asher

plural ashers · alternative ASHer

1. A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the topics of suicide and depression.

   Ashers offer such good arguments. Like: "You're dumb."

   2001, John T. Kennedy, “Libertarians, Suicide, & the "Social Contract [TROLL]”, in alt.test (Usenet)

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   ANYONE who first stumbles upon ash is bound to want to SAVE these desperately unhappy people. If you think Daisy was the first or last person trying to knock sense into the ashers, you are wrong. And from my observations, Anyone with only good intentions, (say trying to give ashers a spiritual outlook) is visciously ^([sic]) attacked by ash.

   1998, im__naked, “everybody`s got 2 cents RIGHT?”, in alt.support.grief (Usenet)

   I can't remember how this thread started to be honest, but if someone said that suicide won't affect others, I agree with you about that. In fact I think all ASHers would agree that a suicide is not an isolated event that won't make ripples in the life of others.

   1998, Marc, “MESSAGE TO JENNY M.”, in alt.angst (Usenet)

   Some ashers dislike and ridicule online forums like asd, that provide a more traditional forms ^([sic]) of support, as useless and requiring insincere displays of affection. This view is quite subjective. The support on asd suits those who read it, and not ashers.

   2007, slunky, “Is it true that you can't commit suicide with pills?”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet)

1. biblicalThe eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.

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   Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22b-26

2. biblicalOne of the Israelite tribes, descended from Asher.

   And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 21:30

3. A male given name from Hebrew.
4. rareA female given name from Hebrew.
5. A surname.

   Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst whose Crime Index is widely used by policymakers and researchers to track shifts in violence, explained that last year’s homicide reduction is part of a three-year trend following a historic spike.

   2026 August 6, Meaghan McDonald, Michael Friedrich, “Why Are Homicides Declining Across the United States?”, in Pew

6. A town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.

plural ASHers

1. Alternative letter-case form of asher.

   I honestly don't think ASHers are particularly well served by having their stuff hauled on to the religion ngs *very wry grin*

   2005 September 10, Jani, “Re: Suicide websites”, in alt.bible (Usenet)

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   I can't remember how this thread started to be honest, but if someone said that suicide won't affect others, I agree with you about that. In fact I think all ASHers would agree that a suicide is not an isolated event that won't make ripples in the life of others.

   1998, Marc, “MESSAGE TO JENNY M.”, in alt.angst (Usenet)

   When Robert Cohn posted his request, he was careful to strip out alt.suicide.holiday [ASH], because he was trying to delete the cross-posting. [Other ASHers did the same thing but some weren't nice about it, so perhaps they were ignored.]

   2000 May 8, Gail Futoran, “what is the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup ?”, in rec.gardens.roses (Usenet)