• @Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world
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    808 months ago

    Horrible conclusion to a desperate situation. The article didn’t mention it but the dog was in the bedroom with him and also died as well.

    • Phoenixz
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      438 months ago

      I get that this is not the kind of situation where one would think about this, but poor pets are always victims, no matter what. They don’t understand what or why, they just suddenly are suffering :(

      • ivanafterall
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        168 months ago

        I’ve been watching a documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union and those are always the worst parts. Fuck people, but don’t leave the scared monkeys caged in a zoo in the middle of a war. We carelessly exploit so much and just throw it away.

      • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        528 months ago

        I wasn’t joking. I was being mildly hyperbolic. Landlord is just going to file an insurance claim. Probably get a tax break for the loss. Maybe instead of making 900,000 this year they make 875,000. Life goes on because fuck poor people

      • Sentient Loom
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        48 months ago

        And who will do the cleanup? More poor people who don’t own houses.

  • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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    208 months ago

    My dad was getting evicted from my childhood home that my dad built. Mostly from little faults on his own.

    He was never suicidal but he told us that he was going to fight the police and would rather die than leave the house. He was pretty much planning on going down with the house.

    After years and years of battling the bank that screwed my dad and losing my mom to cancer, I asked my dad to stop fighting and we convinced him to live in an apartment that my siblings pool together to pay for.

    The point of it is losing a home is very depressing and hurtful. We don’t need police to serve paper, but social workers and government support for people that got displaced.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      8 months ago

      Ah yes. That passage where Jesus said, “pay your landlord, for he is the idol which thou should worship for letting thyself life in thou’s abode.”

      Or when he said, “ignore thy neighbor when he is in pain, for he is not thy self.”

      Or that passage in the bible that says, “it is easy for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God, and it is also easy for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.”

      I think one of Jesus’ teachings said, “provide housing for thy sojourner, but only if he pays thee 30 silver coins.”

      • Cethin
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        -38 months ago

        I assume the comment means in this person’s eyes, not in their own. It seems like sarcastically discussing their beliefs, in that they didn’t actually do anything that matters and are just worried this guy sinned. I don’t know though. It’s impossible to tell the difference between sarcasm and authenticity in text.

        • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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          108 months ago

          Well I mean sarcastic or not, the comment isn’t appropriate. It’s very unlikely she started praying because she thought the person was a sinner, she started praying for the person’s safety. Prayer for something like this is an expression of concern.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      248 months ago

      Ah yeah. There’s always someone who is so devoid of a conscience that they will say something like this. It’s thinking like this and those that participate in it that keep the world from being a good place to live.

      • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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        78 months ago

        I’m pretty sure everyone here died sometime between 2020 and 2022 and is in hell. We all just don’t know where we are yet.

          • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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            I dunno, you’re not in a diamond mine, or locked up in a basement being sold for sex… and you can afford a phone

            … so I’d say, relative to the many possible hells that exist on earth, a capitalist hell for you is pretty nice.

            Edit: italic text added for clarification

            • @eskimofry@lemm.ee
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              48 months ago

              All those other things happen in capitalist hell. It’s incredibly selfish to think everything is fine if only you are fine.

              • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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                -48 months ago

                That’s true. Good thing I don’t think that. Good thing I never said anything like that. I wouldn’t want anyone to hear what they wanted to hear, twist the original intent, and then send a retort designed to make me look like some kind of selfish person in order to make themselves feel superior.

                Here, I’ll use your tactic: It’s incredibly hypocritical to suggest that you are living in hell because other people suffer, while you enjoy the comforts of a capitalist world. You are not living that hell. You are just viewing other people’s suffering, with popcorn, and offering up your thoughts and prayers.

    • @Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world
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      138 months ago

      If you believe an invisible sky daddy watching all of your moves, ready to send you to burn for eternity at the slightest fuck up, then you need to grow up.

    • @Pavidus@lemmy.world
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      68 months ago

      I’m just a dirty heathen, but… Don’t we all sin? And don’t they all weigh evenly?

      Hell is gonna be standing room only. Better bring a folding chair with me.

      • @NABDad@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        Christians would believe your sins are forgiven if you repent, but suicide is a special case because you have to be living to repent. If your sin results in your death, you can’t repent.

    • Skeezix
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      38 months ago

      After you burn for the first few million years then burning would get pretty boring, I would imagine.

    • Drusas
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      38 months ago

      Sounds like he might not necessarily have intended to kill himself so much as to just burn the house down.