Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst commits suicide by jumping from New York high rise

Rah-Rah said:
Social Media and really any other forum like site gives people the opportunity to sit behind their screen and say whatever they feel like saying to someone without feeling like they have any consequences behind the cruel actions they say. Most of these people that say these things would never say these things to these people standing in front of them. Social Media has been for the most part an awful addition to the internet.
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Yeah, sometimes what we call "social media" is anything but social at all. That cloak of anonymity that one has when spewing forth on the internet gives some people an extra dose of courage that, were there an actual physical threat of consequence for their vileness, shouldn't be a license to forget to be civil. There's usually an actual person on the other end of a conversation. If it's something that I would not or that I likely would hesitate to say were I face to face with someone, I usually try to steer clear of such interactions or extract myself once the situation escalates to me feeling uncomfortable.

Ain't nobody gonna steal my joy today!
 
Geezer Garage said:
Maybe it was a different kind of "push" that ended her life?
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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem but there are many other solutions, normally, especially so, in that situation. She was weak though and in time, she might have done the same thing for the same or another reason. Her problems are no more but she gave rise to new problems to those she left behind.
 

Chris P Bacon said:
Yeah, sometimes what we call "social media" is anything but social at all. That cloak of anonymity that one has when spewing forth on the internet gives some people an extra dose of courage that, were there an actual physical threat of consequence for their vileness, shouldn't be a license to forget to be civil. There's usually an actual person on the other end of a conversation. If it's something that I would not or that I likely would hesitate to say were I face to face with someone, I usually try to steer clear of such interactions or extract myself once the situation escalates to me feeling uncomfortable.

Ain't nobody gonna steal my joy today!
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I just stay away from Social Media(Facebook/Twitter) altogether.
 
Rah-Rah said:
I just stay away from Social Media(Facebook/Twitter) altogether.
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I use both of those, sparingly so but when you come to think about it, Senior Forums is social media too. But it's often the right tool for the job for many of us. With moderation and caution, I don't feel that I'm at risk. On the contrary, I feel enriched, often as not.
 
Chris P Bacon said:
I use both of those, sparingly so but when you come to think about it, Senior Forums is social media too. But it's often the right tool for the job for many of us. With moderation and caution, I don't feel that I'm at risk. On the contrary, I feel enriched, often as not.
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Senior forums is more of a forum that deals with social and entertainment issues that is for a particular age group. It is somewhat different in that we all have a common bond as we are all Seniors which in many ways means we deal with a lot of the same issues. Sure there are going to be differences of opinions among any groups as it is here as well. What I have seen here though in the short time I have been here is that most people do debate while there are still a few that still find the need to bully and make snarky comments. I do however feel it is much less then that of Facebook and Twitter.
 
Lewkat said:
She left a note stating that she was almost 30 and couldn't face the fact that she was getting old. I nearly fell off my chair with that one. This younger generation is so obsessed with youth, so that age 30 is old? Sad indeed.
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I've heard some men say things like, "She's old" when referring to a woman who's 30 or 40. The men who say such stupid things are usually 40 or 50.
 
win231 said:
I've heard some men say things like, "She's old" when referring to a woman who's 30 or 40. The men who say such stupid things are usually 40 or 50.
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So here once again, someone has an opinion that opposes yours/differes from yours .......... you cannot accept that........ you just must label them.
 
The problem of being famous is being famous. My cousin won a small lottery years ago. For well over a year, she had people knocking on her door at all hours of the night wanting. money. And Kryst was in the modeling business. Models start aging out of the business when they look 26. We don't know what drove her to commit suicide, but her death , depession, and things like PTSD, show how fragile we are.
 
We will never quite know what causes a person to do this, even when they have everything to live for.

No one knows what really goes on inside a person, but I feel sure that it can be helped if our educators and parents teach children from kindergarten age how to cope with the bows and arrows of life.

There are so many like Cheslie and my heart breaks for them.

Rest in Peace dear child.šŸ¦
 
I just know this , when I came home from the Military Hospital in 1971 , I went to one of my family's friends, borrowed a gun to go rabbit hunting, went home downstairs , loaded it up, stuck it in my mouth , and felt the friend jerk it out of my mouth, he had followed me home.
I muddied thru life, was always hard to experence happyness, but I tried to be the best husband and father I could, this young lady that killed her self must have been feeling real depair , I feel for her, may she rest in peace, and not have people put her down, for doing this.
 
john19485 said:
I just know this , when I came home from the Military Hospital in 1971 , I went to one of my family's friends, borrowed a gun to go rabbit hunting, went home downstairs , loaded it up, stuck it in my mouth , and felt the friend jerk it out of my mouth, he had followed me home.
I muddied thru life, was always hard to experence happyness, but I tried to be the best husband and father I could, this young lady that killed her self must have been feeling real depair , I feel for her, may she rest in peace, and not have people put her down, for doing this.
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I was 25 when I put a gun barrel in my mouth. In my case, it was a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum pistol with hollow point bullets. I wanted to make sure it blew my brains out and didn't just turn me into a vegetable.

I had written out a will and sold pretty much everything I owned except for my car. I drove to a nearby park, went into the woods, put the gun barrel in my mouth, and just started sobbing uncontrollably. Obviously, I wasn't ready to end my life.

Instead, since I had sold all my furniture and belongings, I decided to take a road trip around the country to see what would happen. I hoped that maybe somewhere, somehow, I'd find happiness.
 
We never get to know why people commit suicide. It could have been one thing or a combination of things. I've wondered over 35 years why someone very close to me chose to do it. In the end all you know is that it was their choice as a way to deal with it. Sad as it is.
 
There are a lot of cowards on social media. They run down other people or make statements that they would never do if they were face to face with another live person. I agree with Rah-Rah that social media has been for the most part an awful addition to the internet; especially for peer pressured young people.
 
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