This happened after the song was written, but shows how reality is often stranger than fiction, and even Rammstein falls short of actual satire. This song is an accurate depiction of how humans really are.
This song is mostly about society's attitude towards suffering in general and suicidality in particular. "Ich wollte nur (…) in den Abendhimel sehen" ("I only wanted to (…) look in the evening sky)" is a metaphor for "I only wanted to look death in the face". Most people thinking of suicide don't do it, but the thought of doing it is comforting because it reminds them that it could all be over. But people don't like others to show their suffering, even if it's in the form of suicide (even that's a "cry for attention") because they pity them; but they project their pity on others, so they call it "self-pity". Pity isn't the same as compassion. Pity makes you withdraw from the other person so much that, if the suffering is strong enough, you no longer see them as a person at all. Once that's done, once all pity's taken away, the instinct of aggression takes over and you want nothing more than to increase the other's suffering. The other's vulnerability gives them power. The other's suffering gives them satisfaction.
The suffering of clinical depression is the worst kind of mental suffering one can go through except for that of schizophrenia, and is entirely beyond the sufferer's control. The suffering is so strong that one person said it was worse than that of watching his wife die of cancer, and another said he would amputate his arm if that could stop it. Yet people don't understand it, and what's more, they don't want to understand it.
"The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film... that consists of the results of one year's filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, which captured a number of suicides"
"The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film... that consists of the results of one year's filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, which captured a number of suicides"
"The camera crew consisted of 12 people that showed up each morning for an entire year to film the bridge. During filming, on average, one person jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge every 15 days".
"The camera crew consisted of 12 people that showed up each morning for an entire year to film the bridge. During filming, on average, one person jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge every 15 days".
Essentially, the Documentary was created to help raise awareness...
Essentially, the Documentary was created to help raise awareness and be the catalyst for San Francisco to take more measures to prevent these suicides, but one cannot help but think that the film crew, deep down and in the back of their minds may have been zoomed in on these doomed jumpers, seeing them hesitate, pace back and forth before finally stepping to the edge... and then they willed them on under their breath: "Spring".
"Crowd Urged Suicidal Teen To Jump": http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Derby-Police-Criticise-Crowd-Who-Encouraged-Shaun-Dykes-To-Jump-Off-Westfield-Shopping-Centre/Article/200810115110890
This happened after the song was written, but shows how reality is often stranger than fiction, and even Rammstein falls short of actual satire. This song is an accurate depiction of how humans really are.
This song is mostly about society's attitude towards suffering in general and suicidality in particular. "Ich wollte nur (…) in den Abendhimel sehen" ("I only wanted to (…) look in the evening sky)" is a metaphor for "I only wanted to look death in the face". Most people thinking of suicide don't do it, but the thought of doing it is comforting because it reminds them that it could all be over. But people don't like others to show their suffering, even if it's in the form of suicide (even that's a "cry for attention") because they pity them; but they project their pity on others, so they call it "self-pity". Pity isn't the same as compassion. Pity makes you withdraw from the other person so much that, if the suffering is strong enough, you no longer see them as a person at all. Once that's done, once all pity's taken away, the instinct of aggression takes over and you want nothing more than to increase the other's suffering. The other's vulnerability gives them power. The other's suffering gives them satisfaction.
The suffering of clinical depression is the worst kind of mental suffering one can go through except for that of schizophrenia, and is entirely beyond the sufferer's control. The suffering is so strong that one person said it was worse than that of watching his wife die of cancer, and another said he would amputate his arm if that could stop it. Yet people don't understand it, and what's more, they don't want to understand it.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Similar to the article you posted, have you people seen the documentary called "The Bridge"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2006_documentary_film)
Similar to the article you posted, have you people seen the documentary called "The Bridge"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2006_documentary_film)
"The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film... that consists of the results of one year's filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, which captured a number of suicides"
"The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film... that consists of the results of one year's filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, which captured a number of suicides"
"The camera crew consisted of 12 people that showed up each morning for an entire year to film the bridge. During filming, on average, one person jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge every 15 days".
"The camera crew consisted of 12 people that showed up each morning for an entire year to film the bridge. During filming, on average, one person jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge every 15 days".
Essentially, the Documentary was created to help raise awareness...
Essentially, the Documentary was created to help raise awareness and be the catalyst for San Francisco to take more measures to prevent these suicides, but one cannot help but think that the film crew, deep down and in the back of their minds may have been zoomed in on these doomed jumpers, seeing them hesitate, pace back and forth before finally stepping to the edge... and then they willed them on under their breath: "Spring".