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Sometimes reaching out to people may save some's life...

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About a month ago, I was perusing through Craigslist, because I have nothing better to do and I was feeling pretty shitty about myself when I came across a personal ad.  (I have no idea how I got there really!) The subject line was " o.O Im alone. Even in a crowd." The title alone was intriguing so as I read the actual body of the ad, I realized it was a suicide note .  The person writing the personal ad said that they've had enough of the bullshit and the liars of the world.  That "cutting" was no longer numbing the pain that they felt.  That there was no happiness in this world at all. That there was nothing but pain and misery in his future.  And that they were going to end it all and nobody would even notice because they were alone. And in pain. My first thought was, "No, surely, they don't mean what they say. Maybe he just want's someone to comfort  them in a weird sexual way."  But it kept gnawing at me.  What ...