Broncos WR Kenny McKinley found dead

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Originally Posted by SBXVII

For those who are contemplating or have attempted in the past I have an over abundance of compassion for. I'll do almost anything neccessary to help the individual in order to keep them from doing it.

However, thats where my compassion stops. I feel everyone is on earth to learn a lesson to improve themselves.... kinda like school. Every year you go to school -the more you learn, to decide your going to commit suicide is like quiting on school or giving up. bailing out. I don't feel compassion for someone who has committed suicide just like I don't feel compassion for someone who decided to quit school after 8th grade. God had a plan and they bailed.

I do have compassion for the families though. No one should have to go through having a family member do that.

None of these concepts of which you speak are either understood or available to a suicidal person. A person who is suicidal is sick as much as any patient with cancer or diabetes or AIDS. It is not about "bailing out", and God doesn't enter into the equation. When you reach that point of depression and hopelessness you are prisoner to emotions run amok and in need of help you can not give yourself; it's not about bucking up and rolling with life's punches.

It is about an illness that can be treated with therapy, medicine or a combination of both, and the analogy comparing it to dropping out of school is ridiculous.