Don, I was recently surprised to read that more people in America die via suicide then from murder. Amazing, eh? Best Wishes In a message dated 2/18/2012 5:03:55 A.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
My initial reaction was the same as Glenn's: what a waste that she took her own life. I also understand Greg's viewpoint that only she knew her life. The article didn't give us enough information to make any "judgement" call. So many questions not addressed: 1. did she receive adequate rehab? 2. did she have peer support? 3. was she in 'agony' due to physical or mental discomfort? were these issues addressed? 4. did she have mental health issues before her injury? 5. was she given the assistive technology to allow her maximum independence? [e.g. could she get out of her house, or access a computer?] etc. etc. Without such info I cannot say I admire or condemn her actions, but either way it's a sad story. Don. From: Greg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] What a freakin waste of a life I admire the woman. In my judgement, she and only she knew what was right for her. Can you imagine how difficult those two months were for her and her mom? Some of it must have been agonizing. I'm not sure I could do what she did. When the book becomes available in something other than EPUB format, I'll buy it. >From The Huffington Post, There's an old saying that artists have to suffer, but after six years of paralysis, Christina Symanski decided she had suffered enough.
