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What’s the first thing you think of when hearing or reading the phrase “goodbye, cruel world”?

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Posted - February 6, 2020

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  • 19937
    Suicide
      February 6, 2020 7:39 AM MST
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  • 8188
    The song:
    Goodby cruel world, I'm off to join the circus.
      February 6, 2020 7:51 AM MST
    2

  • 44578
    A stupid play.
      February 6, 2020 9:17 AM MST
    0

  • 17581
    Boo hoo
      February 6, 2020 4:46 PM MST
    1

  • 4624
    soap opera

    a melodramatic way of signalling that what follows will be a suicide note

    I doubt that most suicides would actually start their note in that way - if any.

    The world is not always cruel.
    The degree of "cruelty" a person subjectively experiences might not be due to flaws of temperament, character, or habitual negative thinking;
    he or she could be the victim of entrapment by a psychopath or other circumstances beyond their control.

    Maybe the world could be perceived as unremittingly cruel 
    by someone with disordered thinking and long-term clinical depression,
    but even then, I doubt they would start their note with those words. 
      February 6, 2020 7:14 PM MST
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  • Drama Queens
      February 6, 2020 7:25 PM MST
    1