Joe, I just went back and read some of your past posts to other threads, pretty much at random. We don't post to many of the same threads and I did't have a sense of who you are. The journal entry you posted in the "Bus Stories" thread is wonderfully insightful.

But your perspective on suicide is as flat and unidimensional as can be. And, many more times than not, so is suicide.

WHether or not the person who suicides realizes it, suicide is the pentultimate social act. It resounds through a family throughout the following generations.

Really.

Truly.

And through a circle of people who knew them. Who were affiliated with them in close and more distant ways.

Nothing effects a community of people like a successful suicide.

More later. Maybe.

Janie