Re:Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
by cowpewter on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:21AM
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Suicide means an end to all pain and consequences for your actions though (or at least consequences you will have to deal with yourself, as you will no longer exist), and dropping everything and just walking away means you will still have to deal with the consequences of walking away, and the pain of picking up the pieces afterward.
Re:Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
by stephengillie on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:27AM
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The downvotes speak for themselves. This advice is too unclear to be helpful, and too general to be useful. Instead of giving general advice and feeling better, we should try to dig deeper, and resolve the actual problem. As far as the other person wants help, at least.
This could mean switching careers, getting divorced, cutting ties with friends, moving far away, or a combination thereof. After all, suicide would end all of those things too, in a worse way. So if you were willing to do that most final and extreme action, why not just say screw it and start driving? After all you'd have nothing to lose compared to suicide.
In some cases just the realization that one can make changes is significant.