No, the stupid thing is he never saw "Death of a Salesman". Suicide isn't covered under life insurance. The selfish twat paid lip service to how important his girls were, then pulled his angsty "I'm too gawth to remove the staple from my forhead! Woe is me!" he was a truly selfish prick and too many people have sung his praises like he was a martyr. You know what a gothic martyr is? It's someone who's just a fuckup.
That's the thing, I don't believe he WAS sick. Knowing him as I did (not as well as some, mind you, but we were close at one time), it was part of his game. Intervention doesn't work anyway. If he had actually wanted help, he most likely would have accepted it from at least one of us who were genuinely attempting to look after his well being. There were countless times that we watched him go through the routine of "Hey! Look at me! I'm darque and fucked up and nothing in the world can save me! So, I'm bad news Dottie, and blah, blah, blah..."
I've watched, I've tried to help, I've witnessed the reality of actual depression, actual alcoholism, actual mental instability, and he didn't really fit the bill, from what I ever saw. I watched him act all strong for his loved ones and also watch him shit it all away, repeatedly, so that he could have his two dimensional persona. He was little more than a character in a Bulwer-Lytton novel.
relativistic trutheyeblendJanuary 23 2010, 02:03:14 UTC
No one will do something under the effect of alcohol, that they won't do otherwise. Blaming the drink is a copout. Yes, it definitely alters your thinking and makes you more apt to pull some stupidness, but in no way will it take complete control and do its own thing. Alcohol has no soul, it has no consciousness, no big plan. The only person, thing, or circumstance to blame, is dead. HE did it, nothing else. He had his own messed up version as to the truth and reality and he only thought of his own self, not even the little people he helped create. Whether he had a policy or not, it doesn't matter, it isn't the point. He put absolutely no real thought into how his actions would ever affect anyone else.
Knowing Donald, he probably got it in his head that he was rising to a higher plane, releasing his soul from this mortal coil, and all of the enlightened beings in the ether would sing his praises and welcome him into their fold, as a dear long lost brother, and he would lead them to their new. . . you get the point.
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I've watched, I've tried to help, I've witnessed the reality of actual depression, actual alcoholism, actual mental instability, and he didn't really fit the bill, from what I ever saw. I watched him act all strong for his loved ones and also watch him shit it all away, repeatedly, so that he could have his two dimensional persona. He was little more than a character in a Bulwer-Lytton novel.
But then, that's all just MY opinion.
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The only person, thing, or circumstance to blame, is dead. HE did it, nothing else. He had his own messed up version as to the truth and reality and he only thought of his own self, not even the little people he helped create.
Whether he had a policy or not, it doesn't matter, it isn't the point. He put absolutely no real thought into how his actions would ever affect anyone else.
Knowing Donald, he probably got it in his head that he was rising to a higher plane, releasing his soul from this mortal coil, and all of the enlightened beings in the ether would sing his praises and welcome him into their fold, as a dear long lost brother, and he would lead them to their new. . . you get the point.
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