A couple of weeks ago, the bloggers at Flopping Aces discovered that one of their numbers, Chris G., had taken his life. I’d read his posts often, and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Stats show that suicides among the military are at an all-time high.
I believe that there is such a thing as “survivor’s guilt.” However, the most recent data on workplace suicides indicate that this phenomenon isn’t confined to the military.
A good socialist would tell you that this was the result of alienation from the means of production, yadda yadda, but then the question becomes, why are suicide rates so high in socialist paradises? The Yahoo Answers page chooses the best explanation as being the theory that in former Soviet Republics the loss of world status would lead to depression. There may be something to that, but I don’t think it’s pinpointed.
Rather, I think that the explanation is that people feel that their efforts aren’t appreciated. What is the use in excelling if it means only that you keep a job? Competition is, indeed, a terrible thing.
As for Chris, I think that he believed that taking himself out of the running was the noble way out. He was misguided, but I pray that God in his infinite mercy gathers him up.
I read that over at FA about a week ago, one of the saddest things I have ever read. His wife actually comments in the piece and it is heartwrenching. She mentions that she saw he was different and asked him to get help but that he just kept saying “Army says I’m fine”. A couple of weeks later this happened.
Suicide is good business. Publicly traded funeral homes need incremental increases in revenues and earnings to meet growth-oriented shareholder expectations. As any good McChimpy McBoooooooosh Capitalist will tell you, once an Ameircan reads his of her 40l(K) statement and fully comprehend the financial abyss the niggardly and ignorant Republicans left the American economy in, they just want to fuckin’ die, most especially if they voted for Larry Craig.
Let ‘em swing from the door jams. Quarterly dividends rule.
Swing, motherfucker, swing! Swing, motherfucker, swing!
what a bummer – his wife – their kids…
God have mercy on his soul.
Service Corporation International, SCI, $7.40, get you some while the shares are cheap.
Growth prospects lookin’ good, military suicide rates up, capitalist paradise death rates up, rethuglidums killing off people who can’t afford skyrocketing health care premiums, collapsing capitalist economy bolstering depression and death of elderly.
This is an investment opportunity with excellent potential for shareholders.
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