World Cup official shoots himself hours after tournament ends

While I sort of agree with you, I also think that if you "attempt" to commit suicide and fail at the job -- I have little sympathy for you if the family that you just traumatized finds you flopping about and decides to do what they can to keep you alive.

What if his daughter had walked in the room and found him with a bullet wound in the head but not dead? Is she expected to abandon any emotion for her daddy and leave him to his desire to leave this world?

If you're going to be selfish enough to @!$%# your loved one's up and put the guilt of your death in their hands -- don't be surprised to find that they don't want to live with that guilt when they find you alive with half a face.

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#5.1 - Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:21 PM EDT

How is that putting guilt in their hands? You make your choice and YOU live(or not in this type of case) with it. Guess what, he's gonna die anyway at sometime, you're not exactly sparing anyone any grief.

How is it selfish to want to leave a world where you feel you no longer belong? It would be selfish for everyone else to ask him to stay.

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#5.2 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:15 AM EDT

I dunno -- why don't you come back and tell me after your wife commits suicide when you have a family and you've spent a few years wondering what you did wrong and how you could have prevented it?

Spoken like a person who doesn't know anyone who has dealt with the suicide of a loved one.

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#5.3 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:19 AM EDT

I wasn't really trying to open any old wounds - I was just curious about the choice of words by the police saying "He is fighting for his life". It seemed a little incongruous with his actions.

What the affected family members do, is outside the intended scope of my comment and I'm sorry if you have had to deal with a similar situation and I hope my possibly callous comment didn't offend you.

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#5.4 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:31 AM EDT

No worries -- again I agree with you in spirit. I've never personally experienced the suicide of a close family member -- but I do know people who have.

I was just saying that there are "x" factors that complicate the matter and which can make me understand why someone might not be willing to sit by and watch him die when they come across his still-living body.

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#5.5 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:38 AM EDT

Spoken like a person who doesn't know anyone who has dealt with the suicide of a loved one.

Wrong.

I just don't judge them for it, and i do not blame myself for the choices she made.

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#5.7 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:27 AM EDT

I was just saying that there are "x" factors that complicate the matter and which can make me understand why someone might not be willing to sit by and watch him die when they come across his still-living body.

I don't think anyone would sit by and let them die, no matter what the factors.

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#5.8 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:30 AM EDT

I like your thinking.

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#6.1 - Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:38 PM EDT

I might like it too -- if he hadn't left two suicide notes. It would be pretty easy to authenticate those.

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#6.2 - Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:16 PM EDT

I think its pretty obvious that one of Bush's cronies shot him and planted the notes. Duh.

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#6.3 - Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:06 PM EDT

I don't see the connection between a German referee's suicide and italian soccer.

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#7.1 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:43 AM EDT

Always blaming the French, I see how it is :)

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#9.1 - Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:33 PM EDT