[ SECRET POST #4268 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4268 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can already tell this is going to be a deeply stupid thread, fuck me.

I think the time immediately after someone's death - while it's not impervious to all judgment - does demand a certain amount of empathy and an attempt at understanding. In many cases of drug ODs, the choices that someone made involve a lot of stupidity, and also frequently the presence of addiction, which is a real thing, a real disease, that's immensely hard to overcome. Even if someone made the choices that ultimately led them down that path, I think it's appropriate to be empathetic towards the end result and the suffering that they went through. I think looking at it through some kind of morally superior "Well, you chose to do drugs, so you deserved everything else that happened to you" is some fucked-ass shit, and I don't understand it.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Very well put.

[philstar22]

This.

[(Anonymous)]

THANK YOU. So many people seem to lack basic empathy.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes addiction is a disease. But like any disease if you CHOOSE to not treat it then it's on you. No one should get a free pass for being an asshole or promoting others to fall down the hole of addiction.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who’s lost my mom, her parents, her older brother, my dad, and his older brother to drug and/or alcohol addiction, fuck you. I’ve never taken any illegal drugs or otc ones stronger than ibuprofen, drank alcohol, or smoked cigarettes, and my relatives who picked themselves up over and over to go to rehab yet again are just as dead as the ones that committed suicide because they couldn’t take it anymore. Only one of them was a terrible person who encouraged others to join him; the rest desperately wanted to not be addicts anymore and didn’t want company in their misery.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Just wanted to pass along my condolences to you. I'm so sorry you and your family have had to experience that much loss.

[(Anonymous)]

But like any disease if you CHOOSE to not treat it then it's on you.

It fucks with your mind

[(Anonymous)]

regardless of whether this is true

(and it's about as nuanced as a block of mozzarella)

is it really the kind of message that people need shoved into their faces while grieving someone who meant something important to them?

like. for fuck's sake, if you're ~concerned about the children~ it's an opportunity to say, hey, this person *struggled* with drugs and it *hurt* them, regardless of how much they sometimes claimed to enjoy themselves (or how irresponsible you think they are, despite having a supremely distorted view that our culture allows for public figures) and this is what drugs do

sympathies to them being gone and you missing them, because fuck drugs

is so much more effective as a counter-message to "drugs are cool" than "fuck that person you worship, they deserved to die and you're dumb for liking them"

that's only going to hurt people who are already hurting and convince no one (and probably spur on some users just out of spite, let's be real)

[(Anonymous)]

You know the most likely time for people to overdose and die is immediately after completing rehab, right? They CHOSE to put in the hard work treating their problem, their tolerance goes back to normal levels, and then the next hit is fatal (or often, antidepressants or sleeping medication they're prescribed to help the medical transition combine with the drugs in question, especially alcohol, for a fatal result).