Posted on 01/02/2009 4:48:25 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Freshly unemployed, former business executive Bruce J. Colburn flew to the far northwest corner of Montana in search of a place to die.
In early October, he paid a hotel clerk to drive him into Glacier National Park. He spent the night in a campground and then made his way on foot to a valley between two deep glacial lakes. On a forested slope not far from the trail, he shot himself in the chest with a handgun, according to park officials.
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sheesh....
national park or a city park, it is a better way to go than at work where they decide to take an ex co worker with them.
Just my opinion
Right - because people planning to shoot themselves are so concerned about the legal details. Stupid journalists.
he shot himself in the chest with a handgun/parks cause suisides.
Is Old Faithful really that disappointing?
The article doesn’t mention anything about concealed weapons and only mentions guns one time.
Besides, it’s illegal to commit suicide.
He shot himself in the chest? Hmmmm Sounds more like assisted suicide to me....
“The article doesn’t mention anything about concealed weapons”
Just you wait.....
Out of work, off yourself? If he’d been registered RAT (or Green, or CPUSA, or Socialist Workers) he could have waited a few months and enlisted in Obama’s National Security Force, and been shooting conservatives instead of himself!
LOL! This is a stupid article. Most people don't kill themselves standing by the side of the local freeway or at the fountain in the mall but, unless they're total whack-jobs, look for a secluded place. It's silly to act as if the National Parks were somehow to blame for the fact that depressive types seek out remote places to kill themselves. Maybe everybody who visits a park now will be given a special anti-suicide monitor device when they check in...
I find this article depressing...
I’m disappointed. 11 comments and still no mention of Vince Foster. How soon we forget...
I have to wonder about the lives these people led if it was so bad for them to lose their job.
Quite often I think I would be happy to have less than I have and a job that doesn’t require responsibility.
Call it, forced simplification...
“Quite often I think I would be happy to have less than I have and a job that doesn’t require responsibility.”
I’ll be finding out, next week.....
It must have cost a small fortune to pay 40 people to find that one guy.
......And 33 suicides.
Very relevant article.
Its not a “new” cost. Its billed to a different account but there was no increase in personnel cost. Increased costs for search materials like gas etc., yes.
Back in the 1980s, I heard a rumor that someone had set up an illegal rural cemetery for people who wanted to “die in peace.”
It was an interesting concept, meant for people who felt that for the duration of their lives, they had been “under the microscope”, and who wanted to deny the voyeurs of their lives the satisfaction of knowing for sure that they were dead, or where they were buried.
They had lots of other reasons as well. Some were neurotically afraid of autopsy, or having their organs taken from them against their will. Others had lawyers or lawmen pestering them for any number of reasons. Still others had secrets they wanted to take to the grave, which otherwise would have become known.
Ironically, some wanted to be buried there because they wanted a funeral in the religion of their belief, which they knew would not be honored by their survivors.
Funny that even in dying and death, people cannot abide letting others pass away and be buried in peace.
Best of luck to you!
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