Re:Ecomom's Founder and CEO Jody Sherman Passes Away
by philwelch on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:17AM
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Among other things, the freedom to kill yourself.
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Re:Ecomom's Founder and CEO Jody Sherman Passes Away
by JabavuAdams on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:47AM
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This is something we're going to have to grapple with as a society.
Having been suicidal, I can tell you that to my current mind-state, my suicidal mind-state's rationale was laughably bad. The dangerous thing is that it didn't feel that way at the time. It. Felt. Crystal. Clear.
I'm a smart guy. I don't want anyone telling me that my thinking is flawed. I certainly don't like the idea of someone else coercing me into treatment, given the history of abuse.
That said, suicide would have been a terrible mistake. Perversely, it would have greatly harmed some of those I was trying to protect.