Robert M. Gary ) wrote:

If he was really dying of this cancer it seems pretty selfish for
"countless" others to want him to live in his misery for their
benefit. In the U.S. we have a seriously distorted cultural adversness
to suicide. Too much catholicism. I applaud the guy. He took control
of his destiny and did what he wanted to do.

Fine. Then kill yourself in the comfort of your own home.

This old man's blaze of glory could have resulted in the deaths of others,
including the pilot who became distracted attempting to save the man's life
as well as other, truly innocent victims on the ground. And to those who
caught a glimpse of the severed torso or the man's intestines splashed on
the ground?

Where I live there is a large shopping mall that has a wide opening seven
stories high in the center. In each of the four corners of this large
opening is a glass elevator.

One week before Easter a few years ago, a distraught, middle-aged woman
climbed out over the railing and dove to her death several floors below.

She landed literally a yard or two from a line of children waiting to see
the Easter bunny. Her blood and body parts splashed several of the
children.

Would you applaud that blaze of glory? How about if your four-year old
daughter was one of the children who needed the woman's brains washed out
of her pretty, golden hair?

IMO, the old man was quite wrong in the method of his death, not in his
decision to do commit suicide.

--
Peter












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