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2005-09-21 Britain

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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-21 00:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 *TREES* *HUGS*

Posted by DADA 2005-09-21 01:00|| 2005-09-21 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe a charitable Darwin Honorable Mention?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-09-21 01:47|| 2005-09-21 01:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr Sumner was a talented, intelligent man who felt frustrated by his illness and who said he did not wish to be a parasite.

He was an artist. How could he avoid being a parasite?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-21 07:21|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-21 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "He could have been there for a few days. If you handcuff yourself to a tree you would die fairly quickly but maybe not as quickly as you would like."

...Long enough to wish it was shorter, I'll tell ya that.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-21 07:49|| 2005-09-21 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Not funny. Schizophrenia is a real disease with terrible consequences, and this quy probably had had enough of it. At least he had the grace to do it where his family wouldn't see, unlike Hunter Thompson.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2005-09-21 07:51|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2005-09-21 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Not funny.

Yeah, it is. The underlying cause and eventual effect may be tragic, but the overall story is funny.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-21 07:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-21 07:57|| Front Page Top

#7 "His idea was to kill himself but he couldn't do it because he couldn't upset everybody, including the people who would find his body," she said. She said that was the reason he had gone so far into the wood - in the hope his remains would not be found.

Could've been worse.
Some kid could've found him a few weeks after he began decomposing. Then another person would no doubt be badly affected by dude's screwed-uppedness.

This guy was likely trapped inside a place in his mind that makes Guantanamo Hotel look like a day spa, and was still concerned about how his actions affected others. Somewhat noble and very disturbing.

Bloody horrible way to live, and an equally screwed up way to die.

I pray for him and the many haunted by Schizophrenia like him whose only escape from such a hell is death.

Poor bastard.

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-09-21 11:54|| 2005-09-21 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 #3 He was an artist. How could he avoid being a parasite?

Yeah, him and all those other detestable leeches like, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrant, Rubens, Tintoretto, Carvaggio, Hiroshige, Rodin, Matisse, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet ...

Posted by The Z Man 2005-09-21 12:50|| 2005-09-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually it says in here that he was "a scenic artist for opera productions". Doesn't that make him like a glorified prop man or house painter?

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-21 12:58|| 2005-09-21 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 No it makes him an artist.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-21 13:25|| 2005-09-21 13:25|| Front Page Top

#11 where those artists appreciated fully before or after death?

Posted by Uninetle Hupating2229 2005-09-21 16:57|| 2005-09-21 16:57|| Front Page Top

#12 I have deep sympathies with the woman who found him. My dad found the body of an 18-year-old girl in the woods in central Louisiana in 1964 about two weeks after she'd been murdered. My dad was a WWII veteran, and had seen plenty of dead bodies, but this one really shook him up. He hadn't "gotten over it" when he died in 1990. To make matters worse, it was someone I'd known from high school (from another school, not the one I attended, but someone I considered a friend). Her parents were a near neighbor to and friends of one of my cousins. Not that it matters much - finding a body is shocking, period.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-21 18:01|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-21 18:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Not that I'm comparing, but DaVinci did a lot of scenery painting in his time. It gave him something to do in between taking corpses apart to explore their innards. (I'm not judging that either -- my mother went to Med. School for the fun of it.)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-21 19:05|| 2005-09-21 19:05|| Front Page Top

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