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Thread ID: 146516 2018-08-22 04:56:00 Goodbye Greg Boyd. Bryan (147) PC World Chat
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1453035 2018-08-22 04:56:00 He has died in Switzerland. A good man - RIP. Bryan (147)
1453036 2018-08-22 09:03:00 Greg Boyed.

I surmise by his own hand? It didn't have to be.

Thanks Greg, for your insights, your entertaining us. RIP
WalOne (4202)
1453037 2018-08-22 21:39:00 I quite like him, as much as I knew him - which is not at all, just off the TV.

And it's sad....

But this headline on the Herald annoyed me:

9015

I know people with mental illness depression. I know 2 who killed themselves too. And others have been in the news, albeit not media people or famous ones, so NOW it's a human face? That's a bit insulting to the others.
piroska (17583)
1453038 2018-08-24 01:04:00 If someone is "As seen on TV" and they are a normal human then that is definitely newsworthy on extreme rarity grounds. If they are pronounced dead, then that is newsworthy too, purely for the medical skill required to detect the difference between actual brain death and normal behaviour in that occupational group. R2x1 (4628)
1453039 2018-08-24 03:27:00 Lol zqwerty (97)
1453040 2018-08-31 22:11:00 One journalist tells it how it is ...



Why can't we use the S word?

Not sex.

Suicide.

When the statistics are released, as they were 10 days ago, we have no problem with saying or writing the word then, and neither we should - because this country's suicide statistics are just shocking.

We have a serious, serious issue and we cannot hide behind fancy words.

Yet, when someone high profile dies by their own hand we revert to code.

Died suddenly.

Died unexpectedly.

Had been suffering from depression.

Why couldn't the reportage be straight to the point?



Well said. Straight to the point. Thanks to this nameless journalist for telling it how it is.

Click HERE for full article (www.nzherald.co.nz)
WalOne (4202)
1453041 2018-09-01 00:01:00 Peter Williams.

Ken :)
kenj (9738)
1453042 2018-09-01 02:53:00 Peter Williams.

Ken :)

Shows how much attention I afford headlines :groan:

Thanks Ken
WalOne (4202)
1453043 2018-09-12 00:48:00 I will be sorry to see you go, but good luck with your new car. What vw have you bought? Danielkew (17638)
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