Leo's perspective on suicide?

[Joseph Maynor]

5 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I too did a lot of research. MND is idiopathic in nature, but there is some genetic causes also, I believe?

One pattern we came across was pesticides. My aunt grew up in an area of Australia (farming and agriculture) that has a large quantity of cases of MND in a small locale. Farmland. The hospitals noticed the large volume of cases from the one area and a small information, research and support group was founded. They are currently doing investigation but it is suspected agricultural pesticides may be a contributing factor. 

My aunt swam every day in the rivers in the area.... diagnosed with MND after a lot of confusion and misdiagnosis for 16months. She is 70 years old.

Pesticides can be an issue especially if you are relying on ground water.  

[Mellowmarsh]

Everything becomes dangerous for your mental health, only when you believe you have a mind of your own. A owned mind is the creator of fear, life and death, that it believes to be real, and the fear of death is also the fear of life. The mind fears not being alive even as it is alive, its already fearing its own death and of not being alive, and so everything thought about starts to feel dangerous.

 

In reality, nothing ever harmed you except the false attachment to your own self created mind. You are always safe in the space of the place where you were never born, and never died. Only the mind is born. The mind trap is a self inflicted trap of its own making, a synthetic simulation of a living brain interfacing with an external reality of its own creation,albeit illusory.
 

No one was ever harmed in the making of this movie. No one was ever in danger of losing a life they never had in the first place. Because there’s no one taking a stand by means of holding the position of first or last place here in limitless space.

God said: I hang the entire world upon nothing. The world is my mind,  ultimately, nothing is missing.

[Breakingthewall]

4 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I too did a lot of research. MND is idiopathic in nature, but there is some genetic causes also, I believe?

One pattern we came across was pesticides. My aunt grew up in an area of Australia (farming and agriculture) that has a large quantity of cases of MND in a small locale. Farmland. The hospitals noticed the large volume of cases from the one area and a small information, research and support group was founded. They are currently doing investigation but it is suspected agricultural pesticides may be a contributing factor. 

My aunt swam every day in the rivers in the area.... diagnosed with MND after a lot of confusion and misdiagnosis for 16months. She is 70 years old.

6 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

 

From what I've read, there was a high incidence in the Italian football league, and the reason was never determined. It was also seen in former professional athletes and military personnel, and on the island of Guam for a few years.

The point is, the triggers can be many, but the process itself is not understood. There is a genetic form of ALS, but it behaves differently. The latest research suggests that ALS is not a single disease but something triggered by multiple factors, perhaps a prion or mitochondrial component.

Not only are motor neurons affected, but many other cells as well. However, motor neurons are extremely demanding cells, with axons up to half a meter long, and are the most susceptible to dying.