Virginia Beach, VA - Woman killed by pet python

[wilomn]

Someone in this thread mentioned something about lung cancer and suicide and how those deaths are treated.

I know two people who killed themselves. I will kick both of their asses so badly when I see them again that if they ever get the chance to off themselves again, they won't. I cried at both funerals and am angry and sad and disappointed to this day and it's been years.

My friends made STUPID mistakes. I understand why, just as I understand why this woman made HER stupid mistake, they made them.

I'll not be sugar coating it and making excuses. I'm all the things I mentioned, which some of you seem to think is necessary and ALL that should be felt for and thought of the dead.

I simply disagree.

Let's talk lung cancer. Let's compare nicotine addiction to stupidity.

You KNOW it is addicting in the EXTREME.

You KNOW it is LIKELY, not possible but PROBABLY GOING TO HAPPEN, that your LIFE will be SHORTENED by injesting this drug.

You KNOW you may well DIE by injesting this drug.

You have seen friends and strangers DIE by injesting this drug.

No one made you take it. No one is forcing you to continue taking it.
Don't EVEN come crying to me about how hard it is to quit, YOU started this habit KNOWING it would be but you probaly thought you were the one it a hundred who could quit just because you wanted to. YOU did it to YOU.

Tell me again why I should feel sorry for you STUPID action?

I've got a brother who has smoked for over 30 years. He's younger than me and looks older, his lungs are full of crap, his teeth are yellow and his gums are in bad shape. His skin is wrinkled and he stinks all the time from his smoking.

For over 30 years I've told him it was a stupid habit. If he dies from it I will at his wake lament the fact that he was addicted to a drug that he knew could well be a serious detriment to his health and that because of that I don't have my little brother anymore. That doesn't mean I don't care or won't miss him, it just means that truth is important. If you cover up the truth you do a disservice to your fellow man. For my own self I can't do that in this type of situation.

Be it snakes or drugs or driving fast or what have you, when someone dies by making a STUPID mistake, not a newbie mistake or a mistake all unknowing, others can benefit from the knowledge of how that mistake was made. They, your fellow man, will learn nothing if it is glossed over or covered up.

So again, if you would, explain to me why saying this woman did a STUPID thing is rude? It may not be kind, but it's the truth. If she didn't want it to be the truth she should have followed THE RULE.