GoodPersonEffed
Brevity is my middle name, but my name was TL
- Jan 11, 2020
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It's a forum. People ask questions and people answer questions. I get that.
However, people see a question and often just fart out answers without knowing wtf they're talking about. It's what people do. Sometimes they're not even farting, they're genuinely in error. That includes new members who have been here for a minute, read a handful of posts, and start answering questions like they know what they're talking about, particularly about SN. That includes people who have been here a long time.
Use your critical thinking skills. If someone says, "I read somewhere" or "I think," ask them to provide a source. Notice how long they've been on the forum, check their previous posts and see if they seem like they know what they're talking about, look at the reacts on those posts and the responses from others that agreed or disagreed. Don't just put your life and well-being in the hands of random strangers. To be blunt, it's a dumbass move with potentially extreme repercussions.
Every day, someone asserts to be true an unfounded "fact" or opinion about SN, like that it leads to brain or kidney damage, or that the method only takes 10-20 minutes, or that it is either utterly painless or excruciatingly painful. It gets exhausting to constantly correct these things, is disheartening to see them day in and day out, and no matter how many conscientious members try to keep up, sometimes farts still slip through because the mods don't keep up with it so it's the members who have to, and we don't have to. It's your responsibility. If you're new, you might not yet be able to discern the odor of farts, and remember, everyone likes the smell of their own aroma, it doesn't usually stink to them, even if they're told it stinks.
This is a forum in which answers are literally of life or death importance. If you're considering using SN or any other method, inform yourself. Get to know the Resources Compilation stickied thread for ALL methods. Read Stan's Guide to SN, which is an easy to read and comprehensive guide about SN, how it works, and how to do the method; it's not perfect, but it's reliable. For many methods including SN, read the PPeH if you can get an untampered copy, and then follow up with other resources to be sure you got good information. Research online the short- and long-term effects of any method. Read the SN successes and failures thread and read what people experienced when they took SN and how some fucked up so you won't make the same mistakes. Consider testing your SN for purity with the aquarium test kit strips and/or the blood test.
The forum is not a drive-thru where you can request the quickest, cheapest painless method and go to it -- would that it were, but suicide is not that easy. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many threads and active members.
It's your death. Only you can make the choice to do it (or take the choice, if that's what they say where you're from). Only you can decide how to do it, though by all means, talk it out if that helps you decide on a method. No one can plan your suicide for you (though Stan's Guide comes as close as it gets). No one can suicide for you. If you've researched a method and have questions, ask them, but it's still on you to research and discern if the answers you get are accurate or not. When it comes to actually doing it, if you make an error in your method or want to bail out, no one can go to the hospital for you, go to the psych ward for you, or deal with all the shit afterward like physical and emotional recovery, losing a job, or people becoming hypervigilant.
Own your shit, because whether you can or not, no one else can. If you take bad advice because you didn't research, it's on you, not the person who farted out false information.
However, people see a question and often just fart out answers without knowing wtf they're talking about. It's what people do. Sometimes they're not even farting, they're genuinely in error. That includes new members who have been here for a minute, read a handful of posts, and start answering questions like they know what they're talking about, particularly about SN. That includes people who have been here a long time.
Use your critical thinking skills. If someone says, "I read somewhere" or "I think," ask them to provide a source. Notice how long they've been on the forum, check their previous posts and see if they seem like they know what they're talking about, look at the reacts on those posts and the responses from others that agreed or disagreed. Don't just put your life and well-being in the hands of random strangers. To be blunt, it's a dumbass move with potentially extreme repercussions.
Every day, someone asserts to be true an unfounded "fact" or opinion about SN, like that it leads to brain or kidney damage, or that the method only takes 10-20 minutes, or that it is either utterly painless or excruciatingly painful. It gets exhausting to constantly correct these things, is disheartening to see them day in and day out, and no matter how many conscientious members try to keep up, sometimes farts still slip through because the mods don't keep up with it so it's the members who have to, and we don't have to. It's your responsibility. If you're new, you might not yet be able to discern the odor of farts, and remember, everyone likes the smell of their own aroma, it doesn't usually stink to them, even if they're told it stinks.
This is a forum in which answers are literally of life or death importance. If you're considering using SN or any other method, inform yourself. Get to know the Resources Compilation stickied thread for ALL methods. Read Stan's Guide to SN, which is an easy to read and comprehensive guide about SN, how it works, and how to do the method; it's not perfect, but it's reliable. For many methods including SN, read the PPeH if you can get an untampered copy, and then follow up with other resources to be sure you got good information. Research online the short- and long-term effects of any method. Read the SN successes and failures thread and read what people experienced when they took SN and how some fucked up so you won't make the same mistakes. Consider testing your SN for purity with the aquarium test kit strips and/or the blood test.
The forum is not a drive-thru where you can request the quickest, cheapest painless method and go to it -- would that it were, but suicide is not that easy. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many threads and active members.
It's your death. Only you can make the choice to do it (or take the choice, if that's what they say where you're from). Only you can decide how to do it, though by all means, talk it out if that helps you decide on a method. No one can plan your suicide for you (though Stan's Guide comes as close as it gets). No one can suicide for you. If you've researched a method and have questions, ask them, but it's still on you to research and discern if the answers you get are accurate or not. When it comes to actually doing it, if you make an error in your method or want to bail out, no one can go to the hospital for you, go to the psych ward for you, or deal with all the shit afterward like physical and emotional recovery, losing a job, or people becoming hypervigilant.
Own your shit, because whether you can or not, no one else can. If you take bad advice because you didn't research, it's on you, not the person who farted out false information.
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