Any 24 hour helpline is worth keeping imo. Sometimes all it takes is a voice. One would be enough but I donât even know if there is one tbh.
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Thereâs at least two 24 hour phone lines.
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Theyâre based up this part of the country. I know we did a fundraising cycle for them before and the schools etc. have done fundraising.
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Thatâs a rough one in Carlow. News like that would shock you to the core.
Seems to be getting younger and younger 
Thatâs one way to do it 
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/skydiver-who-died-after-jumping-35168291
This is beautiful Jade, Damarell, 32, pictured with her proud mum on her graduation day.
Jade sadly lost her life last week when she failed to successfully deploy her parachute when she took part in a 10,000 foot skydive.
Sadly, the authorities have confirmed that Jade took her own life and deliberately didnât deploy her parachute.
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Powerful. Fair play to him.
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I like Stan but guilt tripping is only effective at preventing suicide, not preventing a personâs pain that makes them suicidal in the first place.
Itâs also true that some people âinterveningâ, even loved ones, may make things worse as they may be either ill equipped to deal with the situation or have a propensity to be judgemental and make things even worse.
Itâs also true that for a minority of people suicide is the best answer as there is no real way forward, and in a tiny minority of cases the person continuing to live may result in a much worse situation for everybody. Some people have no real interest in living or at least no real interest in functioning.
Stan talks about life sentences for those left behind but as far as genuinely suicidal people are concerned, they themselves are trying to escape a life sentence, and trying guilt trip them into remaining alive merely comes across as selfish.
There is no one size fits all solution and in some cases there is no solution at all.
People who are genuinely interested in the subject should read r/suicidewatch on Reddit or the Sanctioned Suicide forum. Itâs often hard for suicidal people to properly verbalise their mindset, but anyway.
Yeah, thereâs a lot of sense in there. The selfishness of the act, is beyond comparison.
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You really get the impression some lads here missed their vocation as 1950s priests.
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A simplistic take.
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A knowitall take, what a wanker
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Entitled to his take as much are others
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Most that do it see it as the ultimate selfless act
They do. Theyâd be wrong but then theyâre patently not in a right mindset. I say well done to Stan for being brave enough to speak out.
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He hasnât a clue what heâs talking about.
Stanâs last line here sums it all up. Suicide is a deeply emotive thing and there will be many differing opinions, and many or all have their validity. But it all comes down to that simple last line.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/stan-collymore-only-my-mums-voice-1702539
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There was a lady on the radio this morning talking about her husbandâs suicide
She said that suicide doesnât take away the pain, it just moves it on to others, and sheâs right, but putting yourself (assuming your mental health is OK) into the shoes of somebody at that low an ebb and trying to reason it out is pointless, knowitall behaviour
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Not his first time saying this either.
Colm Parkinson is a gold plated wanker.