Suicide is just a moment. This is how she described it to me. For just a moment, it doesn’t matter that you’ve got people who love you and the sun is shining and there’s a movie coming out this weekend that you’ve been dying to see. It hits you all of a sudden that nothing is ever going to be okay, ever, and you kind of dare yourself. You pick up a knife and press it gently to your skin, you look out a nineteenth-story window and you think, I could just do it. I could just do it. And most of the time, you look at the height and you get scared, or you think about the poor people on the sidewalk below - what if there are kids coming home from school and they have to spend the rest of their lives trying to forget this terrible thing you’re going to make them see? And the moment’s over. You think about how sad it would’ve been if you never got to see that movie, and you look at your dog and wonder who would’ve taken care of her if you had gone. And you go back to normal. But you keep it there in your mind. Even if you never take yourself up on it, it gives you a kind of comfort to know that the day is yours to choose. You tuck it away in your brain like sour candy tucked in your cheek, and the puckering memory it leaves behind, the rough pleasure of running your tongue over its strange terrain, is exactly the same. The day was hers to choose, and perhaps in that treetop moment when she looked down and saw the yard, the world, her life, spread out below her, perhaps she chose to plunge toward it headlong. Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Carolyn Parkhurst, The Dogs of Babel

(Source: larmoyante)

#suicide  #quote  

Suicide note #1

uglyuglyugly:

I can’t handle living in this world anymore.
I can’t handle being alone on this planet,
nor surrounded by the people on it.

I can’t live with the things that I’ve done,
the things that have been done to me,
and the things that I never will do.

I can’t live with the things I know.
So I won’t.

#poetry  #suicide  #me  #truth  

Suicide note #4

uglyuglyugly:

It’s funny how
Love can go
From being the
Reason you live
To the reason
You kill yourself

#suicide  #poetry  #love  

Before I die

bumbeagle:

For years, I’ve had this tiny treasure chest sitting on my shelf. I instructed my brother, that if I were to die some day, to open it and read everything inside.

It contains all the notes I’ve written whenever I contemplated suicide.

One of them, dated December 26th, 2006 @2:00am, stood out the most. It was written after my family had left me to celebrate Christmas alone, eating leftovers while watching reruns of Friends. I was 14 at that time.

“Don’t they know how depressing it is to wake up and be too tired to do anything? I want to enjoy the beauty of life but I’m too beat up, dragging my sore body around like it’s a punishment to be awake. I should cherish my life, love myself a bit more, but I can’t. I hate myself. I want to kill myself. But me writing this proves that there’s still some hope. I’m scared to die because I’m afriad I’ll miss out on something.”

Dear 14-year-old-me:

Thank you for holding on. You didn’t miss out on anything. Your life is amazing right now and it couldn’t be better. 


[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

frenchedfries:

Dia Frampton ft. Kid Cudi - Don’t Kick the Chair

Have you ever felt like everybody’s watching
Waiting for you to lose
Have you ever felt like you’re living in a spotlight
Searching for the real you
Tell me have you ever woken up
Just to wish you could close your eyes
Getting hard to find a friend in a city like this
Where you can’t even trust a smile

There are lonely nights when you see no hope
And you’re feeling short of breath
Like a whole damn world is a braided rope
In a noose around your neck

Don’t kick the chair
It’s gonna get better
Don’t kick the chair
It can only get better

Have you ever felt love, really really felt love
The kind that could save a life
But right before you know it you find out in a moment
You’re gonna have to say goodbye

There are lonely nights when you see no hope
And you’re feeling short of breath
Like the whole damn world is a braided rope
In a noose around your neck 

Don’t kick the chair
It’s gonna get better
Don’t kick the chair
It can only get better 

Just the song I needed to hear.

Four teen suicides related to anti-LGBT bullying that have made headlines this month.

So maybe the word should be used in its other context — how about flipping the script and looking at the tolerance of hate by our culture, schools and elected officials? Why do school officials  tolerate anti-LGBT bullying? Why aren’t there anti-LGBT bullying  policies in place in the majority of states in this country? Why are TV  shows still airing anti-gay and transphobic jokes? Why did CNN not even mention that Tyler Clementi was gay?

Click the image for the rest of the article from feministing.
I really feel grateful for living in Canada, not that I believe we are entirely free of these issues, but because well… I’ve never personally seen things get this bad. Realizing all the support that we’ve had for our high school’s GSA makes me so happy and actually makes me feel safe. Good luck America, keep fighting that fight.

Four teen suicides related to anti-LGBT bullying that have made headlines this month.

So maybe the word should be used in its other context — how about flipping the script and looking at the tolerance of hate by our culture, schools and elected officials? Why do school officials tolerate anti-LGBT bullying? Why aren’t there anti-LGBT bullying policies in place in the majority of states in this country? Why are TV shows still airing anti-gay and transphobic jokes? Why did CNN not even mention that Tyler Clementi was gay?

Click the image for the rest of the article from feministing.

I really feel grateful for living in Canada, not that I believe we are entirely free of these issues, but because well… I’ve never personally seen things get this bad. Realizing all the support that we’ve had for our high school’s GSA makes me so happy and actually makes me feel safe. Good luck America, keep fighting that fight.

thatfreak:

Undercover Report From Foxconn’s Hell FactoryChinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop.Interesting. This really doesn’t make me feel good about owning one ipod.

There’s no doubt about it. The Foxconn suicides were caused by job stress. Within half a year, there have been nine suicides attempts with seven confirmed deaths at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory. In the last month, that number suddenly increased to 30 new suicide attempts, prompting the company to hire counselors and even Buddhist monks to free the souls of the suicidal from purgatory.Foxconn is one of Apple’s main manufacturer contractors. Thousands of Mac minis, iPods, iPhones and iPads are assembled daily in the Shenzhen factory, which runs 24/7. The company also produces some products for Intel, Dell, and HP, among others.………..Another worker spoke about one of the favorite activities in the factory lines: He likes to drop stuff on the floor. Why? Workers spend achingly up to eight hours standing up, so they feel that squatting down to grab a fallen object is the most restful moment of their working day.Holy hell. I feel so shitty to be writing on this Macbook right now. I hate reading the argument that that’s China and $130 a month is a lot better than other places there even if it’s nothing in America. Just because it’s better than nothing doesn’t make it right. If you’re going to make my iPod $1000 because you’re going to have to give them proper breaks in proportion to the amount of hours they’re working, work benefits or sick days or health insurance then so be it if that is what someone’s basics rights are worth. Maybe then the spoiled brats of North America (ahem, that’s you and I) will start cherishing what they already have and stop throwing their toys away to the latest model.Apparently this article leaves a lot out from the original, but I can’t read Chinese :( If anyone is willing to translate….Here’s the summary of the previous incidents this year:
2010 May 14th: 21yrs old Male worker Liang, falls death from his 7th floor dormitory, four stab wounds was found on his body and a bloody knife was also found at the scene, police have been involved in the investigation.
2010 May 11th: 24yrs old Zhu Chen Ming, falls death by jumping down from her house on 9 floors, she was a worker from the Foxconn’s operation line, due to victim’s personal privacy and giving respect to her family, no further information has disclosed.
2010 May 6th: 24yrs old Hu Xin, after 6 months working in Foxconn as engineer, falls death by jumping down from his dormitory, it was suspected he has serious emotional conflicts.
2010 April 7th: 18yrs old female worker Ling, falls death by jumping down from her dormitory, reasons of death unknown.
2010 April 7th: A 22yrs old Foxconn male worker and her parents were found to be unconscious inside their house, after emergency rescue, it was unable to save the man’s life, investigation still in progress.
2010 April 6th: 18yrs old female worker Rao, jump down from her 7th floor dormitory, badly injured, it was suspected she have emotional conflicts with her boyfriend.
2010 March 29th: 23yrs old Male worker Liu, falls death from his 14th floor dormitory, wearing his working uniform and only underwear, investigation still in progress.
2010 March 17th: New employee Tian Yu, jump down from her 3rd floor dormitory, hit on the first floor and badly injured, she indicate that she has a hard life and end up commit suicide.
2010 Jan 23th: 19yrs old Male worker Ma Xiang Qian, mystery found dead at Foxconn’s dormitory, suspected of being beaten to death. After police investigation, it was first reported as sudden death, later become ‘Cause of death unknown’, and after Ma’s families apply for re-autopsy, the reason behind the death was defined as ‘High-fall death’.

thatfreak:

Undercover Report From Foxconn’s Hell Factory

Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop.

Interesting. This really doesn’t make me feel good about owning one ipod.

There’s no doubt about it. The Foxconn suicides were caused by job stress. Within half a year, there have been nine suicides attempts with seven confirmed deaths at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory. In the last month, that number suddenly increased to 30 new suicide attempts, prompting the company to hire counselors and even Buddhist monks to free the souls of the suicidal from purgatory.

Foxconn is one of Apple’s main manufacturer contractors. Thousands of Mac minis, iPods, iPhones and iPads are assembled daily in the Shenzhen factory, which runs 24/7. The company also produces some products for Intel, Dell, and HP, among others.

………..

Another worker spoke about one of the favorite activities in the factory lines: He likes to drop stuff on the floor. Why? Workers spend achingly up to eight hours standing up, so they feel that squatting down to grab a fallen object is the most restful moment of their working day.


Holy hell. I feel so shitty to be writing on this Macbook right now. I hate reading the argument that that’s China and $130 a month is a lot better than other places there even if it’s nothing in America. Just because it’s better than nothing doesn’t make it right. If you’re going to make my iPod $1000 because you’re going to have to give them proper breaks in proportion to the amount of hours they’re working, work benefits or sick days or health insurance then so be it if that is what someone’s basics rights are worth. Maybe then the spoiled brats of North America (ahem, that’s you and I) will start cherishing what they already have and stop throwing their toys away to the latest model.

Apparently this article leaves a lot out from the original, but I can’t read Chinese :( If anyone is willing to translate….

Here’s the summary of the previous incidents this year:

  • 2010 May 14th: 21yrs old Male worker Liang, falls death from his 7th floor dormitory, four stab wounds was found on his body and a bloody knife was also found at the scene, police have been involved in the investigation.
  • 2010 May 11th: 24yrs old Zhu Chen Ming, falls death by jumping down from her house on 9 floors, she was a worker from the Foxconn’s operation line, due to victim’s personal privacy and giving respect to her family, no further information has disclosed.
  • 2010 May 6th: 24yrs old Hu Xin, after 6 months working in Foxconn as engineer, falls death by jumping down from his dormitory, it was suspected he has serious emotional conflicts.
  • 2010 April 7th: 18yrs old female worker Ling, falls death by jumping down from her dormitory, reasons of death unknown.
  • 2010 April 7th: A 22yrs old Foxconn male worker and her parents were found to be unconscious inside their house, after emergency rescue, it was unable to save the man’s life, investigation still in progress.
  • 2010 April 6th: 18yrs old female worker Rao, jump down from her 7th floor dormitory, badly injured, it was suspected she have emotional conflicts with her boyfriend.
  • 2010 March 29th: 23yrs old Male worker Liu, falls death from his 14th floor dormitory, wearing his working uniform and only underwear, investigation still in progress.
  • 2010 March 17th: New employee Tian Yu, jump down from her 3rd floor dormitory, hit on the first floor and badly injured, she indicate that she has a hard life and end up commit suicide.
  • 2010 Jan 23th: 19yrs old Male worker Ma Xiang Qian, mystery found dead at Foxconn’s dormitory, suspected of being beaten to death. After police investigation, it was first reported as sudden death, later become ‘Cause of death unknown’, and after Ma’s families apply for re-autopsy, the reason behind the death was defined as ‘High-fall death’.
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