Life is all about connections and finding our common ground, reach out to others…let them know they matter, they are worthy and that their story need to continue!
This guy was super lucky to be asked to go out to Smoketown Pennsylvania to film this amazing Balloon Jump for a good cause a Charity Event put together by TEAM EVIL. The event was for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The event was sponsored by “SLAY” energy drink company.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization established in 1987. It funds research, runs educational programs, advocates for public policies in mental health and suicide prevention, and supports survivors of suicide loss. It is headquartered in New York, with an office in Washington, D.C.
As well, many personalities are supporting the cause, like Carrie Genzel an actress/writer/producer, most recognized for her work as “Skye Chandler” on ALL MY CHILDREN, as well as two memorable SUPERNATURAL episodes “Bugs” and “Just My Imagination. Aside from acting Carrie writes a blog STATE OF SLAY, which documents her journey with mental illness that she uses to empower and inspire others on their path. As someone who has lost numerous people to suicide, and has attempted it herself in the past, AIR is an important part of her message of hope and recovery.
Suicide is a public health issue that does not discriminate against age or ethnicity and can impact anyone regardless of their social or economic status. In Florida, it is believed that one person dies by suicide every three hours. Unfortunately, that number is rising.
While there is no single cause of suicide, it most often occurs when stress and other health issues combine, leaving an individual with feelings of isolation, hopelessness, and despair. Research suggests that undiagnosed mental illness such as depression, anxiety, and addiction increase one’s risk for suicide.
A suicide can be the most private of acts. An individual, alone in extreme mental anguish, makes the ultimate decision to sever their bond with this world permanently. No one else may ever know the truth about their silent torment. Even with a suicide note or a message to a loved one, their death is muted and hidden.
When someone dies by jumping it is usually from a residential building. Most suicides that occur from more public areas such as bridges or cliffs tend to be done by younger males, and choose to jump from their residences because of easy accessibility and proximity. It is by its nature a public action. Their secret is out, and the image of the tragedy is an open blemish for all to see.
Undoubtedly, this initiative seeks to share the joy and excitement of living, and there is no better way to do it than from above. I hope that soon, more Skydivers will join this cause.
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Diplo welcome to the party.
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Always a treat to watch top filming top tune top sky dive as always can’t wait for next video
Balloon jumps are my dream!
Each individual’s circumstances should be considered and if
there is nothing that can be done to help the person and the person is
determined to die then they should be able to access the means to die a quick,
painless and dignified death regardless of whether they are terminally ill or
not. I can NOT stand these Anti- Suicide campaigns as they do not care at all
about how the person came to be suicidal, all they care about is stopping the
person from killing themselves, their motto is that you should continue to
exist NO MATTER WHAT, quality of life being irrelevant. We live in a society and
system that is fixated with quantity of life and not quality of life. Quality
of life is much more important than quantity of life, given the choice, if I
was given the option of choosing between 5 more years of life but great 5 years
of life and given 40 more years of life but miserable ones then I would take
the great 5 years of life anytime. Quality of life over quantity of life just
for the sake of quantity of life. Unfortunately we live in a society and system
obsessed only with Quantity of Life and NOT Quality of Life as, after all, the
longer one exists the longer one continues to be a consumer for and the more
money is made out of the individual hence ” let’s keep everyone existing
for as long as possible no matter their quality of life or lack of
it.” I was abandoned and abused as a child to then be adopted by 2
abusers at age of 5 and who because of that tried taking my own life within a
month of turning 16 and then moved to a country at 19 where making friends has
been impossible for me and there therefore have now lived my entire adult life
all on my own and NO I don’t have Asperger’s or some personality disorder nor
am I Bipolar. When I lived in country of birth I had a few friends and never
felt completely disconnected and like an outcast and when I did a Working
Holiday in Canada I made friends there. I literally am all ALONE in the world.
I have not found my place in the world. Life is NOT for everyone even if they
are born into this world it does NOT automatically mean that the person born
will want to be here. Life is NOT for me. Not everything in Life can be changed
or fixed. I have tried Suicide a further couple of times because of my
circumstances. When I have had to fill in paper work that require a contact of
next of kin and leave it blank they won’t let me leave it blank and as I have
nobody I just have to make one up. I would NEVER talk to a
“professional” if feeling Suicidal because I know they do not care
for the individual they just care about their agenda. Out of the frying pan and
into the fire – “We won’t help your marriage, finances, bills, illness,
loss, or anything that is piling up day after day as a cause – But we will
punish you for trying to escape AND make you feel WORSE during the process.
We’ll tell you ‘there’s so much to live for’, “everything can get
better”, & other things, all while explaining you have a disorder or
brain issue & need help.” HELP people. No EMPTY promises that magically
things will get better if they wait. HELP. I think it would be rather cruel to
insist that I should keep Existing as I have been till I die of cancer or some
other terrifying disease. There are so many HORRIBLE, progressive,
degenerative, quality of life robbing diseases and even though there is a drug
that could end these people’s torment and pain so many are refused that and
have to linger in agony until eventually they die sometimes slowly and horribly
too… Some of these people spend their last remaining time left on this earth
fighting to change the laws and/or to have access to such drug. Humans in
general are VERY IRRATIONAL and VERY CRUEL Suffer and Suffer and Suffer. But
Suicide is “Forbidden” “Anything but Suicide” is the motto.
Most people see Death as the Harm when in fact DEATH IS
INEVITABLE, THE HARM IS IN THE SUFFERING.
Why do we need to fill our lives with stuff, entertainment, find a reason to
live, find meaning in life etc? If Life truly was such a wonderful thing then
Breathing only should be enough, being Conscious only should be enough and yet
it isn’t because Life in itself and just by itself is pointless and
meaningless. It is up to each individual to find a meaning to it and give it a
meaning and purpose and that varies from person to person. Some of us see that
even if we fill it with temporary pleasures like stuff, tv, music, books etc
that at the end of it all it is all still very pointless, it is just
distracting us from the fact that there is nothing meaningful in simply just
existing. I hate quotes like “Life is a Gift, that is why Today is called
the Present” Life is imposed and unlike a Gift it is not so easy to just
give it away or get rid of it… How many of us if we could pick if to be born
at all or not, having lived what we already have would choose to simply never
be born? I am one of them. We are born into this Cult called Life of which we
had no choice and if we ever announce that we prefer Death and want to die they
lock us up for our own good so they say, to “save” us from ourselves,
like cult members forcibly try to stop people from leaving their cult once they
joined or are born into it.. There are many different reasons why people feel
suicidal, it is case by case. For some things NEVER improve and will NEVER
improve. I am one of those people for who this is true. Killing yourself is
okay, it is like abortion, your body and your choice same with suicide. If my
body and my life are not mine, then whose are they? Who does my Life and Body
belong to? To the Government? To Society? I am fed up with all these Anti
Suicide Campaigns and these Anti Suicide Marches. All is futile of course.
Nobody is protesting in marches against Murder, many would see the absurdity of
it, how are you going to stop murder from happening ever in the first place?
Same with Suicide, Suicide IS Self- Murder. It all comes down to something
called FREE WILL.
I have Suffered so MUCH in Life and have been through most of it all ALONE and
I think I am generally a good person so I feel a painless exit is warranted. I
keep finding myself having to deal with something unpleasant, rarely anytime in
my life where I was not dealing with something bad and only for a short period
when I have some rare relief. Was abused all through my childhood before and
after being adopted, my entire adult life I have been either totally on my own
or in bad relationships, no meaningful connections whatsoever and have also had
to deal with things such as sexual harassment, being stalked, bullied, have had
to deal with harassment at work ongoing for almost 2 years where I finally
called the Union. Just some of the “wonderful” things life has
offered me. I have no stability or security in my life, no stable employment,
no stable place to live and yet I am “wrong” for time and time and
time again wanting out of this life of mine. I am supposed to have the mindset
of “I love Life. I love suffering. Yes, I want to continue existing as I
can’t get enough of suffering. So I will just continue to suffer until I get my
Grand Finale, until I die of Cancer or Alzheimer’s or suffer through some other
debilitating, ongoing, quality of life robbing disease.
I feel like a hamster just going around and around in circles in a hamster
wheel. Going Nowhere. No future for me, not a good one
anyway. Just more Misery.
We’re all just government property. We can only leave this stupid planet when
they say we can. Slavery still exists, it’s just been re-branded and made more
palatable. The truth is that the world couldn’t survive without miserable
losers like me to do the shit jobs. When I leave this world it’ll be with a
cheeky grin on my face, because I’ll have stuck it to the control system. If
they want utility out of me, they’ll have to take it from my corpse. After I’m
gone, they can keep it.
The mental healthcare system is part of the greater agenda of those in power,
i.e the government and corporate cronies. Suicide is and always has been an
enemy of the proponents of wage slavery and unnecessary servitude. The world
needs janitors, for example, so some people will have no choice but to be a
janitor or get another low skill, low wage job. Rather than accept their
“failure” in the capitalist system many would rather end their lives.
Simple economics proves that if you have an abundance of low skill
workers in the market, you don’t have to pay them nearly as much or give them
benefits. When you’ve made suicide taboo and irrational, as we have through the
invention of an elaborate catalogue of mental disorders, suddenly you can force
people to stay alive so they have to work by means of state intervention. We
live in a sort of dystopian society where it is possible to commit someone for
expressing legitimate grievances. They can simultaneously lock you up without
putting you on trial for something that isn’t even a crime and then milk
whatever cash they can out of you.
“Oh, you don’t like working a shit job? Too bad, take your pills and
shut up. You’re just lazy/ depressed. Better work harder or your life is only
gonna get worse. By the way, here’s your medical bill, sucker.”
I hate the greedy control freaks responsible for manufacturing the
general public’s outlook on suicide. They’ve brainwashed people into thinking
that the only guaranteed method of escape from an apathetic world is a bad
thing and needs to be stopped under the guise of benevolence. They tell us that
Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is
quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more
unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Suicide is a state crime because the state loses control of the
individual
Holy fucking shit dude
Awesome Vid dude! What are you using for editing?
Ralphy, you didn’t even call me up while in PA! Nice jump as always.
So sorry bro, I was only there for 24 hrs. Next time brother.