WTF Stories of the Week

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Hmm, would a thread asking for everyone's "Overly Dramatic Suicide Ideas" be too wrong?

Humm, I don't know. However I'm fairly sure I would have a lot of company. Were I depressed enough to end it all, I'd take all of the SOB's that helped make me that way along for the ride.

I guess it's a good thing I'm a happy guy.

[Mousey Girl]

After seeing (and feeling) what happens to the people left behind, I have noticed my suicidal thoughts have diminished.

[Capt Jack]

agreed

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

I find it really odd to think that there are people who don't think about such things all of the time. I think about good things too.

I have similar thoughts, every single day. Bike riding in traffic can do this to me more than anything. Just one swerve, by me or by the cars, and it's all over - or I'm at least horribly crippled. I'm never truly tempted, of course.

An Orange City Council member was killed in a head on collision a couple years back. Lady was drunk and crossed the meridian. She was barely injured. He was in his 30's with a daughter in kindergarten, a local guy who'd worked hard for his community. The entire city mourned. Luck. Bad, bad luck.

I'm a happy person too. Even so, (or perhaps, because) these thoughts are around all the time, reminding me how lucky I am, every single day.

[Kevy Baby]

Woman has 140-pound tumor removed
Oregon mom was told for years she had to lose weight, but she couldn’t

REDMOND, Ore. - Throughout her life, Linda Rittenbach has struggled with her weight.

“You get bigger and bigger and bigger,” said Rittenbach, who has two grown children. “And then you go to your doctor and they tell you, ‘You need to lose weight — you’re fat!’”

Rittenbach had tried every diet, every workout, but the pounds wouldn’t go away. Doctors suggested weight loss surgery.

“But something in my head just said, ‘No, don’t do that,’” Rittenbach said last week.

It wasn’t until Rittenbach went to a different doctor this spring for flu-like symptoms that she found out what was really wrong.

Doctors told her a 140-pound cancerous tumor — a rare kind of liposcarcoma — was growing near her stomach. They said it had likely been growing for 15 to 20 years.

Full story

[JWBear]

Something very similar happened to a friend of mine. She had complained to her doctor (she had Cigna) for several years about problems she had. The doctor just kept telling her to lose weight. She switched her insurance to Kaiser and told her new doctor about her problems. The new doctor immediately ordered tests. They found a 10 lbs tumor in her abdomen. They removed it, and she’s fine now. If she hadn’t switched to Kaiser she could be dead by now.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Two old ladies sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering homeless men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Hmm, would a thread asking for everyone's "Overly Dramatic Suicide Ideas" be too wrong?

I always thought it would be a laugh to climb the Matterhorn and leap off it onto Sleeping Beauty's Castle, impailing myself on the gold spire.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Two old ladies sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering homeless men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives.

I heard about that when they were caught. I'm WTFing what they were thinking.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

I always thought it would be a laugh to climb the Matterhorn and leap off it onto Sleeping Beauty's Castle, impaling myself on the gold spire.

That would be one helluva leap!