Man Commits Suicide Over Election.

[Theben]

Don't use my words to prove any point of yours, you conservative bastard.

[Dis]

edit: this post is out of date

[ajbera]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


Oh, well actually I was think more along the lines of slitting my throat and spraying everyone nearby with my blood. Burning myself alive would be too painful and might cause more extensive damage and blowing my brains out would end it too quickly to maximize the trauma witnesses would experience.

Seppuku!!

[Lefty Scaevola]

The schmuck was depressed

"Bloggers on the liberal Democratic Underground website have overwhelmingly labeled Nov. 3, 2004, the day after Election Day, "more depressing" than Sept. 11, 2001 in a poll of online members.

Seventy-two percent of poll takers said they believed the day Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) conceded defeat in the presidential election was more tragic than the day more than 3,000 Americans were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and on a hijacked plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field."

[Arrian]

The people on that website must be morons.

This guy was clearly mentally ill. I don't think suicide proves anything.

My (half) brother jumped off the GWB because he was depressed. He had two kids. I don't condemn him, but I sure don't think highly of his final choice.

-Arrian

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Burning myself alive would be too painful

Surprisingly, being burned alive isn't all that painful. At first it is, but the nerves are very quickly destroyed and after that, you feel nothing.

[RGBVideo]

Was it Sava? I remember how he was saying two years ago that the only reason for him to live was to see Bush kicked out of office...

[Theben]

Originally posted by Arrian
The people on that website must be morons.

Not really. 9/11 I felt shock, horror, sadness, and anger, but not depression. I can see how a Bush victory would be more 'depressing'.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Theben

Not really. 9/11 I felt shock, horror, sadness, and anger, but not depression. I can see how a Bush victory would be more 'depressing'.

That's very interesting, but the poll question was whether they found the day of Kerry's defeat to be more tragic than 9/11, and 72% of them did.

[Theben]

Whoops, skimskied that part.

Well, then maybe the people on that site haven't had to deal with a real tragedy up close and personal yet.

[Winston]

That, or they're just morons as Arrian observed.

[chequita guevara]

Or maybe you're the something rotten in Denmark.

[Drake Tungsten]

So much for the "noble suicide protestor" BS...

WTC SUICIDE NOTE
By MURRAY WEISS, DAVID SCHARFENBERG and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN

November 9, 2004 -- A 25-year-old Georgia man left behind a bizarre, handwritten travelogue detailing his somber thoughts and often quirky adventures before he ended his life with a shotgun blast to the head in the construction pit of Ground Zero.

Andrew Veal's three-page missive, which cops found in his parked car near the site, at first shows a man amused over the purchase of his suicide weapon and later anguished over his passion for two women: his fiancée and a love from his hometown, Athens, Ga.

Although the letter isn't dated, Veal was last seen by his friends on election night. He is believed to have set out on his final journey sometime the following day.

At first, his friends believed he killed himself over the outcome of the election, but his written musings never mention it.

His first entry is about buying the gun, the same gun he used to kill himself sometime early Saturday while he sat on a concrete box in the pit of Ground Zero with a bottle of Jack Daniels at his side.

"I got 60 rounds of shells and I'm driving toward the beach or Jersey. I'm still in Walmart . . . I just bought a Smith and Wesson 12-gauge action shotgun. I can't wait to fire it. I can contact Trent, but if I do I won't tell him about the shotgun because he'll get nervous." As he drives closer to Manhattan, Veal reveals his anguish over two women.

Veal who was engaged to an Iowa college student, Audrey Grieme, 21, reveals his feelings toward another woman named Karen, who lives in Athens.

"I think I expressed my feelings to Karen with all certainty today. What bad timing. What an ass- - - I am. I learned early what it is to fall in love with someone. But I never learned how not to."

"She doesn't deserve the turmoil I am sure to put her through. She is one of the most altruistic people."

Veal's addresses his last lines to his parents.

"To mom and Dad please know this is not your fault. It's my own doing. I'm thinking of you now. I love you both very much."

http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/33757.htm

Very sad, both the death and the attempts to use it to score political points...

[Drachasor]

Ted Striker:

Sava:

People with little or no compassion:

I am quite frankly shocked at the lack of compassion many of the posters on this thread have shown. Someone kills themself and it seems like most of you can't even have an ounce of sympathy, instead decrying the person and insulting him. That's grotesque.

Wether or not he killed himself for purely political reasons is a different issue, though it certainly seems like the election might have been the last straw. This issue, no matter how it turns out or has turned out, is no reason to be so cruel; so lacking in basic decency. That kind of attitude and behavior only serve to push and exclude people, to drive them to these kinds of acts of desperation.

Some of you need to take a long, hard look at yourselves.

-Drachasor

[The Mad Monk]

Wow.

That is the most opportunistic piece of faux-compassionate rhetorical crap I have read here in a long time, Drachasor.