About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I recently came to the realization that staying alive to prevent my share of an inheritance from going to the greedy removed who married my father late-in-life is a reason to stay alive. That’s fucking sad as fuck.

    Don’t get me wrong. I love my life. But when something so dark and grim can be phrased as a positive, things are really wrong.

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      1 year ago

      Spite can be a very effective motivator too, you know, lol! To live in spite of the shitty world around us, I see that as kinda romantic, even heroic.