Sorry, not particularly eloquent.
My 'stepbrother' (no actual marriage to make the connection, but you know what I mean) was a grade-A cnut. He caused no end of problems for our admittedly 'Jeremy-Kyle-esque' extended family. He'd been a serious stoner for several years with some recreational use of harder stuff on occasions.

About a decade ago, he strted getting into coke in a bad way. He had a mountain of debts for various items that were steadily going bad and owed pretty much everyone in the family money from sponging, especially my mother & her partner (his dad) who were struggling with large debts themselves.

Things came to a head when it came to light that he'd stolen £20 from our house (I still lived 'at home' then) and I confronted him about it. The result was a poorly choreographed fist-fight which was swiftly broken up when he tried to use a house-brick as a weapon and threatened to have me 'jabbed' by one of his junkie mates.
He must have been fond of the humble brick, as he used several to increase the ventilation in my brothers house, via the windows, after a slight altercation.

Karma comes sinto the story a couple of months after the events above. His addiction was kicking in big-time and I heard he'd been beaten up over drug debts. The story that eventually came to light was that he'd gotten himself 10 grams on credit (he was dealing to fund by that time) and had gone home and hoovered up the lot. Apparently his conscience finally emerged and got the better of him, leading him to hang himself with the hoover wire.

If he'd asked, I would have helped him out. After all, you have to use specific knots with electrical flex to prevent it untying itself. (He was found on the floor - apparently it held long enough!

A year afterward, I read his suicide note (scribbled on the back of a used envelope - he never did have any style!) and chuckled at his pathetic blaming of anyone and everyone else for the problems he caused for himself.

Am I harsh?
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 12:06, 8 replies)

Y'know...
I don't think you are, really. I have very limited sympathy for people who drag their entire families down with them - 'specially in such a cuntish manner...

So maybe harsh, but ultimately fair.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 12:18, closed)

^^
What Devil-in-Tights says. Sometimes the only decent thing person can do is to remove themeself from the gene pool.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Feb 2008, 12:24, closed)

"If he'd asked, I would have helped him out."
"After all, you have to use specific knots"

Once I've picked myself up from the carpet, feel free to enjoy my click!

You're not harsh, he screwed himself up and screwed his family up (or, screwed them up further by the sounds of it). If it had been an apologetic self hanging then it'd be harsh, but if he just blamed everyone else unfoundedly then it's not harsh.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:10, closed)

Are you harsh?
Ahhh, nope.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 14:28, closed)

Not harsh at all
*click*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 22 Feb 2008, 19:09, closed)

Yes, you are harsh
No wonder he killed himself with a 'stepbrother' like you. That's how people behave in the grip of depression.

To be fair I'm not saying you're directly responsible - it was his choice - but my experience has shown me that the difference between those who make it out of that situation and those who don't is having good straight friends who are willing to give some tough love when things are needed.

I mean, you're saying he killed himself over what can't have been more than £450 of coke and you don't even care? That really is sad.
(Wikidd, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 17:49, closed)

Wikidd
but its £450..and then another and another (Im assuming). You have to say "stop" at some point.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 18:59, closed)

^^
And a cunt is a cunt is a cunt... No matter how much of an 'excuse' they have. Sounds like he was a cunt before he got into the harder stuff. He got himself into the situation, and I think the suicide note says it all really - blaming everyone but himself for his problems.

You're better off without him.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 26 Feb 2008, 16:34, closed)