Posted on 08/08/2016 5:51:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The husband of an Ohio schoolteacher, who was severely injured when four men dropped a rock on her car from a highway overpass, killed himself late Saturday night – and the prosecutor who jailed the rock-throwers blames them for Randy Budd’s suicide.
Budd, 55, was pronounced dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Ohio residence, Harry Campbell, chief investigator for Ohio’s Stark County Coroner’s office, told the AP on Sunday.
“Randy Budd did not die from a gunshot,” Union County District Attorney D. Peter Johnson told pennlive.com. “He died when those kids threw a rock through his windshield.”
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“Randy Budd did not die from a gunshot,” Union County District Attorney D. Peter Johnson told pennlive.com. “He died when those kids threw a rock through his windshield.”
We live in a lost and fallen world. Bad things happen to good people every single day. Suicide is the most cowardly reaction I can imagine.
Its not responsible for the prosecutor to blame a suicide on the wife's injury. The kids should be punished for throwing the rock and hurting the wife and endangering others, but suicide is based on a number of psychological and perhaps genetic factors. Lots of people have family members injured in crimes and don't kill themselves.
It’s easy to call it cowardly. Different people react differently to similar situations, it’s part of the human condition. Depression is a monster, if he suffered from that.
Dear Sir
Please be careful with that paintbrush. My husband completed suicide almost two years ago. You have just called the man I spent 40 years with a coward. I wonder how many others saw your callous comment, but were too ashamed to let you know how angry you’ve made them.
I am not ashamed. So step out back with me, kind sir, and I will kick your ass.
Oh, and if you’re of a religious bent, yeah, I’ve got you covered there too. “Judge not, lest you be judged.”
It’s ON!
If the guy was of the mind that he wanted to kill himself, he should have just offed the five f#%&ers who committed that crime and pleaded guilty in exchange for a death sentence.
You obviously don't believe that, because if you did, you wouldn't be judging him.
Agree 100%
Did your husband think of what would emotions and feelings you would have before he completed suicide?
my sincere condolences...
Sorry, he was a coward. It really doesn't matter what drove him to it. He chose the easy way out and left behind, people who relied on HIM, to fend for themselves.
The only reason I would accept if he was in extreme pain and terminally ill. I could understand that. But, you did not give any details.
There are things worse than death...
There are things worse than death...
He killed himself and left an injured wife behind???? I will keep my opinion to myself.
Anyone who commits suicide must have faced such agony that they thought death preferable to life. I can’t imagine how horrible that must feel, but to judge it as “cowardly” is to miss the point. I think it actually takes great courage — misguided courage, to be sure, and courage better spent fighting to live, but courage all the same.
However, it is a selfish act, and one that ignores, if not abdicates, responsibility for the pain it will leave behind.
Well that would certainly be a cowardly way out...
With him dead, she may get better care and medical benefits...with him alive he’d have to provide complex care that he may not have had the money or resources to give her...It’s a perverse situation Obama care has thrust our nation into. I think he shouldn’t have killed himself, the help would have come from some place...he may have had lingering depression issues that became unbearable for him with the loss of his wife’s “normal presence and company” that had kept him grounded and stable!
Where in the bible, any bible, is suicide endorsed?
If any of you don’t object to suicide, how can you oppose Obamacare’s “death panels” and doctors that encourage sick patients to consider ending their own lives?
It’s a slippery slope....
You make a good point. I should not have said cowardly.
The word I was looking for was “selfish”. Narcissistic comes to mind as well.
But to be clear, I’ve known of several relatives in my circle of friends who committed suicide. In fact, my own daughter attempted it, though it was in the vein of, “when women attempt suicide, they are calling out for help, but when men attempt suicide, they are trying to kill themselves.”
This is why more women attempt suicide than men, but more men are actually successful in killing themselves.
The thing is, though, that I subscribe to what Brian Tracy says about bad actions: Everyone is doing what they think is the appropriate action for the circumstances, be it helping an old lady across the street, murder, rape, suicide, or anything else. Humans can ALWAYS justify, in their own mind, whatever they are doing. It’s how we are wired. It’s what causes a person on a diet to go ahead and have that jelly doughnut. They’ve justified it in their mind.
Something bad happened to me a couple of decades ago in my 40’s. I cried for three solid days. But I never even considered suicide. And the life I’ve lived since that event is better than the life before it. Significantly so.
I have no compassion for the act of taking ones own life. One reason is that I have no compassion for the dead. They are dead and an irrelevance to this world. I hope to see many of them anew in eternity though.
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