[Mrs. Don-o]

I am dreadfully sorry that he was apparently in his right mind and chose this cooperation with evil as a deliberate act. What a cruelty to his family. I do not judge, I cannot judge. I am sure there are more forms of madness, --"they know not what they do" --- than are found in the diagnostic handbooks.

He was apparently (that word again), apparently detached from Catholicism as anything but a civilizational force: he acknowledged neither sin nor Savior, nor hope for a personal existence beyond the one he was rejecting so sacrilegiously at the very altar of God.

I will still hope and pray that he may be snatched from the abyss. Great is Jesus' power to save.

[annalex]

The English Wikipedia quotes him to say

"The Japanese, the Jews, the Hindus and other peoples possess that treasure that has permitted them to confront the perils of history without disappearing. It is their misfortune that the majority of Europeans, and especially the French, are so impregnated with universalism that this treasure is lacking"

This perhaps explains his "S[o] we lack an ancestral religion" in the note. He succumbed to despair, but I don't find it in my heart to accuse him.

[yldstrk]

yes, suicide is the idea of the devil. This man succumbed. Never, never could this be a good thing. I count his death as caused by the evil agenda of satan to destroy the family