Is it normal to feel this way?

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2 - 3 months back a teacher very active in the world of politics in the local area where i live (Another town) jumped off a bridge for unknown reasons, well they are unknown to anyone who was not close to him i believe. They found his corpse a few days ago.. After reading the article i started feeling bad, and i mean very very bad. I used to be at that College (Well danish college that is) and i had him as a teacher a bunch of times, never talked alot with him though. But when reading the news about him something just struck deep inside of me, like i almost felt sick or something?..

I wonder if it could have anything to do with the fact that a guy in my class during the college time took his own life too, a very tragic event for the whole school/education place. And he was really a nice guy, such a waste of life.

Am i just having alittle bit too much weight on my shoulders?.. Something i should let go?... I never even knew the guy, and i never really cared for the classes i had with him either... But something about that whole suicide thing.. And specially when someone jumps off a bridge?.. Damn.

IIN? Perhaps i'm just too sensitive.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    I don't get how you connect that this has anything to do with you.

    Usually when someone does that they were thinking about it for a while and something just broke the last straw for them.

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    • AwkwardLemonJuice
      9 years ago

      I know it has nothing to do with me.. I just wonder why it hit me so hard.... But i guess it's normal to feel sorry for someone who took their own life.

      If it's nothing you can relate to that's allrite.. But honestly, sometimes i just find it easy to dwell on stuff like that... It both shocks me and kinda gives me a weird rush at the same time.. Like, what did that person think right before jumping etc etc.

      All this sad stuff led me to watch The Bridge.. One sad documentary, and i usually don't watch that kind of stuff but i just felt like it.

      Peace! Love life :P

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      • [Old Memory]
        9 years ago

        I can relate that it's hard dealing with suicide.
        One of my best friends commited suicide a couple years ago. I knew him for 17 years.
        I know it had nothing to do with me, but I still wonder if I could have made a difference. I talked to him a couple days before and wasn't in the best mood myself at the time. I do wish I had better things to say.

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        • AwkwardLemonJuice
          9 years ago

          I'm sorry to hear so.. R.I.P..

          I kinda figured out why i might dwell on this stuff.. DEATH is the reason why, i started to think that.. We all are gonna die someday right?.. Some unlucky, some of age.. Some of disease it's so varied.

          But, the thing that makes these kind of cases so interesting for me is all alone death.. Like what the hell, it's a corpse by now.. But where did he or she really go afterwards?..

          Don't get me wrong if anyone ever does, i'm not suicidal and i want to live.. But i find it som damn fucking interesting.

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          • [Old Memory]
            9 years ago

            It's easy to obsess over death because it's a big part of life and is unavoidable. Everyone will know people to die before them. It's inevitable. It's important to not dwell on it though. Enjoy what you got while it lasts.

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