There is nothing wrong with putting personal experiences like this on the net but it does need to be done very carefully especially when it comes to self harming. These things are quite genuinely contagious. One of the biggest risk factors to becoming a statistic is knowing someone who has taken their own life.
Seemed to be the case with this:
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Zac and Taylor are buried together at Eastern Cemetery, I saw the grave one of the times I was there (I know a few people at that cemetery, been to 22 funerals in 5 years).
You don't always have to know the person who committed suicide to for it to have an effect, I learned this when I happened to be on a train that hit a man who wanted to commit suicide. Needless to say it worked, I didn't see the body, but the car was a mess and it's an image I'll never forget. I'm glad I had good enough mental strength at the time, it happened at a time when I was dealing with the fact that the guy I liked had just got into a relationship with someone else, I'd liked this guy for a long time and it was deeply painful for me. I should have been used to it though, My father left before I was born and I'd suffered a lot of rejection since then, but I guess I still have human emotions after all lol. Sometimes it doesn't feel that way, for a while I went numb and didn't feel anything... it was scary.
I was on the way to church in Melbourne when the accident happened, and after it I chose to take the coach provided, looking back I shouldn't have, my head was all over the place and I kept forgetting what I was doing. I was late getting into church and had to sit up in the balcony which gave me a great view of the guy I liked and his girlfriend holding hands... didn't help. The week after that our youth pastor told us he had cancer. Over the next 2 years I didn't see him much, but he looked very ill.
One day two years later he admitted that he didn't really have cancer. My head was spinning for a couple of weeks, I'm usually very good at picking people who aren't reliable, this one was a good liar, and had shown physical symptoms of being ill. He would vomit and convulse, but it was because of guilt rather than cancer. The reason he did it in the first place was because he'd had what he called an addiction to porn since he was 12, and since his father was a well respected pastor and he was at church a lot he didn't want anyone to know, and became a youth pastor and lived a double life.
His guilt over the porn issue was causing him to vomit a lot, and he had to explain why this was happening, but instead of telling the truth he came with the cancer story. He was the last person on Earth I would have expected to do something like that, not because he was a youth pastor, but because he always seemed very genuine and caring. He received a lot of money from people who thought he was sick, and when he came clean he handed himself into the fraud squad and worked on getting the money back to everyone.
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The lady I was buying my motorcycle off also lied about having cancer, her children were 6 and 10 at the time. She also lied about her husband beating and raping her. As soon as the bike was paid off I had nothing to do with her again. Two years later she was arrested because she tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband :shock: She told me about that when I was hanging around with her, but I didn't believe her. She was always telling BS stories to people including the cancer one (which came back to bite her, she got breast cancer).
Wife's plot to murder | Geelong, VIC, Australia
Our friend went down with her, he had some involvement, but I've talked to Rick about it, and he believes our friend was sucked in by his ex wife and doesn't hold any ill will towards Wayne. It was very interesting hearing all about it when we went to court!
If I had been in a bad place mentally I'm not sure if I would have been able to get through all that, I've had suicidal thoughts in my short life time too... scary place to be.
Am I insane yet??? :lol:
