Well, before starting to describe what this thread is about, I want to warn everyone that it ventures into a rather dark and delicate subject: Suicide.
I know that talking about suicide is serious and should be taken with respect, so I ask everyone to please use your best judgement to discuss these matters... and also, if you feel that this can affect you in any way, it would be better to avoid reading this thread.
There is a character in one of my Fantasy stories that lost her best friend (who was murdered in a rather cruel and awful way), and then, unable to live without her, she decided to just climb into snowy mountains without protection and simply seek to freeze to death.
She was indeed frozen, later describing the experience as "The cold took me away..."
She wanted to find her friend in the Afterlife world, not caring anymore about her own life and the brilliant future that she had in her world.
My question is: Did she commit suicide? Did she really kill herself?
This character never used any weapon against herself, drank poison or anything like that, she never took her own life... It was the natural cold of a snowstorm that killed her, and so the word suicide never appears in this story and personally I do not think of her as a suicide.
What would you say?
I know that talking about suicide is serious and should be taken with respect, so I ask everyone to please use your best judgement to discuss these matters... and also, if you feel that this can affect you in any way, it would be better to avoid reading this thread.
There is a character in one of my Fantasy stories that lost her best friend (who was murdered in a rather cruel and awful way), and then, unable to live without her, she decided to just climb into snowy mountains without protection and simply seek to freeze to death.
She was indeed frozen, later describing the experience as "The cold took me away..."
She wanted to find her friend in the Afterlife world, not caring anymore about her own life and the brilliant future that she had in her world.
My question is: Did she commit suicide? Did she really kill herself?
This character never used any weapon against herself, drank poison or anything like that, she never took her own life... It was the natural cold of a snowstorm that killed her, and so the word suicide never appears in this story and personally I do not think of her as a suicide.
What would you say?