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What really breaks my heart....

posted 14 years ago by fallfrost
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Is that all the "featured" suicides had family and friends to interview. I'm wondering about all of the jumpers who had absolutely no one. No family. No friends. No one who cared about them. And that's why they jumped -- they were completely and utterly alone. They never made it to the movie.

That really breaks my heart.

[–] Ripley741 14 years ago

You can only hope they're happier now... wherever and whatever they are.

[–] David_Lightman 13 years ago

They're nowhere. They're just dead.

[–] Samuraibro 8 years ago

Shut up, David.

[–] BugisStreetAnnie 13 years ago

Is that all the "featured" suicides had family and friends to interview. I'm wondering about all of the jumpers who had absolutely no one. No family. No friends. No one who cared about them. And that's why they jumped -- they were completely and utterly alone. They never made it to the movie.

I wondered if the very first guy who jumped didn't fall into that category because no one spoke about him except for the windsurfer who didn't know him, only saw him jump.

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[–] puirt-a-beul 10 years ago

Is that all the "featured" suicides had family and friends to interview. I'm wondering about all of the jumpers who had absolutely no one.

Yes, fallfrost, it's sad to contemplate. But the connections the others had are no doubt why they were featured -- the film was built around the interviews and footage, and that's what decided who was featured.

The film did at least acknowledge all those who died in the year the film focused on, but a little detail of their lives -- maybe a brief biography for each -- would have been a good thing to have. It would have gone further to acknowledge them as people, more than just statistics or a roll call.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

[–] MelH (31) 7 years ago

I can see relatives and friends of jumpers not wanting to be interviewed. Without a doubt it was upsetting to them, then to have strangers put a camera on you and bring up all that pain and guilt? My family would refuse to be filmed/interviewed. I'm guessing a lot of jumpers came from families where people weren't all that open with their feelings.