Whats all the fuss about. if someone wants to suicide they should knock themselves out.{no pun intended} why should the burden fall on the majority to ensure they stay alive. Considering humans are not an endangered specie with a unsustainable population growth the planet should be grateful another consumer with a trail of polution is de activated.

Hi there DAVID F & BANJO PATTERSON...

I guess to every obverse there's a reverse. The survivors must finally give a sigh of relief when a loved one finally passes on from a terminal illness ? Conversely, those wretched souls inflicted by depression, loneliness, sense of abandonment, and feelings of desertion, finally get the peace they so eagerly seek, when they commit suicide. Leaving the survivors, wracked with a sense of guilt, feeling sorry for themselves, often saying;

"If only I'd known, we could've talked about it and sorted the whole thing out, without the need for them doing away with themselves" ? "Oh poor bugger me, how could they do such a thing, how selfish of them" ? "Oh poor me".

Often the reasons for someone taking their life, is clearly evident for months on end, even years ? And we're either too busy, too selfish, or too something or other, to listen ? Uttering words like he/she has got to learn to stand on their own two feet and face their problems, just simply grow up ! just platitudes, tired ol' (meaningless) platitudes ?

The morning after Elizabeth's suicide, the Qld police contacted me by phone (I'm in NSW, Elizabeth resided on the Gold Coast, QLD.) asking me the usual questions concerning what I knew of her lifestyle etc.

One of the statements he made '...you're an ex copper, you know how it is...'? Yes I knew 'how it was, OK', but it didn't diminish the profound shock, the 'stunning' effect her death had on me, and still has, 18 months on. And it still hurts me every day.

Hi there ONTHEBEACH...

Your sentiments are greatly received, they really are. Your decency and compassion are so very welcome, though I don't believe I necessarily deserve them ? We were divorced, but remained on excellent terms, with no acrimony or antipathy whatsoever. She often remarked, we would've been better as brother and sister rather than a married couple ? Still, that's completely moot I should think.

She often thought my job caused many of our difficulties too ? There might be some truth in that, as there's a pretty high divorce rate amongst our lot, so I'm told, and I tend to believe it to be honest with you ?

ONTHEBEACH, thank you again for your humanity, I sincerely appreciate it, believe me.

Dear onthebeach,

You sound very decent. I think everybody deserves decency and compassion, but not everyone gets it,

Paul is against all suicides UNLESS they occur as a result of refusing food and water. But you must sift carefully through his blog to unearth this lump of hypocrisy.

https://youtu.be/ge7dlzMCbos?t=6491

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Dear o sung wu,

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Your story revives a familiar melody that often plays in my mind as my dear wife and I continue to advance in life as one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0MkpcI3khY

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