Flight to nowhere
C works for an international airline and it looks like a passenger committed suicide on one of the incoming flights over the weekend (it's still being investigated). C believes that it could quite possibly be one of the first such occurrences in the airline industry.
How sad is that? And it pisses me off too.
Iit's sad because you don't know if this person was supposed to be leaving their loved ones or coming to them. Did the people who said good bye know it was going to be the last time, or were people waiting in anticipation to welcome this person? It doesn't matter if it's on a personal or professional level, because really, when someone commits suicide, it's got to hit home all the same. That person chose to take their own life.
I'm mad too. Listening to C and hearing him tell it, you know he was affected. And you know the other passengers on the plane were affected. And you know the cabin crew were affected.
They say suicide is a selfish act and it's true. Done in the privacy of your home, it hurts your loved ones when they're left to deal with the aftermath. That's huge. And then doing it in this manner, you hurt complete and total strangers, by virtue of occupying that seat. It's going to haunt them, whether they they tried to help someone that didn't want to be helped, or just simply witnessed someone who actively willed their own life force to drain itself. The ripple effect is left behind in those strangers and their loved ones.
It's just so fucking wrong. If you're going to end your pain, fine, but don't think just because you don't know someone, they're not going to care.
I don't understand what brings a person to such depths of despair, yet I do recognize and accept that people have and will continue to take their own lives. For some people that's the only solution and that's their choice. No matter how much awareness is raised and what methods of prevention there are, it will happen.
And how I wish the effects and repercussions on others could be minimized. In particular, so that I wouldn't see my husband wake up the next morning, feeling fragile and in his own personal hell, if only for a brief moment in time.
How sad is that? And it pisses me off too.
Iit's sad because you don't know if this person was supposed to be leaving their loved ones or coming to them. Did the people who said good bye know it was going to be the last time, or were people waiting in anticipation to welcome this person? It doesn't matter if it's on a personal or professional level, because really, when someone commits suicide, it's got to hit home all the same. That person chose to take their own life.
I'm mad too. Listening to C and hearing him tell it, you know he was affected. And you know the other passengers on the plane were affected. And you know the cabin crew were affected.
They say suicide is a selfish act and it's true. Done in the privacy of your home, it hurts your loved ones when they're left to deal with the aftermath. That's huge. And then doing it in this manner, you hurt complete and total strangers, by virtue of occupying that seat. It's going to haunt them, whether they they tried to help someone that didn't want to be helped, or just simply witnessed someone who actively willed their own life force to drain itself. The ripple effect is left behind in those strangers and their loved ones.
It's just so fucking wrong. If you're going to end your pain, fine, but don't think just because you don't know someone, they're not going to care.
I don't understand what brings a person to such depths of despair, yet I do recognize and accept that people have and will continue to take their own lives. For some people that's the only solution and that's their choice. No matter how much awareness is raised and what methods of prevention there are, it will happen.
And how I wish the effects and repercussions on others could be minimized. In particular, so that I wouldn't see my husband wake up the next morning, feeling fragile and in his own personal hell, if only for a brief moment in time.
posted by Currin Girl at 11:33 AM
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