Fox News shows car chase suicide live

Locutus

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Smells different in here this morning. A glade plug-in perhaps?
 

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Why would they apologize?

Takes a lot of guts to try kill yourself bud,more guts to do it right.
No it doesn't.

It take desperation and/or mental illness.

Someone throwing themselves on a grenade, storming an armed position, placing themselves in harms way or facing death, in the defence of others, is brave, takes guts or is otherwise admirable.

Offing yourself because **** gets to thick, is cowardly, full stop.

Because the church tells you to think that way?
Nope.

You had Gerry on ignore before then took him off for 'fun'. If this is 'fun', have at it kid. Self-destruct is just as painless.
Caused by mental illness I presume.

Smells different in here this morning. A glade plug-in perhaps?
It would seem someone took out the trash.
 
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Good for you,guess you never learned anything then about why he was trying to commit suicide.

Yeah actually I did, and when I found out why he wanted to commit suicide, I figured out I should have pushed him instead.. :)

He was an ex-soldier from WWII and was a prison guard in a concentration camp.. he was feeling sorry for himself and his past deeds. So being selfish, and at the risk of others lives, mine and two fine police offices he decided to jump.

The 3 of us held onto him, until the two police officers hand cuffed the guy to the bridge.

Suicide is a selfish act because of the pain and suffering to those left behind feel.

I do fell sorry for the victims and would hope the people wanting to commit suicide are not so far gone that they can't seek help from a professional counselor.
 

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Yeah actually I did, and when I found out why he wanted to commit suicide, I figured out I should have pushed him instead.. :)

He was an ex-soldier from WWII and was a prison guard in a concentration camp.. he was feeling sorry for himself and his past deeds. So being selfish, and at the risk of others lives, mine and two fine police offices he decided to jump.

The 3 of us held onto him, until the two police officers hand cuffed the guy to the bridge.

Suicide is a selfish act because of the pain and suffering to those left behind feel.

I do fell sorry for the victims and would hope the people wanting to commit suicide are not so far gone that they can't seek help from a professional counselor.


Ok, you're really gonna have stop this now, cause I can't be agreeing with you this much.
 

gerryh

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lol :lol: well thanks..

oh look at that, I got a neg from Angstrom.. LOL Must mean I am correct in my views. I will wear that neg with a badge of honor.


Yes, it appears he has decided to pick up the torch that kak dropped and carry on with the crusade.
 

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Yes, it appears he has decided to pick up the torch that kak dropped and carry on with the crusade.
And don't forget EAO, and now Prax as well.

The hypocrisy abounds in the legion of whining, otherwise known as the Usual Suspects.
 

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Suicide is a selfish act because of the pain and suffering to those left behind feel.

I do fell sorry for the victims and would hope the people wanting to commit suicide are not so far gone that they can't seek help from a professional counselor.

Very well said.

Suicide is a cowardly act, it comes from fear and shame. Where the real crime is, in my opinion, is that those that would deride people for calling it what it is automatically assume that it means we don't care. It is, in fact, the opposite. Facing the reality of it does not equate with lack of sympathy or empathy.
 

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Sorry, have to disgree strongly with you there... it's a cowards way out..

You hurt everyone around you in a selfish cry..

I have stopped a man from committing suicide off the Lions Gate Bridge

Yea but your motive was to get traffic flowing again.
 

gerryh

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Very well said.

Suicide is a cowardly act, it comes from fear and shame. Where the real crime is, in my opinion, is that those that would deride people for calling it what it is automatically assume that it means we don't care. It is, in fact, the opposite. Facing the reality of it does not equate with lack of sympathy or empathy.


Ok, that's it. I'm going back to bed and try getting back up on the other side. I'm being FAR to agreeable today.
 

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There are people who quietly end their lives after a well thought out appraisal of their dire situation and after getting their affairs in order. They do not make a spectacle of it, nor do they endanger others. They have my respect and sympathy and given such a situation i would not attempt to deny them that right.
 

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There are people who quietly end their lives after a well thought out appraisal of their dire situation and after getting their affairs in order. They do not make a spectacle of it, nor do they endanger others. They have my respect and sympathy and given such a situation i would not attempt to deny them that right.

It happens a lot in our area without most of the population knowing about it. Many have just had enough of being old and sick. Most of the time there will be a DNR notice on the fridge.
 

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Police Identify the Man Who Shot Himself on Live TV and Reveal They May Have Shot Him First



PHOENIX (AP) — A man who stole a car at gunpoint, shot at Phoenix police officers and then led them on a chase that ended with his suicide broadcast on national television was identified Saturday as a wanted felon with a long criminal history.

Jodon F. Romero, 33, was wanted for violating his parole for a weapons conviction and had numerous other violent crimes in his background, police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson said.

At the end of an hour-long pursuit on an interstate west of Phoenix on Friday, Romero pulled into the desert and an officer shot at him, although it appears he missed, Thompson said. Romero then walked off the dirt road, put a gun to his head and killed himself.


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Jodon Romero Identified as Man Who Committed Suicide on Fox News | Video | TheBlaze.com
 

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Sorry, have to disgree strongly with you there... it's a cowards way out..

You hurt everyone around you in a selfish cry..

BS. Some probably are like that but not all. Quite a few have mental health issues which they can't manage. I know for a fact some are not in control of themselves when they commit suicide.

When it comes to the video I dont think fox should have apologized. It was news. Not all news stories are good. They covered it while not knowing what would happen.

Very well said.

Suicide is a cowardly act, it comes from fear and shame. Where the real crime is, in my opinion, is that those that would deride people for calling it what it is automatically assume that it means we don't care. It is, in fact, the opposite. Facing the reality of it does not equate with lack of sympathy or empathy.

You cant call someone a coward and claim to care. If anything that'd probably just make it worse. A person with a mental health issue is not a coward. They did not chose to have that issue and in some cases they did not consciously chose to commit suicide.

I made a suicide attempt which I do not remember. I wound up in the hospital. Yes, I was afraid, but not of life. I was afraid that something like that might happen again and work. I did not want to die, I never did. Trust me, it is extremely disturbing when you discover that that sort of thing can happen.
 

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I had my suicide all planned. I was ecstatic. I'd finally realized how to solve 'the problem'. My family would be so relieved to not have to see me exhausted and in pain anymore. I'd get to finally have a good sleep and not wake up in pain. The kids wouldn't have to deal with watching an exhausted, pathetic lump drag itself around the house and pretend to be a 'mother'. It was the perfect solution, and I was over the moon. That whole 48 hour period was a high I can't even begin to describe. Plotting and planning and thinking off all that glorious 'sleep'. My kids were 2 1/2 and 1 at the time, and when the time came to head to the store to buy hose and duct tape (we lived in High Level, so I had no lack of secluded places to drive to), I realized it would be much simpler to just grab all that on the way and leave the kids with hubby. I was all but ready to walk out the door when I stopped and wondered if I should warn him that he'd need a sitter so he could go to work the next day. And then that little question turned into 'what about the day after that? And the day after that?' All of a sudden all these questions that hadn't even registered in my ecstatic mind over the last 48 hrs, came crashing in.... reality shouldered its way through the high.

No one had bothered to tell me that the medication they were putting me on 'to manage pain' for fibromyalgia, had this wicked horrid side effect of causing suicidal tendencies.

Had I gone through with it, there was nothing cowardly about my mindset. There was nothing but relief, and a sense of being able to solve a problem. It all made total sense, and the cowardly thing at that time would have been to lie in bed not solving all my problems like I thought I could. I have a friend with bipolar disorder who's attempted to take her life on numerous occasions, and she talks about the same thought process. She ends up with a surety that she's ruining lives by existing. That all the pain and heartache she bumps up against, is there because she's there. If she would just man up, and end her life, it would fix things for her loved ones.
 

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You cant call someone a coward and claim to care. If anything that'd probably just make it worse.

Well, first of all I didn't call anyone a coward, I said it was a cowardly act. Behaviour is cowardly, people are just people, warts and all. Secondly, you can absolutely be brutally truthful with someone and still care about them. In fact, I'd say depending on the situation and circumstances, sometimes it's better to be expressly honest and truthful even if that truth hurts.

A person with a mental health issue is not a coward. They did not chose to have that issue and in some cases they did not consciously chose to commit suicide.
Also never said anyone with a mental health issue was a coward.

Suicide does not necessarily denote mental health issues however. An individual who kills another human being is not necessarily mentally ill, some are but many are not. Similarly with suicide, it is not always just on account of mental illness.

Bottom line is that these actions are not courageous, irrespective of whether someone has convinced themselves that they are at the time. Just because the mindset of the individual may be skewed into believing that it is a considerate action they are attempting to undertake does not mean that it is. It is, in the end, a self involved act. Granted the individual may not be in control of their thought processes, but it doesn't make the act itself one of courage.

And when it comes to this individual who chose to eat a bullet instead of surrendering to police, I'm sorry but yes, he did take the coward's way out. Because he didn't have the fortitude to face the consequences of his own actions. And I don't for one second buy that he was mentally ill, he was simply desperate and spiteful.

I made a suicide attempt which I do not remember. I wound up in the hospital. Yes, I was afraid, but not of life. I was afraid that something like that might happen again and work. I did not want to die, I never did. Trust me, it is extremely disturbing when you discover that that sort of thing can happen.
I'm sorry you went through that, I really am. I've had some pretty disturbing things happen to me in my life as well and while I've never gone so far as to make an actual attempt, believe me when I tell you, I do not need to trust you in order to know just how disturbing that realization is.