Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:27:44 -0800 From: Ka Boom To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: suicide i was feeling very depressed and considering suicide. then i read your list of tips about suicide and i laughed out loud. obviously im still alive and now i dont plan on killing myself. perhaps ill die in a hurricane or a plane crash or something instead. ~jess ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: John To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: Hi, like your site I really like your site. I am 27yo and live in KY. I have been on disablility since 2003 for manic depression. Live back with my mom after being out on my own for about 7 years. I was considering suicide tonight and then I stumbled accross your site. Found "Suicide ain't so bad" I never laughed so hard in my life (lie) I was laughing so hard and it was late that I was trying my best to not wake my mom and her boyfriend. Make fun of me. I don't care if this email gives you a new fresh idea. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 02:52:21 +0000 To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: thankyou Dear Sir, I would thoroughly like to reward you for what you have done for me and how you have changed my life (or the one I was never going to have). You see I was contemplating suicide and call it coincidence/miracle from god or whatever, but my depression influenced me to actually check out the recommended web sites in my inbox and I found your suicide page to be unusually uplifting and eye-opening. It was funny and reminded me of the good moments in life I rarely experience but are so special like - laughing. ...proved to be a life saver. Yours in appreciation, Shane Seymour ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:53:25 -0800 To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: You saved my life. Dear Maddox, One time I thought to myself; "Holy shit I'm pissed off. Suicide is it." Then I saw that you had updated your site about suicide. I tried the whole cadburry eggs deal and couldn't do it. I laughed though, so now I'm alive. Your updates are saving lives. So FUCKING UPDATE GOD DAMMIT. ~Big Fan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:13:06 +0900 To: maddox@xmission.com man thank you, i was about to kill myself but your article made me laugh so hard I'm now a happy person. Not only that, the satire provided the only vehicle to communicate to someone in my deluded state. Thank you! -Alex in Japan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:45:40 -0600 To: "'maddox@xmission.com'" Subject: Keep it up Hey man, I'm a four degree here at the air force academy and I often times contemplate suicide, I just read your article and it made me laugh, something that doesn't happen too often here, I just read through your hate mail, and I think it might be more entertaining than the article itself. Being restricted from leaving this hell hole of a place and being confined to my room gives me a lot of time to think about jumping out my window (I'm on the 6th floor, room 6B66, how depressing is that?). Reading your article made me laugh and reminded me that my life doesn't suck that bad. I think all the people who wrote you the hate mail should kill themselves....then again, if they did that, who would keep us entertained? Anyways, thanks for making my day a little brighter. Ben ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:24:57 -0600 To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: thanx oh my ur web site rocks..a little while ago i thought i had such a bad life that i was going to kill my self...before i did this i decided i was going to search the net for one last and final time..when i stumbled across this website and i couldn't stop laughing..every day since i ahve come on here to see if there where any new emails...because of this website i couldn't wait for the next day to come to read it...i have never htought about killing myself since then thank-you with all my heart and thanx for my life back yours truly blaire collins later ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:48:25 -0400 To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: Not hate mail. Just wanted to tell you that your site, from what I've read of it so far, has kept me from killing myself as many as three times. But don't get too excited, because tomorrow is another day. Keep up the good work, and try not to hurt anyone's feelings. Lord knows this country's websurfing populace has it hard as it is, they don't need anything making them think. Sadly enough, public education teaches them only to read, not to think. This e-mail ends right now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <130.fa6b646.2a396755@aol.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:11:17 EDT Subject: suicide hate mail To: maddox@xmission.com i applaud your efforts regarding the defense of your latest entry on suicide. i agree that suicide is taken too seriously in society today, just as everything else is. it amazes me that any iota of humor can be taken out of the subject, which as previously been gravitated towards solemnity. if the hate mail conductor had been an attempted suicide victim, he probably would not have had such a harsh response to your entry. after all, i did not respond with incredulty, and im a recovering manic depressive. it is my opinion that suicidal teenagers can take that kind of writing, however those individuals without any sense of drollery cannot. thanks for the uplift, i admire your courage and good temper. -Vanessa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:26:09 -0600 From: tim To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: Response Requested (Very Urgent) Dear Almighty King Maddox, You saved my life. I'll start from the beginning. It was eight days after New Years, 2007 and I had headaches. I finally checked myself into a local hospital. I was delirious at the time but about a week later, I found out I had a brain tumor. I was worried. For five months I went through intensive surgery and healing programs. I didn't have the will to live though. I was dying. My wife left me, she didn't want me anymore. Then, as usual I booted up my laptop in my hospital room and discovered your website. I thought it was so funny, I told my doctor. Luckily, most of the hospital had a good sense of humor and the word spread. If you ever saw someone working at a computer they might just be lookinig at one of your new articles. Your website worked like Patch Adams, it gave me hope, your humor fueled my will to live. And guess what? I did it, I survived. From the moment I saw your website to now, my vitals went up, I was going to live. So tell all the nay-sayers and flamers, that you are indeed GOD. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:30:06 -0500 From: S. L. To: maddox@xmission.com Subject: Your suicide article saved my best friend's life. Hi, Maddox, My friend's name is Kitty, and she dealt with an abusive father (not any longer, thank God, her mother finally left him permanently) as well as several severe psychological problems. We always used to joke about suicide, saying how that because we failed a test/tripped in the hallway/sneezed, we would "kill ourselves." So when she sent me an instant message on a not-so-special autumn evening saying that she was considering to "end it," I didn't think much of it and sent her the link to your suicide article, telling her that if she was going to do it, that she should do it right. She loved it and thought it was hysterical. She'd never been to your Site before so I told her a bit about you and what you write, and she read a good portion of your other articles. To wit, your article on how she could kill herself saved her life, and for that I owe you my undying gratitude. However, the next day I discovered that she hadn't been kidding. She confessed to having attempted suicide earlier that very day, and if it weren't for you, there's a very good chance that she would be dead. Instead, she's now out of her recovery home and attending school. She'll be going to a local university next year. Thank you for not only your brilliant entertainment over the years, but also for saving my friend's life, even if you did it inadvertently. You really are a magnificent writer with a great wit, and I truly enjoy going to your website and reading your articles (and don't even get me started on Alphabet of Manliness, which was fantastic). As an amateur writer, I can only hope to aspire to your sort of level. Thanks again, and never stop doing your thing. S