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In reply to the discussion: Gal Gadots Seemingly Innocent Tribute To Stephen Hawking Pissed Off Some People [View all]uriel1972
(4,261 posts)And my quality of life is crap, I had been suicidal for most of my life.
However as far as I can tell dead is dead, you don't come back.
So, no matter how shitty your life is it's the only one you got.
To hear someone say you're better off dead is not helping.
In fact it's quite insulting.
Someone who has never met you and doesn't know you from soap,
gets up and says on international media "You are better off dead".
Yes, they didn't intend it to be that way, but in that instant it still hurts.
I am hurrt by that comment, whether that was the intent or not.
Why would anyone choose to criticize me for saying to them,
"Please don't say that kind of thing in the future, it is very hurtful."?
Why would anyone protest about not being able to call someone,
crippled, deformed, useless?
My mind boggles, but I am not surprised really.
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