[Reaper]

Scrambler, I'm sorry you had to witness such a horrible thing. Seeing the life of another human end is never a pleasant thing no matter what the circumstances.

Jordon, I appreciate that you've been through some troubling and distressing situations but some of your views strike me as very egocentric. One has to understand that no two people have the same life experience so what may have worked for you may not work for others. If this were truly a "one-size-fits-all" world then as soon as one person found resolution for their illness, addiction, psychiatric disorder, troubling situation or what have you then it would mean that everyone else would just have to do exactly the same thing to remedy their situation. Unfortunately, life is not nearly as easy and clean cut as that. Things get complicated. One person's perception is different from another's. Rock bottom means different things to different people. We can try to "reasonably predict" what the outcome of a situation will be if X steps are taken but we can never say with any certainty that success is 100% assured. The world and the people that live in it are just too variable for cookie cutter approaches when it comes to solving life's problems. I'm not saying that people don't ever make mistakes when it comes to difficult choices. What I'm saying is that humans are fallible and prone to errors in judgement based on perception, ego, jealousy, psychiatric disorders, character flaws, predispositions and every other variable under the sun. It is the nature of being human. One can never truly understand what it is like for another person in a given situation because we can never live in that person's skin and experience life through their eyes.