Can You Commit Suicide While Sleeping?

I don't think it's difficult to rationalize people doing odd things in their sleep. I'm just saying it's difficult for loved ones of people who commit suicide to rationalize why it happened, and sometimes it's easier for them to blame things like sleepwalking.

I wasn't making a specific comment towards the Wong example, and while I seriously doubt his partner of six years cares what I say on Neatorama, I won't bother to reply to that comment.

hey ted:

"A serious case of denial."

Tobias was my partner for six years. I was there when it happened. Please rethink your comment.

It doesn't surprise me how uncomfortable people are with the idea that such a concept can exist. There's a lot going on with the unconscious processes of the brain, and I don't really think that people want to conceder an uncontrollable "off switch". There are various habits of animals which make instinctual acts, and example would be fish, who would eat their own young in order to protect them, and such a thing is difficult thing to understand and rationalize logically.

One day, I was listening to a girl who was with friends the previous night and accepted some psychedelic drug from a friend without even knowing which one it was (I told her that was stupid, and she agreed). While experiencing the effects of it she felt like she could fly, and considering that she lived in an apartment, as a precaution she died a string around her ankle and the other end to the leg of her bed. She woke up on her floor, laying flat facing the balcony door. There are things that go on in our heads that we aren't readily aware of.

Seems more like an accidental death than a "willful" self-termination.

Sounds like survivor guilt: rationalizing why your loved ones would kill themselves.

A serious case of denial.