Suicide is death, and death is not funny, ever. But most of the time, it is stupid. And stupid things are usually funny.

People who are sick who kill themselves I understand. Sort of. I mean I don't necessarily agree, but I understand. People who get really depressed and then try to kill themselves, I don't understand, especially when there are so many treatment options. What I really don't get is someone who kills himself over a girlfriend or losing a job. Because there are lots of women and lots of jobs out there, and waiting for the next one to come along seems infinitely more preferable than killing yourself and never having another girlfriend or job again.

I saw on 60 Minutes where these college kids were getting easy credit and running up enormous debt. And they were talking to these two women whose kids killed themselves over it and they wanted to make the credit card companies pay!!! But isn't the parent responsible for teaching the kid about money, and isn't the kid responsible for taking his own life? Why does everyone think that suicide ends suffering? Its true that the dead person doesn't have to pay the money back, but it seems an awful steep price to pay.

Most people don't seem to believe in Hell or the Devil so that's really a non-argument. Most people do believe in God and Heaven, but when you really press them they have no idea what kind of God or Heaven they expect to find and their decision to kill themself has little to do with any hope for an after-life. Anyway if someone truly believes himself to be a total loser then he probably also questions what kind of eternal award awaits him. If he believes in God at all, he thinks God's got it in for him, so I question the logic behind rushing ahead to meet Him.

Let's say a guy is depressed and he tells you he thinks of himself as a total loser and wants to kill himself. He has some vague notion of God and Heaven and is ready to just get it over with. But what would God want with a total loser anyway? And why would someone want to spend eternity with a God who's got it in for him? Well, then, the suicide guy tells you that God loves everyone and made us all special and blah blah blah and pretty soon what he's saying is that he doesn't truly believe that he's a loser after all, he just decided that life was too hard and ending it is his best option. Which technically makes him a loser. Ok, so maybe I shouldn't be talking people down off ledges.

Its probably cliche to want to jump off the Empire State Building. They probably have all kinds of fences and security anyway. Jumping off the Empire State Building is a pretty ambitious method of suicide, especially considering you'd be just as dead jumping off a five-story building. Its apparent that anyone able to commit suicide this way knows how to set goals and accomplish them. It's a shame in this case they'd be dead.