Suicide

[turfcutter]

The vast majority of people that I know who have taken their own lives had it all to live for too, it’s really hard to know what causes it I have heard some vile stuff come out of people looking for answers to what has happened trying to some to terms with it

@caoimhaoin

Honestly, i think is what happened in a situation i know of. Without getting into the details, it all kinda points to just a sudden decision, becuase the guy in this case was open and living a good life, a very good life in fact, had health & wealth. Its just when i heard it i read into it a bit, and while it is pretty much impossible to know anyway without notes or a clear diagnosis, other people and psychologists around the world believe it as well.

I suppose living in the city and working in the city means i would hear of the corporate type suicides. Was a local young fella from a parish near me alright who died recently, and his friends and family put the blame very much at the door of Garda bullying.

[Flano]

It’s unfortunate that a Garda has the surname Bullying, that could lead to all sorts of misunderstandings.

[Sidney]

@Thrawneen

I read in the Herald a few days ago that 3 lads were pulled from the Liffey in separate incidents the week before last. (At the risk of sounding crass I was reminded of the Withnail and I “throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness” quote…)

I’m always confused as to how people commit suicide throwing themslves into the Liffey. You’re not going to be killed by the impact, it’s not as if you’re jumping off the Golden Gate bridge or anything.

[Flano]

@sid waddell

I’m always confused as to how people commit suicide throwing themslves into the Liffey. You’re not going to be killed by the impact, it’s not as if you’re jumping off the Golden Gate bridge or anything.

The Liffey is poisonous.

[Sidney]

@Flano

The Liffey is poisonous.

I’ve swum in it numerous times and didn’t I turn out grand

[farmerinthecity]

@farmerinthecity

There is a village beside me in Leitrim that has an incredibly high suicide rate for the size of the population.

One family in partiular lost two members to suicide. The first was a young lad, maybe 17, who attended a rave, took drugs and couldn’t handle the come down.

His sister, who was engaged at the time, was entertaining friends and was found dead the next morning.

Like so many other things, education is the key. Everybody hurts.

Another suicide in this village in the last few days - a 21 year old lad this time.

Tragic.

[farmerinthecity]

Another suicide around my neck of the woods last week. He had cancer but couldn’t handle it. Left behind a wife and few kids.

The Offaly County Coroner has said that suicide is rampant and is a really serious situation in Ireland at the moment.

Dr Brian Mahon was speaking in Tullamore during the hearing of inquests this morning into the deaths of five people through suicide.

He said the situation appears to be particularly serious in rural areas, where there seems to be an increase in suicide deaths.

Evidence was given during this morning’s inquests on the deaths of five men in separate incidents.

[KinvarasPassion]

Such a tragic subject.

I am sitting here in my house on the Clare/Galway border and I am within 1/2 a mille of 3 separate houses that have been affected by suicide in the past 5 years. Our village is badly tainted by this, each had their own valid reason but the people left behind will spend their remaining days in silent mourning.

And lets be open about here, we have all had our bad days but somehow there is an inner strength thats pulls the majority of us through till things pick up again.

Maybe its a chemical imbalance, maybe its a troubled childhood, maybe its financial but in the end I think that inner strength just runs out.

We had a suicide less than a mile down the road 2 weeks ago and over the weekend there was an attempted suicide a half a mile away. The victim is seriosly ill in hospital.

It sends a chill down my spine to think about it but our local area is plauged by suicide.

We have an heavily staffed office in Ballina looking after road saftey spending a small fortune on national advertising each year and yet nothing is doen to address this silent killer.

[Lazarus]

Propietor of Fibber Magees hung himself in the run up to Christmas, only 34. Made the news years ago for being the first to be fined after the ban on smoking in pubs became law. Fined 10,000 but milked the publicity for all it was worth, Kevin Myers even did a piece labelling him a hero.

[farmerinthecity]

We had a suicide less than a mile down the road 2 weeks ago and over the weekend there was an attempted suicide a half a mile away. The victim is seriosly ill in hospital.

It sends a chill down my spine to think about it but our local area is plauged by suicide.

We have an heavily staffed office in Ballina looking after road saftey spending a small fortune on national advertising each year and yet nothing is doen to address this silent killer.

The silence of any policies from political parties in the run up to the election, in the general mental helth area, is deafening.

[The_Runt]

Christ this case sounds terrible

02/03/2011 - 15:33:44
The body of a man has been found at a cemetery in Adamstown in Co Wexford, it was revealed today.

The remains were found close to the grave of a young woman who was buried yesterday.

Gardaí say they are not treating the death as suspicious.

The area has been sealed off and the body has been removed to Waterford Regional Hospital for a post mortem examination.

[caoimhaoin]

Ah Jesus, i got an awful pang reading that. Sounds a bit like the case in Galway recently.

[Flano]

Of all the places you’d expect to find a dead body it would be a cemetery surely?

[caoimhaoin]

Flano letting himself down again. Let me tell you, i DID minus you.

[Flano]

@caoimhaoin

Flano letting himself down again. Let me tell you, i DID minus you.

:rolleyes:

[count_of_monte_crist]

@The Runt

Christ this case sounds terrible

yeah heartbreaking stuff, the bird died from a brain hemorrhage completely out of the blue last thursday. they had just moved in together. he took his life at the graveside

[caoimhaoin]

I can’t get this out of my head since i read Runts post. Its just horrible.

[Thrawneen]

Did anyone mention the African lad in Kerry who killed his Polish bird and then jumped off a cliff, leaving his 2 year old nipper to fend for himself?

[twiceasnice97]

@farmerinthecity

The silence of any policies from political parties in the run up to the election, in the general mental helth area, is deafening.

theres no votes in it.

if people gave a toss about mental health or were in any way grateful for positive moves made by a politician the good people of laoise offaly would have returned john moloney to the dail but instead they chose sean fleming and barry cowan one more useless than the other. i was as thrilled as any honest man watching the soldiers get their comeuppance but john moloneys frank admissions while a junior minister in this area regarding depression in his personal life did him great credit

[Mac]

Hate seeing this thread being bumped even though I’ve posted in it so much. This Adamstown case is messed up badly. My sisters sorta knew the girlfriend who died. That was tragic enough. What the boyfriend did was absolutely terrible. It’s hard to even try put it into words what the 2 families must be feeling.

As terrible as it is to say, that Kerry case is possibly one of the most cowardly things I’ve ever heard of, if reports are true.