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Seems to me she wants to live. I am not sure anyone would go through with that surgery if they did not want to live. Edit: Reading more about the story. Her su

Seems to me she wants to live. I am not sure anyone would go through with that surgery if they did not want to live. Edit: Reading more about the story. Her suicide attempt was entirely impulsive and not premeditated at all. > "I never thought of doing that ever before, and so on hearing about it, I just didn't know how to handle it," she told National Geographic. "I felt so guilty that I had put my family through such pain. I felt horrible." This is not an appropriate story to be talking about assisted suicide as it does not apply what-so-ever. This is more of a teenage depression / gun control discussion if there is to be any relevant meta-discussion at all.

WC3w6pXxgGd 8y ago
If you want to talk about inappropriate, talking about gun control in relation to this story is COMPLETELY inappropriate here. This 100% is a story about suicide, hence my comment about assisted suicide.
- Arainach 8y ago
  Firearms advocates don't think that it's ever the appropriate time to talk about the issues. It's always "too soon" after a tragedy because guns cause so many tragedies in America every day. This story is about someone who needs a new face because she made an impulsive decision and had access to a gun, so it removed her face. No other form of suicide would have led to this scenario. In fact, if there wasn't an easily accessible gun, it's entirely possible this might not have led to a suicide attempt at all. Gun control is ESSENTIAL to this story.
- roguecoder 8y ago
  Gun access increases the rate of youth suicides: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-ownership-and-use/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-own...
- DanBC 8y ago
  One of the key measures to reduce death by suicide is to reduce access to means and methods, especially if they are more lethal. This means you put high fences up around the top floor of a multistorey carpark. (At least one car park in the UK has completely closed the top, open, floor.) It means you put barriers up by bridges. It means you teach gun owners to be more responsible when storing their guns and you consider whether the x0,000 suicide deaths to guns each year are a price worth paying for the benefit of ... well, whatever the fuck gun owners think the benefit is.
- monkeynotes 8y ago
  BS dude, and you know it. If the gun hadn't been to hand (and locking it up with ammo separate is a form of control) it is more than reasonable to suggest she would have had time to be less destructively impulsive. Even slitting wrists or downing pills is more survivable than a gun to the head. To be clear, I own a rifle and I want to be able to continue to own that rifle. However, I keep it locked up in the basement with the ammunition far away from it. It's a lethal weapon, I treat it with respect.

WC3w6pXxgGd 8y ago

If you want to talk about inappropriate, talking about gun control in relation to this story is COMPLETELY inappropriate here. This 100% is a story about suicide, hence my comment about assisted suicide.

Arainach 8y ago
Firearms advocates don't think that it's ever the appropriate time to talk about the issues. It's always "too soon" after a tragedy because guns cause so many tragedies in America every day. This story is about someone who needs a new face because she made an impulsive decision and had access to a gun, so it removed her face. No other form of suicide would have led to this scenario. In fact, if there wasn't an easily accessible gun, it's entirely possible this might not have led to a suicide attempt at all. Gun control is ESSENTIAL to this story.
roguecoder 8y ago
Gun access increases the rate of youth suicides: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-ownership-and-use/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-own...
DanBC 8y ago
One of the key measures to reduce death by suicide is to reduce access to means and methods, especially if they are more lethal. This means you put high fences up around the top floor of a multistorey carpark. (At least one car park in the UK has completely closed the top, open, floor.) It means you put barriers up by bridges. It means you teach gun owners to be more responsible when storing their guns and you consider whether the x0,000 suicide deaths to guns each year are a price worth paying for the benefit of ... well, whatever the fuck gun owners think the benefit is.
monkeynotes 8y ago
BS dude, and you know it. If the gun hadn't been to hand (and locking it up with ammo separate is a form of control) it is more than reasonable to suggest she would have had time to be less destructively impulsive. Even slitting wrists or downing pills is more survivable than a gun to the head. To be clear, I own a rifle and I want to be able to continue to own that rifle. However, I keep it locked up in the basement with the ammunition far away from it. It's a lethal weapon, I treat it with respect.