h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Suicide - Some of the moral issues - A820883
Author: James Rivington - U201034

I had been writing this one for some time. I send out a "newsletter" kind of thing to all my friends and aquaintences once every couple of weeks with some of my thoughts and some humourous stuff. My Pubic Hair entry that everyone hated was adapted from that.
So i decided to add this into H2G2 because I came conclusion that I didn't want to write about such a deep issue, especially not before I got a second opinion. To me it is a very relevant topic, as of course, I was the boy in the article (not the one who found the corpse thankfully) but the one who was touched by it and was suspended from school four years ago.

Let me know what you think. It may be completely unsuitable for this kind of forum - but anyway, it's worth a try. If you think I should, i will withdraw it (because I don't think i could really re-write it).

Cheers
James - Former plagiarizer

Hello James

[ By the way, have you seen A801550 - Suicide Prevention ? It's in Peer Review at F48874?thread=200992 ]

I have great respect for your piece, but to me it reads more like a Journal entry than an Edited Guide entry. I can well understand that it may have cost you a great deal to write it, and that you couldn't bring yourself to alter it at all, and I would strongly advise you that _for_your_own_sake_ you should remove it from Peer Review, at least for the time being.

If you would welcome some further comment on it, you could consider putting it into the Writing Workshop, where the pace and the ethos are rather different from the essentially judgmental function of Peer Review. If you decide to do that, it would be useful to indicate what sort of help you are seeking for it, and what if anything you would not be open to.

Otherwise, if you just want people to read it, you could post it as a Journal Entry, and maybe start a discussion on <./>Askh2g2</.>.

Best wishes.

Bels

HI James,

Thi is amn interesting article, I enjoyed reading it. A vast improvement on yout previous contribution. However, it does only put one side of a complex argument. Entries for the Edited Guide, if contoversal should be balanced.

There are those who would argue that everyone has the right to take their own life, not something I would agree with. You need to put this side af the argument if you want it to go ito the Edited Huide.

It could also be improved with bit of GuidleML, if only to seperate paragraphs and include paragraph headers. The Guide Markup Language is not hard to learn, and it even easier if you use Brunel! I managed in a week without ever having done any Markup Language before, not unless you count Ritch Text Format.



Stuart

if you want to talk about this sort of thing, I have a page at my website which covers the various positions on suicide.

see http://www.xyroth-enterprises.co.uk/suicide.htm

if you like we could get together and cooperate on an article for the edited guide about the moral issues of suicide.

try reading "the savage god" - A. Alvarez
provides a lot of information on suicide, and societies changing persepctions of it.

Sorry for the delayed reply. I haven't been able to get online much recently.

Yeah, that sounds really good.

How do you wanna go about it?