Hello loves! Here's what's on my mind today:
I'm curious as to when suicide became something you could joke about. I mean, when did someone being so unhappy with themselves and their life that they decided to murder themselves become funny? When did death become funny?
Obviously, there's the "funny" deaths in cartoons, where Tom the cat gets flattened by a car. Naturally, in reality, the cat would be dead. This Three Stooges type humor is common and, yes, proceeds with a giggle from my recliner. The thing about this kind of humor in TV and movies and Hollywood productions, is that it's fake. I don't feel guilty laughing about it because I know the actor or actress is fine. (Special effects are just marvelous, don't you agree?)
Of course, there's also the crude-and sometimes legitimately hurtful-humor, where you laugh at someone who has tripped over a dip in the cement for example. When this happens to my friends, I laugh. I laugh when it happens to me! But anytime this happens, the first reaction is not for me to laugh, it's for me to gasp and make sure that person is okay. After I know they're not terribly hurt, I laugh at them (or myself...most of the time it's myself...).
And then there's always the bullies who tease the "weird kid" and purposely trip them. But I won't rant about bullying today, that will by some other day (and trust me, it will happen).
The thing that really makes me shake with anger, is when people make jokes about suicide. Whether that's laughing at someone, saying they're "emo" and a "cutter" and saying that these people are going to go home and kill themselves, or holding scissors or knives and saying "I'm gonna kill myself!" in a mocking tone. It's insulting. It's insulting and inconsiderate to both those who suffer with suicidal thoughts and to those with friends and family who are suicidal or have already committed suicide.
Today, at school, a girl took one of the sharp knives in the culinary arts classroom and started have screaming, half laughing, shouting "I can't take it anymore! I just can't take it anymore!". She carried on like this, with about a 7 inch long knife pressed to her throat.
I didn't find it funny at all. I'm not sure if it's just because I know people who have attempted suicide or are suicidal, but I don't think it really matters. I just don't understand how someone could think that's funny. This is a capitol crime we're talking about here. It'smurder. You don't go running around joking about how you're going to kill someone and go into detail about how you're going to achieve that and expect people to still think you're joking. It just doesn't work like that.
Thanks for listening everyone, I'll talk to you soon.
Suicide isn't funny. Neither are your jokes.
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I totally agree. I hate it when people do that:/
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