Men turns 60, commits suicide and leave a website as suicide note

Re:Men turns 60, commits suicide and leave a website as suic... by ForrestN on Friday August 16, 2013 @11:36AM (#6224643)

Everything, from the premise to the details. The grandiosity and self-obsession and narcissism, the delusions about his own motives (which were clearly emotional and painful rather than pseudo-philosophical). Even if you take his argument at face value he is killing himself in response to an ailment that he does not have. His using controversially justified ideas of suicide as a cover for self rage.

Edit: I was trying to dissuade people from promoting suicide as an impressively rational response to reaching an age many people consider to be the best years of life. He killed himself, lied to himself about why, and then wrote and painstakingly edited (20 times at least, he says) an massive, elaborate shrine to himself and his own sad death. Yeah, I guess those are both equally narcissistic.

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Re:Men turns 60, commits suicide and leave a website as suic... by Zikes on Friday August 16, 2013 @11:43AM (#6224689)

Writing his own biography is no more or less narcissistic than your thinking anyone on the internet cares about your opinion on his writing his biography.

Lots of people have personal web sites of their life's accomplishments, they call them "portfolios". Lots of people have an online account of their day-to-day activities, they call them "blogs", "tweets", and "status updates".

What Martin Manley has done here is no more or less "self-obsessed" than what you and I do every single day, he only presents it in a manner slightly askew to that with which we are accustomed.

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