Eddie Vedder quote on suicide

[Pyrophosphate]

This is a quote from Eddie Vedder, the lead singer for Pearl Jam, about the song Jeremy.

It came from a small paragraph in a paper which means you kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. Sixty-three degrees and cloudy in a suburban neighborhood. That's the beginning of the video and that's the same thing is that in the end, it does nothing … nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people. And then you can come back.

The music video for the song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCS_-DshXek) was banned from TV for a while for it's graphic suicide depiction. It was based on an actual event that took place in Richardson, Texas in 1991. A 15-year-old shot himself in front of his classmates. The full details on that are at http://www.ssheps.com/jeremynew.htm, in case anyone's interested.

I guess the point is that suicide never fixes anything, and only results in needless loss of life.

 

[sabbath92002]

Indeed, the best revenge is living well.