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Topic	Yearly anti-suicide post
DevsBro 10/12/17 1:51:58 PM #14:	"Just hang in there" "You're gonna get through this" "You have a lot to live for" "I know how you feel" "I know how you feel" sigh I have a friend who is going to die any day now. It's been a week since he was given 48 hours to live. He's hanging in there, poor guy. I gave him a call one day, a couple of years ago. I don't really do phone calls but I felt like I should talk to him. When I met him, he had disability-tier back problems. He walked everywhere holding his back. I honestly never asked why. It was just... a part of who he was, to me. At the time, he was having to work because he had was still in the process of applying for disability. Their family had never had any money, and the labor was killing him. He left the living room and went out onto the porch and he started just sharing his whole life story with me. He had struggled with depression his whole life. He was on his second marriage. His first wife was unfaithful from day one. I was able to put the pieces together, having met his son's biological father at the son's wedding that the son was a product of one of these affairs. My friend had tried to stay with her and work everything out, but the wife eventually left him anyway. He had been fighting with cancer for a long time, too. He has two sons with his current wife, one brilliant and the other challenged. They had the brilliant one in a private Bible school, and as I spoke with them, he told me he felt like thst was where God wanted him to be. I honestly had to agree. But it did make money even tighter. They were barely surviving. His wife didn't work. She didn't want to work. She grew up rich and felt like she shouldn't have to work, in spite of the situation. He didn't want to force her to work, so the situation got worse and worse. Some days, he told me, he couldn't get out of bed becsuse of the pain. Having mostly lost the ability to provide for his family, his wife had stopped treating him like a husband. A "roommate scenario" was how he described it. He told me how much he's insured for and how many times he'd considered "cashing in" on it. What do you say? What could I say? None of it was true. He couldn't "hang in there." He wasn't going to get through this. He had nothing to live for. A few months later, I decide to give him another call for encouragement. I call him up and tell him exactly that. He says he apprecites the gesture, but I have nothing he hasn't heard before. I didn't know this, but he has two other friends he calls on the regular to vent or whatever and sure enough, whatever I tried to tell him, he had heard before and it had done nothing for him. --- http://backloggery.com/devsbro/sig.gif http://i.imgur.com/kU5vu5N.png Never pepper popcorn <cite>DevsBro posted [p:888301711] in Yearly ant... [t:75871628]...</cite> <quote>"Just hang in there" "You're gonna get through this" "You have a lot to live for" "I know how you feel" "I know how you feel" sigh I have a friend who is going to die any day now. It's been a week since he was given 48 hours to live. He's hanging in there, poor guy. I gave him a call one day, a couple of years ago. I don't really do phone calls but I felt like I should talk to him. When I met him, he had disability-tier back problems. He walked everywhere holding his back. I honestly never asked why. It was just... a part of who he was, to me. At the time, he was having to work because he had was still in the process of applying for disability. Their family had never had any money, and the labor was killing him. He left the living room and went out onto the porch and he started just sharing his whole life story with me. He had struggled with depression his whole life. He was on his second marriage. His first wife was unfaithful from day one. I was able to put the pieces together, having met his son's biological father at the son's wedding that the son was a product of one of these affairs. My friend had tried to stay with her and work everything out, but the wife eventually left him anyway. He had been fighting with cancer for a long time, too. He has two sons with his current wife, one brilliant and the other challenged. They had the brilliant one in a private Bible school, and as I spoke with them, he told me he felt like thst was where God wanted him to be. I honestly had to agree. But it did make money even tighter. They were barely surviving. His wife didn't work. She didn't want to work. She grew up rich and felt like she shouldn't have to work, in spite of the situation. He didn't want to force her to work, so the situation got worse and worse. Some days, he told me, he couldn't get out of bed becsuse of the pain. Having mostly lost the ability to provide for his family, his wife had stopped treating him like a husband. A "roommate scenario" was how he described it. He told me how much he's insured for and how many times he'd considered "cashing in" on it. What do you say? What could I say? None of it was true. He couldn't "hang in there." He wasn't going to get through this. He had nothing to live for. A few months later, I decide to give him another call for encouragement. I call him up and tell him exactly that. He says he apprecites the gesture, but I have nothing he hasn't heard before. I didn't know this, but he has two other friends he calls on the regular to vent or whatever and sure enough, whatever I tried to tell him, he had heard before and it had done nothing for him. --- http://backloggery.com/devsbro/sig.gif http://i.imgur.com/kU5vu5N.png Never pepper popcorn</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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