSU. This is so sad.Must have been getting a lot of flack about the loss to Michigan State. One of his last actions was to retweet Tua's tweet about Hurts.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Most of us, if not all, have lost someone in this way.Good friend of mine chose to end his life last week. Totally unexpected and terribly sad. RIP Neal
My deepest sympathies to you and your friend's family. Sad to hear this.........Good friend of mine chose to end his life last week. Totally unexpected and terribly sad. RIP Neal
Well put, and I echo these sentiments. It is a terrible thing when someone, especially someone so young, chooses such a permanent solution to a temporary problem.A parent's worst nightmare. May he rest in peace, and may his family find solace in the love and support of their community.
Really sorry for your loss, aldo.Good friend of mine chose to end his life last week. Totally unexpected and terribly sad. RIP Neal
I don't think less of you, but depression is not what you think it is, and when suicide is driven by depression, it has nothing to do with weakness.Suicide is for the weak.
I don't think less of you but I can tell you that you have ZERO clue what depression and anxiety can do to the mind.Suicide is for the weak.
Suicides simply make me angry. I not going to victim-blame the young man, or speak ill about him, but how do you value life so little, that you throw it away so easily?
I really do apologize for being cold, heartless and angry. If people want to think less of me because of this opinion, then I'm can live with that. But suicide will ALWAYS make me angry. (unintentional hulk reference)
Sympathy and prayers goes to the family.
May Hilinksi find in death what eluded him in life......Peace.
I'll just repost this here as apparently there are those who have never dealt with the hopelessness of the depressed, either directly or indirectly.
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
- David Foster Wallace