(01/10/2010 02:39 AM)S7* Wrote:  ^ Still shows how much he valued his life. Yes it was a spoon move from his roommate but there's got to be a line between your social life and your LIFE.

Like I said, stupidity from all concerned.

I don't know... already discussed this story with one of my homosexual friends, and his immediate response was "I probably would have ended up doing it too." I've had many unbelievably stressful events in my life, but I have always had SOME control, and had some way in which to rectify the situation, but as I posted on another forum:

"I think it is pretty foolish to think it would be easy for that student to ignore all the criticism, all the judging eyes, all the shame, whether it is worth being shamed over or not... Such unbelievable pain, I can see someone getting to the point where they consider the pain unbearable, and there appears to be no way out. I have not experienced what he has, but I have entertained extreme thoughts, such as suicide."

And who knows, he might have had major depressive disorder, or dysthymia, or some other depressive disorder. Maybe you are right, and he'd always been told how little his life meant, and as a result he did not value his life (though, he appeared to be doing a lot more with it than I am with mine...)

I guess my point is more that I think everyone has a breaking point. Depending on faith, on cultural expectations, or really any number of variables, such an act is not unthinkable in my mind. Ignoring the "suicide is selfish" argument, I'd say it was purely the ridicule, the lifetime of therapy that would be needed to even allow him some semblance of a "normal" life.  I don't know... I guess I just don't see such a breaking point as unfathomable. Just my opinion though.