Comments on: Gone From This World

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:36:25 +0000

It really, really, really, really bothers me when people call suicide selfish. It’s selfish to call suicide selfish. Like, you’re alive, you choose to be alive, and as Victor Frankl says, are you WORTH your suffering? The crushing trauma of losing someone to suicide (for me, I don’t even have to know the person to have it upset me deeply) has got to be unimaginably horrible, but we are alive, and thus, we have chosen to take on the task of, at the very least, processing things like this. Suicide comes from a million different sources, and how could one being ever hope to measure one against the other? However, I believe there is one thing in common with people who are suicidal: Hopelessness. For someone to call it selfish, to me, is an act of selfishness.

By: Ebeth

Ebeth — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:40:22 +0000

Hi-

I just came across your blog not really knowing anything about it or you. I came to read this post and makes me realize we are meant to read some things accidental or not. My older brother was a quadaplegic for 20 years. He was in a car accident at the age of 24 and after 3 months of marriage. He for the most part had a pretty good sense of humor and tried to live his new life the best way he could. His wife stayed with him until the end and took care of him everyday. He decided the last time he got really sick again from chronic respiratory problems he had been having that he did not want to live anymore. He was given a feeding tube and that was one of the last enjoyable things for him (eating). He had enough of this life and wanted to go and didn’t want to tell us until right before he was given massive amounts of morphine to die. My parents of course didn’t want this for him and my Dad will never understand or be ok with it but I always understood not that it makes it any easier when you love someone. Thanks for posting this…

By: bengshie

bengshie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:11:27 +0000

chrissie’s blog deeply moved me.

thanks so much for sharing this, sister wolf.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:50:07 +0000

Wow, what an incredible blog to read.
I am moved by Chrissie’s words, her pain, and her consistent suffering.
Everyone should be given the right to die with dignity.
Thankyou Sister Wolf, for sharing this. <3

By: ali

ali — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:55:39 +0000

kiss to your broken heart.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:50:17 +0000

Jessica – I don’t think it was selfish – he must have felt there was no other choice, even though he was wrong. I accept the hug, with no creepiness points whatsoever!

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:47:51 +0000

cantsay – Hang in there for your kids. You are already brave, every single day. xoxo

By: cantsay

cantsay — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:07:25 +0000

I find myself a different person with a different outlook due to my circumstances for the last 15 years. Now when I hear of people and situations that are sad I wonder why it happen to someone who wants so badly to go on and live. Why these deaths didn’t happen to me or someone who doesn’t want to go on. I don’t think I can kill myself because I have kids although there are times when nothing really matters. But…if I could exchange places with one of these brave people who fight on and have so much to live for I would do it in a heartbeat. When I hear people say that something is not fair I agree with them but for the opposite reason. I don’t need or want another 20 years. Someone else who needs it or wants it more should have it.

By: candy

candy — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:42:43 +0000

I forgot to say sister that you are much love over here too. blessings to you and your family.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:57:20 +0000

I just learned of a friend from highschool who shot himself in the head. He was a handsome, kind and LOVED person. He just finished law school and was engaged.
I can’t stop wondering why a person with so much to live for would do such a selfish and horrible thing. I know there are many reasons for someone taking there on life, but this one seemed unjust (?). I just can’t wrap my mind around it and it breaks my heart when I think of his family.
Even though I don’t know you, it breaks my heart to know what you must have (and still are) going through. I wanna give you a hug. (10 points for creepiness! i know)