Sane MySpace user prevents Webcam suicide
Not everyone can hope to meet someone like Jesse Coltrane online.
Coltrane, a 22-year-old from New Jersey, befriended a teenager from the Sacramento area on MySpace. About a month later, the teen revealed in a Webcam chat that he was cutting himself and intended to take his own life.
Perhaps some of you might remember the case of Abraham Biggs, the Florida teen who made a similar statement last November and went through with his suicide, while being egged on by many pleasant little worms, staring at their Webcams as if this was entertainment.
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Coltrane proved sanity does exist somewhere out there. Perhaps because he is involved in a youth mentoring program, he had no doubts about what he should do. He contacted the police in Sacramento and gave them the teen's cell phone number.
The police visited the teen's apartment. He had cut his arms, but done nothing too drastic. The police arranged for him to receive the appropriate care.
There. Finally a social networking feel-good story.
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Every person who commits suicide or contemplates it has his/her own reason for doing so. Some individuals I've met in the past suffer constant chronic depression. They have trouble sleeping at night over constant worries, are tired throughout the day, and are continuously worrying and worrying. It's not a problem that's easy to get past. Others question just why this life is worth living. These very individuals are those who live under high-pressure environments. An example: my mother. Many years back, she felt she couldn't handle raising four kids. She once admitted having felt the desire to suicide It was a lot on her back. 20 years later, she's content and though I do make her worry at times, things are much better.
The bottom line is that people who commit suicide and/or go on Columbine-style shootings need serious help. They need to speak with someone or people who understand them. But sadly, no one is willing to help them because ********** such as those who watch the people suiciding on webcam or people like certain posters here on cnet have no compassion or love for others. Rather, they see this news as something to sensationalize over. it's true that people in general are to be self-centered, but it just takes a bit of sympathy and understanding to help someone go through really difficult times.
If you ever end up befriending or marrying someone who's had a history of depression and contemplating suicide, what would you do? Don't tell me you'd never talk to or even think about getting close to that person.
I sure hope I don't ever have to meet people like you guys. I'd have a much better time making friends with a cactus. At least the cactus won't **** on me when I ask for a bit of advice during my hard times.
I'll agree bmn_1212, you probably are a selfish jerk and who knows how your sister would be if she had a better brother. You don't know why she's attempted suicide (multiple times) and you don't seem to care to find out. She's your freakin sister, maybe she just wishes she had something like a brother who cares enough about her to have an interest in what's going on.
Sure, some people (teens especially) attempt suicide for attention. Most don't actually go through with it, or intentionally just go through with it enough to land themselves in the hospital or otherwise get the attention they crave. Teens do all sorts of stupid things for attention, this is sadly one of them.
Some people have REAL problems with no aparant way out, or REAL depression. What about them? I know someone who's had seizures almost daily since she was a teenager and spent those first years with them living in a physically abusive household. No sympathy for her? My grandmother had extreme depression and psyphosis late in life until the day she shot herself. I felt bad for her all the years her mental health slipped and wish there was more that we could have done. @bmn_1212 do you even know your sisters mental state?
Glad you could cope with your load all by yourself, sorry but not all people can and it doesn't make them a "little, tiny, insignificant, self-absorbed creature" as you say
"Don't do it" is a campaign by consolidated skateboards
against corporate america (namely Nike)
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I'd rather die than wear Nike & that's a fact.
Ncalishome, don't worry about those 2. Men/women like them *never* move on to become good parents, if eligible at all to become parents. They live through life self-righteously believing that their philosophy of how to move through hardship and stress is the only way. This is fine when they live alone, but once they meet a significant other and eventually have children, that's where the problems begin. The children are clueless as to why they're harshly told to "suck it up" and "be real men." When the children catch on, the father/mother figure is found to be completely out of touch and someone whom they regard as a complete stranger--perhaps further from them than the boyfriend/girlfriend whom they're sleeping with every now and then.
Sad, but true.
@zeth006, could not agree more. Only 5 years into parenthood myself, but lots of love, encouragement, and an open heart seem to be the theme in good parenting we see.
- by One_time_user March 2, 2009 1:45 PM PST
- I have been invited to random people's webcams when they are in this exact same situation. People that I don't know. Covered in blood, with myself-- an unknown stranger-- alone, as the only thing deciding between their life and death. Yet I've able to save them too. I have been doing this for 10 years on my free time.
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(16 Comments)Where's my news story? Where's my anything? This was just a one time event. The true heroes not only don't get rewarded for what they do, these things actually put them worse off than before.