Sad or mad?

I don’t know how I feel about this but I think I feel sad he could get to a place where he can do this and think it it the best thing to do.

6 comments ↓

#1 blowfish on 11.10.06 at 12:39 pm

errrm - I certainly know the link is a bit mad….

#2 soop on 11.10.06 at 12:47 pm

Oopsie!

#3 blowfish on 11.10.06 at 12:58 pm

I’m leaning towards mad rather than sad. The fact that he had few friends and an estranged son (at his sons request) says to me, he really didn’t fit in. That kind of troubled mind can often lead to a full membership to “exit”. People are saying he’s getting no news coverage - how many suicides do?

#4 soop on 11.10.06 at 1:22 pm

Hmm, I see what you are saying. Perhaps Sad or Mad was a difficult question to answer. I think, after reading most of the comments on the post that I fall much more on the compassionate reaction side than the “he’s a mad man and idiot” side. Mad, troubled or completely sane, he seemed to be very lucid and driven in his website and his opinions (obviously not his actions) held some weight with me and the Iraq thing.

As for the suicide coverage, it seems niavely (sp?), I had no idea there was a general rule for not reporting suicides in the media. Is that possibly US based, I see suicide reports in the local news don’t I?

#5 ferr on 11.10.06 at 7:48 pm

Sad, mad and a complete twat…no loss to the rest of us.

#6 jez on 11.12.06 at 11:46 pm

pass me a marshmellow on a stick