I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,172

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298119/Kylie-Grimes-Paralympians-account-swimming-pool-accident-turned-tragedy-hospital-staff-botched-treatment.html

Jeeesus. Incompetent f**kwits.

Quote: Oldrocker @ March 24 2013, 12:21 PM GMT

Two clues . . Audi TT . driver a man in his 20s

And snow or black ice ?

http://www.livescience.com/11208-high-suicide-risk-prejudice-plague-transgender-people.html

http://www.queerty.com/did-a-daily-mail-article-lead-to-transgender-womans-suicide-20130323/

So with regards to the tragic suicide of lucy Meadows. If 41% of transgndered people attempt suicide. Far above any other minority (except Kamikaze pilots). Is perhaps the problem that being transgnedered is a condition which makes one uniquely suseptible to suicide like black people and Sickle Cell?

Think it's far more likely to be depression brought on by the way they feel about themselves, and the way society treats them, to be honest. But I ain't no doctor!

I always think of you as:

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That is very me.

Lots of people get depressed and don't kill them selves

Quote: sootyj @ March 24 2013, 7:27 PM GMT

Lots of people get depressed and don't kill them selves

I can vouch for that.

But it can bring with it some chances which again, I can vouch for.

Freudian slip . . changes !

:)

What percentage of people who kill themselves are depressed though? Pretty near to 100, I'd imagine!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/24/boris-johnson-interview-eddie-mair

Quote: zooo @ March 24 2013, 7:30 PM GMT

What percentage of people who kill themselves are depressed though? Pretty near to 100, I'd imagine!

It's true, they don't tend to be a jolly, happy-go-lucky lot.

Yep, funny that!

Maybe some people are so happy they kill thmesleve because things won't get any better

:D

Quote: sootyj @ March 24 2013, 7:27 PM GMT

Lots of people get depressed and don't kill them selves

But they probably think about it. What's the fine line between thinking about it and doing it?