I can agree with you on that topic. The media especially has a tendency to sensationalize or dramatize suicides with no regards to consequence. I don't believe the Destiny forums are necessarily the place for these kinds of posts, but at the same time I understand that people need to grieve. Some people drink to do so, some people play video games. If a short post on the forums is how this person wants to grieve, that's fine by me, so long as they're not taking the event and sensationalizing it in an effort to draw attention to themselves or by some other means turn the event into some political stand. I'd rather the OP jump onto the forums and vent than to go out drinking, for pretty obvious reasons if you read the spoiler.
I also agree that Dmg did the right thing here; his post was a simple "sorry for your loss, here are some numbers you can call if you need to talk to someone.". That was the right answer.
I hope your suicide awareness courses are better than the ones we got when I was in the Army. Those honestly felt like tutorials on how to succeed in committing, rather than how to prevent, suicides. I remember one particular course where the speaker went on and on about different ways people were committing suicide. It was like a 10 minute course on what signs to look for when a buddy might be depressed or suicidal and what to do when you think they are, followed by a 20 minute course on several different ways to successfully commit suicide. >. >
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