Sunday, October 02, 2005

An Act of Desperation

Last night someone took their own life.

I was with the 84,000 fans inside the OU football stadium near where this person ended his/her life in despair.

I did not hear the explosion. I probably did not know the person.

I wonder if I would have noticed the desperation had I known the person.

There have been occassions when I did know someone who committed suicide and did not perceive the pain in their life before they took it.

After the fact, I learned that most of them were gay.

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3 comments:

grandma1 said...

Does that include the boy in highschool?

Monk-in-Training said...

Are you saying that of the suicides you personally have known, the majority were gay? I remember when Oral Roberts son killed him self because of that way back in the early 80's or so. So very sad, what a black hole of dispair. :(

Bruce Prescott said...

Harold,

Fertilizer bombs seem to be the preferred MO our homegrown terrorists.

It sounds like we are fortunate that more people weren't hurt.