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The Putticks

I’ve seen a number of interesting articles on suicide recently, and I was interested in whether the readers here had any opinions.  First, there was this sad story that I saw on BicoastalBitchin–a cute little boy dies of an infection, and his distraught parents kill themselves by jumping off a 500 foot cliff (see pic above).  Then, there was the story of the eminent orchestra conductor Sir Edward Downes, who killed himself in order to die with his terminally ill wife.  Then yesterday, there was the story of a man in Britain who was jailed for giving his terminally ill father a gun to kill himself.  Along the way, there was also the story of Ron Takaki, pre-eminent Asian American historian, who killed himself ostensibly over an illness.