Wow. It’s amazing that overnight, you can find out a big dark family secret, that your cousin maybe going insane, that your sister-friend was hospitalised for shock after witnessing a bomb blast in Egypt… this is the kind of sudden turn of many events that I used to use as an example in psychology discussions of why suicide is a bad idea – ‘you never know what’s going to happen next’. All of a sudden it looks like a pretty crap and disempowering excuse.
