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It's sad. People live in apartments and rarely know their neighbours, even next door neighbours. I think a lot of acts of desperation could be prevented if there was a more closer knit sense of community that would support the weaker members.
 
MutantScalper said:
It's sad. People live in apartments and rarely know their neighbours, even next door neighbours. I think a lot of acts of desperation could be prevented if there was a more closer knit sense of community that would support the weaker members.
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How so? It's not like all people who live in apartments have no relatives, or friends to speak to. If they decide to attempt suicide without telling their relatives, or friends, they sure as hell will not tell their neighbors.
 
I will become the building's therapist as soon as the whole Graphic Designer thing starts paying off....
I mean, it's sad and all, pretty shocking for me too because I had a corpse looking me in the eye firt thing in the morning, but my building has about 10 floors and 3 towers I am a reserved person by nature so I really doubt I could've done anything at all. It could've even been an accident as far as I know.

Maybe I made the first post on the incident sounds like I was cool and collected then, but I actually started screaming like a scared kid, I was shaking and even as I was going to work I felt like vomiting. Even called my mom because the woman seemed to be about her age.
 
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How so? It's not like all people who live in apartments have no relatives, or friends to speak to. If they decide to attempt suicide without telling their relatives, or friends, they sure as hell will not tell their neighbors.
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Well maybe at least some suicides could be stopped that way. It's not necessarily the close relatives that people like to talk to about their problems, it's sometimes easier to talk to outside people, like health care professionals or a neighbour.

Walpknut,

not blaming you in any way. I'm sure it was pretty unpleasant. I wonder if you could find out from the building caretaker what happened.
 
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She did indeed kill herself last night, they checked the cameras. Well that's disturbing, I heard someone falling to their death and I thought it was a pot falling off on my messy kitchen....
 
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You'll be alright.

It might take some time though.

Probably should get out and do something for yourself.
 
Well I went to work and completed 3 days of work in one day. I guess I tryhard focused to keep my mind off it.
 
If you weren't affected by seeing something like that, you wouldn't be human.
Then again, it is also human to process it duly, and with 3 days of work in one, it definitely sounds like you are - somehow - processing the hell out of it.

My uncle once came across a hanging man, in a tree, when out walking his dog. He was also, obviously, the first to spot, and the one who would have to call police and whatnot, I mean, who the hell do one even call? Ambulance? The guy's dead... It's a shocking and confusing situation.
 
I am not one to condemn or judge people who commit suicide, but couldn't she have done it in a way that wouldn't scare the shit out of everybody justry trying to get to work on a week day? There are families with children living in the building, what if the one to find her had been a little kid going out to school or someone with a heart condition? I mean, Jesus fuck.... I think I was the most preferable choice for finding her....
 
Odds work that way, sometime it's your turn to come across something like that :I
When I was little, my mom noticed smoke coming from a neighboring apartment, an unlikely spot in the night darkness, and along our own kitchen wall, she must have leaned out from the balcony or something.
Called fire department, ran to the next entrance to knock on doors and wake people up, in the burning apartment the family was allready up, african immigrants (war refugees) two boys downstairs, outside, the mother inside the burning flat screaming for her baby, eventually she leapt from the 3rd story, right into the ground, in front of all the neighbors, kept screaming for her baby, who remained inside the blaze

A helicopter had to take her to a speciality unit in Bergen (half across the country), and she died on her way there.

For everyone involved - a night they'll remember, and one that kept them all awake in those immediate nights to come.
Luckily I was little, and kept in my room, away from the drama (the fire was contained enough to prevent the whole block from needing evacuation)
 
For a couple of years I attented a school which was located between 3 pretty high apparatment buildings. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what happend after a weekend when you go to the the school in the morning and see a relatively large dried up pile of blood on the ground.

I guess people could find better ways to kill them self. However, when I am thinking about my own issues, I feel very simpathetic about those that suicide. However, I don't juste anyone who's killing themself, but you don't have to throw your self at a train or from a highway bridge, and eventually scare and even harm other people for the rest of their live.

But with saying this, I never was the kind of person who's believing that suiciders are weak or something. Sometimes I even think, well it's understandable, considering the story/situation. Everyone has a breaking point, and there is sometimes very little you can do.
 
Walpknut said:
She did indeed kill herself last night, they checked the cameras. Well that's disturbing, I heard someone falling to their death and I thought it was a pot falling off on my messy kitchen....
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Similar thing happened to me half a year ago. Didn't affect me at all though because at that same time my (now ex) girlfriend tried to off herself. Fun Sunday that was, oh yes.
 
Maybe it's just my job, but now if I ever see a hanged man or a dead body in the street I probably go like "Aw, dammit. I guess it's a lot of paperwork now.". Guess you get used after a while. It also doesn't help that usually the paperwork has to be done in your own hours, after you are done being at your post, like the fact that you'll have to stay extra hours and not go home right away overcomes whatever shock a dead body may cause, so it's always good not to be first on scene. Last one I saw was in a hallway right outside of his apartment, the paramedics were first on the scene, tried to save him but couldn't, aparently he had a stroke and died as he was trying to get to the hospital, so it wasn't gruesome or anything, like the one that got run over by a bus (worse I've seen yet), if anything the grief of the family "affected" me more than the body, which by the way was in the middle of the dooway so we had to go over it in order to enter and exit the aprtment, I was more concerned on being respectful for the family and the poor guy when doing this rather than the fact I was trying not to step on a corpse.
 
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On a lighter note, and to keep the thread going, I have chosen my "generic religious antagonist" for my graphic novel project (still in planning stages)

I really don't want to end up anthraxed, so as much as I respect normal, ordinary Muslims, there's no way I'm gonna include islamist terrorists or armies in my story.

Among other religious groups, most of them are quite peaceful, but even then, I don't wanna single any one of them out, and create some kind of impression, like, I don't wanna make it seem like I got something particular against be it Hindus or Catholics or whatever, but I still need a massive, religious force

Mormons!
I'm pretty sure Mormons won't come after me OR take it particularily personal if I make them them one of the opposing forces of the protagonist.
Also, I can combine this with a "Murricuh!" sentiment, since these forces will fight conquests in many parts of the world, and primarily descend from the US (which at the time is broken up into many different countries, most of them loosely held together, with rather minimal territorial integrity. This is world-wide by the way, countries correspond roughly to countries of today, with the main exception of broken up super-states/federations, and fewer exceptions of new empires from previously smaller countries. I imagine countries being mostly "theoretical", in reality coming down to networks of city states and their territories)

Americans are safe to screw with - which is a compliment to you guys. Fat, gun-toting fanatics that you are :V Nah, but really, whatcha think? Are there other, better candidates for possible future world conquering religious armies? Well, candidates that are unlikely to murder comic-book artists over it?
 
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Mormons are funny. I live in a pretty small town but there's a mormon 'church' nearby. I sometimes see them walking around going door to door, which can be super annoying. Other groups do that too, including Jehova's Witnesses and even some Christian groups. It sounds terrible but to me, personally, it is more annoying when they come ring my door bell then some far away act of terrorism.

Plus Mormonism is pretty out there.
 
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There's a mormon church in the capital of my province too, right near the trainstation. It's a very modern looking building, very square and a bit shiny.

I see regular christians (I think) standing outside that trainstation too. In the exit where all the students come through. With leaflets and what not. I feel sorry for them, standing out there in the cold all day.
 
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I opted more for a fictional religion (mostly because there is magic involved and it takes place on a different world than our own). Altho they are kind of a colonizing religion so their ranks and members are actually pretty diverse ethnicity wise while being heavily culturaly homogenized.
 
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I opted more for a fictional religion (mostly because there is magic involved and it takes place on a different world than our own). Altho they are kind of a colonizing religion so their ranks and members are actually pretty diverse ethnicity wise while being heavily culturaly homogenized.
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Without divulging too much, I am going to pit a new religion versus the established religions, with the end point that all religions are manufactured control tools (this will obviously insult many, even if I dislike insulting people.. :D)

I'll be toying with a matrix-akira-esque notion of "anomalies", individuals who can transcend physical boundaries - as in - do magic, and they are systematically recruited by an "overlord" of sorts, and given very specific tasks and identities, wether they like it or not, forming a polytheistic system of "divine" rulers (all in the name of "everything was better before" - way before, back when god-kings lived in temples, and walked among mortals)
 
I will go further than that and actually make it an Anarchy agenda pushing story. I can already smell the hate mail (if I can actually publish it, that is).
 
Walpknut said:
I will go further than that and actually make it an Anarchy agenda pushing story. I can already smell the hate mail (if I can actually publish it, that is).
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Anarchy? We're aiming for a closer conclusion than you think :D

And yeah, I'm not an eager friend of big society, I have a novel of 500 000 words just sitting, waiting, probably indefinitely, I'm very... troglodytish when it comes to such stuff. Hell, just the idea of sending publishers a pile of papers, it feels as if a rude imposition, even if it is their job... :D

People kept telling me to draw the novel instead, which is unrealistic and absurd, but they have a point - comics are easyer to market, and I always did want to make a graphic novel, but I am obviously going to make a new story for it, completely unrelated to the novels (which are dark humor space opera)

I am very happy with the novel, which I have corrected many, many times, untill I was eventually satisfied. Over a hundred pages of redundancy removed. But that makes me even more nervous, because I consider it so finished, so polished, if I were to recieve a list of things to fix, remove, alter, the thought disturbs me... And I know it's lame, to fear something like that, since every author must go through it, but hey... that's how it is :I
 
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