Fox News Airs Suicide Following Car Chase. Shep Smith: ‘We really messed up and I am sorry’

[davidthegnome]

58. In that case I apologize

It's something I take very seriously - and I'm glad that you wouldn't make fun of someone who was mentally ill.

Perhaps the way I see such things are colored by my own experience... but when I hear of someone taking their own life, the conclusion I tend to jump to is that they were mentally ill (a term containing far more stigma than it should). There are other explanations, of course, drugs... perhaps the recent diagnosis of a terminal illness, losing a loved one or a job. Such things can push one over the edge.

I do wonder if, in this case, the media - or, more appropriately, fox news - might have given this man that little extra push that pushed him over. It's damnably sad in any event, who might he have been and what might he have accomplished with his life? We'll never know. Someone that was full of life and potential could see no route to take other than taking their own life. That's always sad.