I just read the article posted at the top of the page from IrishCentral, and noticed some things. Here are a few quotes and my responses:
"'Early that morning she was " skipping around, she seemed great," a female friend said."
- Doesn't really sound like someone suicidal to me. In most cases people who are suicidal tend to separate their bonds (to whatever degree) shortly before their act.
"But after lunch Phoebe, seemed increasingly despondent to friends. She described an incident of bullying to them and said "I'll find a way out of this problem.""
- To me this actually sounds like it could have been more optimistic than anything. This is a statement in writing, with lack of vocal inflection to determine the spirit of her statement, so I can see how to the reader it looks more ominous. It also wouldn't take much to twist this very same statement to her impressionable young friends in hind sight.
"Little did the friends know she was talking about killing herself."
- The author is still under the assumption that it was suicide, and thus inferred that the friends could not have derived any further meaning from what she said.
"Her death confounded her friends, who pointed out that she signed off her text messages with a saying "life is an opportunity in itself."
-If you put this together with the above statements, it sounds to me like despite what she was going through, she was an eternal optimist. Optimists tend not to off themselves because optimists tend to see the bright side of things, present and future.
Also might I point out that if she were a writer and poet, then surely somewhere in her writings she would have mentioned her lack of will to live, and surely she would have shared such writings with one of her closest friends. I'm just thinking back to my days in high school and how kids were. It would be nice to know what was in her writings the week of her death.
"'Early that morning she was " skipping around, she seemed great," a female friend said."
- Doesn't really sound like someone suicidal to me. In most cases people who are suicidal tend to separate their bonds (to whatever degree) shortly before their act.
"But after lunch Phoebe, seemed increasingly despondent to friends. She described an incident of bullying to them and said "I'll find a way out of this problem.""
- To me this actually sounds like it could have been more optimistic than anything. This is a statement in writing, with lack of vocal inflection to determine the spirit of her statement, so I can see how to the reader it looks more ominous. It also wouldn't take much to twist this very same statement to her impressionable young friends in hind sight.
"Little did the friends know she was talking about killing herself."
- The author is still under the assumption that it was suicide, and thus inferred that the friends could not have derived any further meaning from what she said.
"Her death confounded her friends, who pointed out that she signed off her text messages with a saying "life is an opportunity in itself."
-If you put this together with the above statements, it sounds to me like despite what she was going through, she was an eternal optimist. Optimists tend not to off themselves because optimists tend to see the bright side of things, present and future.
Also might I point out that if she were a writer and poet, then surely somewhere in her writings she would have mentioned her lack of will to live, and surely she would have shared such writings with one of her closest friends. I'm just thinking back to my days in high school and how kids were. It would be nice to know what was in her writings the week of her death.
