[Treebeard]

Aw, now, c'mon, NS, when I wished **** dying from intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine was yet undiscovered, you said I was sick, but what about poor Senator Brooks? You're happy over his suicide. That's just sick!. I'm deeply saddened.

[Non-Sequitur]

Congressman Brooks. His cousin couldn't get another senator to do his dirty work. And I'm not celebrating the suicide, which I may be wrong about. Simply noting that it was the 'honorable' thing for Brooks to do.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Preston Brooks was a Representative, not a Senator. He did not commit suicide, but died of an inflamation of the throat which choked him.