Darkthorn’s Blog

No, I haven’t stopped writing or anything else important like that. My exams are over! Yay. This makes me happy for a change. Three whole weeks to work on my writing. Hopefully I will come up with heaps of new stuff for you all to read. On the way home from my exam I wrote a couple more chapters, and I’m pretty happy with the way things are proceeding.

Today’s interesting topic is on suicide. I have a couple of questions for any of you religious people out there. Can anorexia be counted as suicide? It is a disease that many people die from, and I would say that the numbers are growing. An arguement that I have heard is that because it is a disease, it isn’t a suicide. It isn’t the person’s fault that they die, because they aren’t in their right minds. I would agree with this, but then, depression is a disease too. It dodges up your brain chemistry so that the person can’t think straight, perhaps even persuading them that suicide is the only option left.

Another arguement is that suicide is a matter of state of mind. So, if you die, and you didn’t want to die, it isn’t a suicide. Does that mean that the people who jump off buildings, and then change their minds half-way through, and decide that, no, they didn’t want to die after all, aren’t committing suicide anymore? So how would you define it? The same could apply to the more dangerous jobs out there. Changing you mind about dying, and then dying anyway, because you can’t be saved, is it suicide? I don’t think it is.

Oh, and exciting, I now have readers in the U.K. and Finland! Google analytics is great, tells me everything I could possibly want to know. I would have expected to see peaks around the dates on which new chapters are released, but so far it appears not. Weekends also appear to be drops in visits. Never fear, there should always be new material on the site, if you visit once a day. Especially now I am on holidays. *laughs manically* I can’t wait to get started on more writing.

I am in a good mood. Coming from spending an entire day with David, watching movies, eating cookies (that I made) and generally enjoying each other’s company.

~ Darkthorn