I have many vices, but co-dependence is not regularly listed among them, so my response to my friend’s question initially was short. Continue reading “Be selfish, because you always are”
Be selfish, because you always are
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The Second Amendment kills more U.S. soldiers than the Taliban
From 2010 to 2012, more people in the military died from suicide than any other underlying cause. Almost half were people shooting themselves in the United States with their private weapon.
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In an alternate universe, Jack Kevorkian is a rich man
The other day I was talking to someone, and a friend of hers came up in conversation.
He’d killed himself, and he let everyone know why, and it was in its way a very good reason — or at least the sort of reason that came as a surprise to no one.
Someone else said he didn’t have the courage to do that himself. There’s nothing courageous about killing yourself to deal with a problem, but it’s not weak or cowardly, either. The decision to end all future decisions can, occasionally, be the product of a rational thought process.
More often, though, it’s the result of depression, the irrational chemical composition of the brain. Suicide comes at a moment of weakness, a bad night, hitting bottom.
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