Suicide

nervcity said:
Interesting thread. The rate for suicides in Canada is about 1 in 3500 (source). There are (according to the frontpage) more than 139,000 members, so that would be about 40 suicides a year...
Obviously the 139,000 is inflated by lurkers, multiples, or people who signed up once, but even if the actual, contributing population on terb was 10% the 139K, its still ~4 suicides/year.

BTW, suicide is almost as big a killer as breast cancer in Canada. Why not do something about it?
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This is, I believe, the right of it here. I don't think Terb is anymore or less prone to a host of issues from its members anymore than any other forum with anonymity. It's really is a numbers game at some point.

As for Polaris's comments even in the politics section I haven't seen much worse when I've been at my local pub and the topic turns to politics. People will express strong opinions and there is nothing wrong with that. I a way I like the fact the Mods let the members play here like it was the playoffs. Why ruin a good game with too many whistle calls. They are pretty good here at stepping in at the right time. Better than some other sites.

Seriously why do people insist on going to places where they know they will get upset and be offended?
 
nervcity said:
Interesting thread. The rate for suicides in Canada is about 1 in 3500 (source). There are (according to the frontpage) more than 139,000 members, so that would be about 40 suicides a year...
Obviously the 139,000 is inflated by lurkers, multiples, or people who signed up once, but even if the actual, contributing population on terb was 10% the 139K, its still ~4 suicides/year.



BTW, suicide is almost as big a killer as breast cancer in Canada. Why not do something about it?
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You wrong. Approximately 3500 suicides take place in Canada annually. Mean around 12 people / 100.000 residents.
140.000 members here so statistically 17 people took her own life from the board last year. Maybe higher because more men do suicide than woman. If two suicide took place (what is still too much) from here last year, I think the best medicine against suicide to become a TERB member.
 
I might even think the suicide rate is higher for terbites because we are risk takers and okay with going outside of societal norms.

Who knows maybe it is the opposite and we are happier.

So i guess my point is that as a subgroup of a national average we are probably not at the average.

I have been here a long time and sorry tp say i don't recall any deaths but i tend to not get personal with other terbites.

I do find that this forum can be a very negative place. I have been on other forums for other topics where people are much nicer.

I tend to stay away from the lounge or post response and leave. What i mean by that is try tp avoid long back and for the when you know you won't change the persons mind.

I don't think terb could have helped these people unless they came out and said it.

I know that sometimes i feel sadness, guilt etc about my hobbying. But for the most part feel that i am happy. However i can see how this hobby could be detrimental for someone who is feeling down to begin with.
 
IRIS said:
Approximately 3500 suicides take place in Canada annually. Mean around 12 people / 100.000 residents.
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We only hear about the ones that make the news (sometimes referred to as "accidental overdose"). The German co-pilot made the news. Robin Williams made the news. W'ren Scott (Mick Jaggers' GF) made the news. Mariel Hemingway said that 7 members of her family committed suicide. NHL and NFL players made the news. Luke Richardson's daughter.
 
SkyRider said:
We only hear about the ones that make the news (sometimes referred to as "accidental overdose"). The German co-pilot made the news. Robin Williams made the news. W'ren Scott (Mick Jaggers' GF) made the news. Mariel Hemingway said that 7 members of her family committed suicide. NHL and NFL players made the news. Luke Richardson's daughter.
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We had a couple that we were close to...even did a wife swap one night..(yeah alchohol was involved)...then HE left her for another woman...she never recovered from the hurt and DRANK herself to death....official cause of death was liver failure but we all knew she slowly commited suicide....food for thought
 
thumper18474 said:
We had a couple that we were close to...even did a wife swap one night..(yeah alchohol was involved)...then HE left her for another woman...she never recovered from the hurt and DRANK herself to death....official cause of death was liver failure but we all knew she slowly commited suicide....food for thought
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I'd guess the wife swap was his idea and she quietly went along with it. Perhaps not, but I've seen this happen before.
 
In a way, smoking a pack of cigs a day is a slow form of suicide as well
 
Aardvark154 said:
This sort of topic always gets me exercised as it brings up feelings of both sadness and outrage.

Some of you may remember when one of our nicest - if also forceful posters died (natural causes) about five years ago and a fellow TERBite who knew them outside of TERB, out of kindness to the rest of us, mentioned that they had died.

Out of their concern they were perhaps a bit too forthright in what they said, whereupon some lowlife pathetic excuse for a human, attempted to out the deceased to their family.
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I remember this. To this day I have never been more disgusted by any action.

Steph
 
I've been there, last year I had a nervous break down and had to be hospitalized. I was going through a lot in my personal life (C-36 didn't help and going to these threads when the fear mongering and paranoia was at its peak was also a bad idea) At the time it happened, I clearly wasn't in a rational state of mind. I did get help and I'm okay now.
 
I post here kind of sporadically so I don't know anything about the deceased members nor have I experienced the negative things here on TERB that many describe. When I read this thread, though, members do seem thoughtful, insightful, and genuinely saddened by these deaths. There are no doubt problems on TERB as there are in any community but there are clearly good people here too.

Thoughts and prayers to the deceased members and their families.
 
sex is just one aspect of life, and when you get a lot of sex, it can become boring. Getting no sex can also lead to unhappiness in some and to others it is a non-factor. People are all wired differently. Sex can give you a brief rush of joy and pleasure, but if there are other things in your life making you miserable, lots of sex is not gonna fix it. Considering how many people people off themselves each year, a couple of members checking out would not be surprising. In fact it would probably be less then the average suicide rate for the population.
 
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