[steplock]

I would venture to say that a person does NOT commit suicide unless he has one HELL of a guilty concience. If the excuse is "he was mentally unbalanced" makes this person even more of a hazard to scholl children.

That one accusation may have been untrue (or exagerrated) but something drove this guy to the jump and it wasn't this one incident.

Since he is dead, there will be no more investigation to see why.

I do not feel sorry for those who would kill themselves - Was he a member of ELF or ALF or the Sierra Clib also?

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"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society unless the parents hold a government license ... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."

David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, founder of Friends of the Earth, and founder of the Earth Island Institute

[steplock]

please excuse my dyslexic fingers ...

scholl = school Clib = Club

(for you perfectionist who never mistype anything)

[Non-Sequitur]

I would venture to say that a person does NOT commit suicide unless he has one HELL of a guilty concience. If the excuse is "he was mentally unbalanced" makes this person even more of a hazard to scholl children.

I'm sorry but I think that's nonsense. A man works his whole life, builds his reputation based on his character, and sees all that he has worked for destroyed in an instant by a malicious accusation that he knows will be impossible to overcome, regardless of the police findings? No matter what there will be those, like yourself, who believe that where there was smoke then there should have been fire. So his entire life's work is trashed, his name smeared, his sense of honor impinged. And you can't see how someone might take their own life under those circumstances?

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I just got a fundraising/membership solicitin letter from the Sierra Club. I'm guessing they got our name through a photography magazine we receive. I wish I'd had that quote before I tossed the stuff in the trash.

[Free Trapper]

I once drove a "fully" loaded semi-truck into an obstacle at highway speed knowing full well that I was killing myself.

It was that or run across six lanes of bumper to bumper cars just before school time because computer brakes failed on a downhill run.

It was a quick choice I made,and beyond belief,I made it,although the truck didn't.

I can't judge all suicides so easily and I'm one person that hates ALF,ELF and the like.They'd be thrilled to have "me" dead. :o)

PackerBoy,I had faith then,and if anything,more now.I had an experience,that I'm unable to describe with words,as I wrecked,that was similar to what are called NDEs.

[em2vn]

How did you arrive at such an unbalanced,egocentric,self-important conclusion? He might well have been devastated by the shame and embarassment he felt after being held up to public ridicule and suspicion.

[VOA]

I would venture to say that a person does NOT commit suicide unless he has
one HELL of a guilty concience.

Maybe.
I think it can also be fear of enduring upcoming suffering, merited or not.

My undersatanding is that a German inventor, pressured by some family real-estate
investments that had soured through himself into the sea and was lost.
Too bad...soon the patents came through on his variant of an internal combustion engine.
Thus, poor Diesel wasn't around when the family had so much money that they didn't
know how to spend it all.

I hope I haven't reported an urban myth, but that's the story I've heard before.