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I saw a documentary on this. The long short is "faking their deaths" doesn't mean what we normally think it means. Its more of a therapy tactic for depressed/s
by IIAOPSW 7y ago
I saw a documentary on this.
The long short is "faking their deaths" doesn't mean what we normally think it means. Its more of a therapy tactic for depressed/suicidal people where they get to go through with it. They write goodbye notes, have a funeral, even get put in a coffin for a few hours.
I don't know if it works but it seems promising.
- kranner 7y agoWas this the documentary you saw? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejEaJUEOhjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejEaJUEOhjs
- techntoke 7y agoSounds like they just wanted attention
- Gigablah 7y ago"Faking" is the wrong word then -- more like "emulating".
- manojlds 7y agoThe article itself makes it clear and calls it "simulating death"
- lb1lf 7y agoI grew up in a rather small community on the northwestern coast of Norway, home to a lot of small-time fishermen working up in the Arctic. Just about everyone my age and older still remember when a vessel was lost back in the eighties, initial reports were all hands lost - until suddenly, a week and a half later, the fisherman we'd all mourned for the past days came home, puzzled as to the sensation his appearance made - he and a couple others had been picked up off a liferaft, and Canadian authorities had misspelled his name when notifying their Norwegian counterparts there were survivors after all - so his family had not been notified. Allegedly, his father's first words upon seeing him was 'F[---] me, did I just die, or is it you who've not died after all?' Magne is one of the few people I know who've had the pleasure of reading his own obituary.
- Aser 7y agoI also saw a documentary about this, but it was called "A pharaoh to remember". Unfortunately in this one, the fake funeral just made the guy feel worse.
- altendo 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxoAWTBlRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxoAWTBlRs