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Thread #87307   Message #1629086
Posted By: Rapparee
16-Dec-05 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thoughts About Suicide
Subject: RE: BS: Thoughts About Suicide
He was an artist and a pretty good one. One hot July day his wife couldn't find him -- she walked into a shed and found him. Hanging from a beam. Eventually, her two sons were taken away and she was committed to a mental facility. No one, as far as I know, has ever figured out why he did what he did. And as far as I know, she's spent the last 30+ years in the care of the State of Ohio.

Two years later, Mom came home from shopping and the garage door opened upon the body of her son. He'd killed himself by firing a 12 gauge shotgun into his head. Why? as far as anyone could tell, because he'd dropped from an "A" to an "A-" average. Not that his parents cared -- they had been a close family and apparently a happy one that put no special emphasis on good grades. Dad took to drinking heavily and Mom eventually divorced him and took the two other kids.

Suicide is not a victimless crime.