Suicide with Amazon

[pooterz]

I saw you can order an assited suicide planner book and video at Amazon.com.
what do you think of this?

 

[KikiFan]

Well I think that if people are going to do it, it's better they do it right and as humanly as possible. So I guess that makes me okay with it.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I think we need a link, please.

 

[Hedy]

Doesn't bother me in the least.

 

[pooterz]

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Exit-Third-Practicalities-Self-Deliverance/dp/0385336535/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8888678-1688725?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173022745&sr=8-1


I think its okay, really. My uncle had real bad cancer and believed in it. But I was sort of freaked out because I was depressed once and ordered one!!

 

[Gurgi]

 

[Cool-Beans]

Can it be sent as a gift?

 

[kristen821]

Why would you need a book? I think a person could figure it out on thier own.

 

[pooterz]

cool beans thats hysterical lol! I think it can by the way...

 

[Cool-Beans]

Why would you need a book? I think a person could figure it out on thier own.

You'd THINK SO, wouldn't you? But, nooooo.

I've often said I was going to write a one-page book called, "How to Kill Yourself and Get It Right The First Time!" because so many people who attempt it don't succeed. But, of course, most of them weren't really trying to DIE, they just felt the need to seek attention in a dramatic way.

For the most part, people who are intent on doing the deed are successful and don't need a book.

 

[C.Ann]

I think it's fine - for anyone suffering a long, lingering, painful death while people stand around and argue over who gets to decide if the person should live or die; how well their pain should be managed - if managed at all; and if a person should be allowed to die in a peaceful, pain-free environment with at least a shred of dignity left..

 

[RayaniFoxmur]

But, of course, most of them weren't really trying to DIE, they just felt the need to seek attention in a dramatic way.

Eh... I don't know that this is true in all cases. For some people, it's the only way they can get any help... a lot of times the teenage set will have parents that either don't listen to them, or don't believe they have a problem. I believe a suicide attempt is more a cry for help than a plea for attention.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I've often said I was going to write a one-page book called, "How to Kill Yourself and Get It Right The First Time!" because so many people who attempt it don't succeed. But, of course, most of them weren't really trying to DIE, they just felt the need to seek attention in a dramatic way.

For the most part, people who are intent on doing the deed are successful and don't need a book.

Having working in mental health, I have to agree with you. Our calls about suicide attempts from the hospital were usually "the patient took 10 Advil in a suicide attempt," or "superficial scratching on wrist in a suicide attempt," etc. The ones who were serious were in the hospital for days before the could be evaluated (gunshot wounds, slitting wrists the right way, etc).

It really is pathetic.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

A childhood friend of mine slit her wrist when she was in her early 20's. I remember going to see her, and asking her WHY she chose to do it that way, wouldn't popping a bottle of aspirin be less painful? (I did ask her this, because I was hurt and confused that she would want to die)

She said she didn't think it out. She just got to a point of desperation, where she wanted to die, it didn't matter in her mind how she she it, because the end result would be the same. She just did it.

I am not comfortable with a book like this being available for anyone. So many suicide attempts are failures, and thank goodness. I do not think suicide is bad if you are someone like my brother, who was suffereing hoorendously with terminal cancer. But if you are suffering from severe depression, this book could be a bad thing.

 

[pooterz]

Having working in mental health, I have to agree with you. Our calls about suicide attempts from the hospital were usually "the patient took 10 Advil in a suicide attempt," or "superficial scratching on wrist in a suicide attempt," etc. The ones who were serious were in the hospital for days before the could be evaluated (gunshot wounds, slitting wrists the right way, etc).

It really is pathetic.

I was one of those "pathetic" people. I truly wanted to die, but was too wimpy to do it. I ordered the book so someone would do it for me. Fortunately, my parents found the book and grounded me for a month!

 

[Charade]

Can it be sent as a gift?

Oh no you didn't!!

 

[Toby'sFriend]

yea, just a hilarious topic.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I was one of those "pathetic" people. I truly wanted to die, but was too wimpy to do it. I ordered the book so someone would do it for me. Fortunately, my parents found the book and grounded me for a month!

It is the situation that's pathetic, not the people doing it. And may I ask how old you are, or were when you tried?

 

[phillybeth]

You'd THINK SO, wouldn't you? But, nooooo.

I've often said I was going to write a one-page book called, "How to Kill Yourself and Get It Right The First Time!" because so many people who attempt it don't succeed. But, of course, most of them weren't really trying to DIE, they just felt the need to seek attention in a dramatic way.

For the most part, people who are intent on doing the deed are successful and don't need a book.

I find this a bit insensitive. Unless you have been through it, or had a loved one attempt suicide, you don't know what it's like.

And guess what? "How to Kill Yourself and Get It Right The First Time!" doesn't always work. The OD that my DH took should have killed him. He took more than enough to die. Others have died taking HALF of what he did.

 

[bicker]

I think the Amazon.com angle to this is irrelevant. I can see people asking whether or not anyone should reasonably read and internalize what this book advocates, but to suggest that a book that exists, and is offered for sale anywhere in the country, should not be sold by an online bookstore is ludicrous, IMHO.