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Well, I have been watching 60 minutes again for a few weeks now! Use to watch it with family then when I moved out didn't watch it, then did for a while, stopped and have been doing it again, (all depends on whether BigBro is on or off :)
Anyway I didn't have the patience to watch all of last night's stories but the first one caught my attention. It was the most upsetting story, yet sort of touching for me. It was from America actually, and it was about this guy, Eric Steel, who had made a documentary on suicide and to do this, he had a camera on the GoldenGate bridge (can't remember where it was exactly) for a whole year, and apparently captured 23 out of the 24 suicides that year.
Of course there was much discussion and contraversy about this, but Eric Steel was saying that the people behind the cameras would alert authorities if they thought someone was going to jump. They even pulled this young woman back apparently.
There was then discussion about whether there should in fact be a "suicide barrier".
But there was this one guy who was praising the documentary and barrier. he had attempted to suicide off the bridge in 2000 but just as he jumped he thought he really didn't want to die. So in the four short seconds he had, he made his decision to put his head back so he landed in the water in a sitting position. He had a few broken vertebrae but he mannaged to swim up to the top and somehow get the help from there.
He had bipolar but had since gotten treatment. It just really made me think. wow, he was just sooo lucky; in that split second he felt he didn't want to die yet and he was miraculously saved.
In the past with me, I hadn't tried anything cos of the fact I may have regretted my decision when it was way too late, then, that's it! no second chance for everybody. .. I mean they said that the guy was still extremely lucky as chances are high he still may have been killed regardless of his landing position.
so yeh, that very fact would stop me, as well as knowing it wasn't a christian thing to do; as well as of course hurting loved-ones left behind.
Last night's story reitterated that, telling that guy's story. I'm good on the ciprimal (as I'm on now - excuse spelling), but when I'm not on that, I can become a mess for the most part. Every little thing can seem too big for me to handle.
Til next time, RdFreak
Anyway I didn't have the patience to watch all of last night's stories but the first one caught my attention. It was the most upsetting story, yet sort of touching for me. It was from America actually, and it was about this guy, Eric Steel, who had made a documentary on suicide and to do this, he had a camera on the GoldenGate bridge (can't remember where it was exactly) for a whole year, and apparently captured 23 out of the 24 suicides that year.
Of course there was much discussion and contraversy about this, but Eric Steel was saying that the people behind the cameras would alert authorities if they thought someone was going to jump. They even pulled this young woman back apparently.
There was then discussion about whether there should in fact be a "suicide barrier".
But there was this one guy who was praising the documentary and barrier. he had attempted to suicide off the bridge in 2000 but just as he jumped he thought he really didn't want to die. So in the four short seconds he had, he made his decision to put his head back so he landed in the water in a sitting position. He had a few broken vertebrae but he mannaged to swim up to the top and somehow get the help from there.
He had bipolar but had since gotten treatment. It just really made me think. wow, he was just sooo lucky; in that split second he felt he didn't want to die yet and he was miraculously saved.
In the past with me, I hadn't tried anything cos of the fact I may have regretted my decision when it was way too late, then, that's it! no second chance for everybody. .. I mean they said that the guy was still extremely lucky as chances are high he still may have been killed regardless of his landing position.
so yeh, that very fact would stop me, as well as knowing it wasn't a christian thing to do; as well as of course hurting loved-ones left behind.
Last night's story reitterated that, telling that guy's story. I'm good on the ciprimal (as I'm on now - excuse spelling), but when I'm not on that, I can become a mess for the most part. Every little thing can seem too big for me to handle.
Til next time, RdFreak
