Re: Mother commits suicide at same spot as her only daughter
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jium -
this isn't a [censored] contract. i didn't ask to be born.
just like you can lead a horse to water, you can give a kid life but you can't make him keep it.
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I believe children owe their parents
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that is BS. i didn't ask for [censored] from them and if i want to kill myself i am damn well going to do it.
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I am definitely prejudiced against the girl in the first story. Her immature "grief" about breaking up with some boyfriend is trivial in comparison with a mother's grief for the suicide of her only daughter. The daughter killed herself because of how she felt that day, that week, over something that would pass, a temporary unhappiness, the indulgent heartbreak before she found another boyfriend and moved on. The mother killed herself over something terrible and unremediable: the death of the family's future, the death of hope. The daughter's death was stupid and wrong; the mother's death was, in the proper sense of the word, tragic.
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