Was reading a news story about a woman who committed suicide following a cancer diagnosis by setting herself on fire in a parking lot. It definitely makes you wonder about the workings of the human mind -- assuming she committed suicide to avoid future suffering, it seems odd that she chose such a horrific, presumably excruciating means to an end. Mysterious creatures are we...
 
   

 


 
 
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Re: choices people make
That is, like you said, horrific. My gosh! What the......
shiny on
Re: choices people make
I was shocked by this as well...

But in a psychopathological sort of way, I can understand it.  Perhaps she was afraid of dying through a slow deterioration. Perhaps she's dealt with a family member with cancer and didn't want to burden her family in the same way.

Hard to say...

-- S

 
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