He trolled a poster who said he was going to "pray for someone" by incessantly asking what exactly it means to pray for someone. Like, "What does that mean, praying for someone? What's the process behind that?" As for the OP, I believe "I lost someone" is a major faux pas. The most appropriate wording would be "He bounced". Especially if he jumped off a building.
I can actually see Swoly's response to this question in my head. It makes a claim based on absolutely nothing remotely logical and includes contradictory smilie emoticons.
I'm just saying, saying you lost someone conjures up an involuntary thing like cancer or a car accident. It's like how people say "we broke up" when in actuality they got dumped. If wording games aren't as important as some of you in the thread is saying,then why do people do it?
better example. kids whose dads walked out on them, do you think they say they lost their dad or that their dad left them?
Because people classify death as death. We don't really talk about it all the time and when we do we tend to do so euphemistically. We aren't communicating how the person is no longer around. Just that they aren't. Just that they died. Just that we don't have them. I don't know that we have a euphemism for suicide comparable to the one we have for general death. And suicide is very uncommon for many to discuss.
Doctors and psychologists consider chronic depression as a mental illness. Suicide can be for many reasons like chronic mental or physical pain. You're painting too much of a picture that can't be filled in when it comes to suicide
As someone who comes from a family that has been strongly affected by suicide, suicide attempts, and a variety of mental struggles/illness, I plead with you to do so some serious research on the subject. Please open your mind. Suicide by someone with a legitimate mental illness is just as "valid" of a death as someone with a physical ailment.
