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Does anyone know about the suicide/murder in the park? I walked there early this morning with my partner and the gates were all closed excpet for the one by the lake and the area around the shelter in the Japanese Garden area was cordined off with Police tape. Passersby were saying a body had been found in the shelter by a member of the public early this morning and that it was either a murder or a suicide. I'd be reassured to know if it was the latter, sad as it may be. I walk there every day, quite early too.


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This is very sad news indeed. I hope his family and friends are able to do their best to deal with this tragedy. If there is one practical thing anyone can do after hearing this news it's to really understand that depression is a killer and to try to reach out to people who go through it, whatever its guise. Nero
wht is it being assumed this person suffered from depression,just because someone decides to take their life it dosent mean they suffer from depression or any type of mental illness for that matter. i do appreciate that sometimes it does go hand in hand but there are numerous other reasons why people commit suicide and not just because they are depressed.

Of course I know that Mark, but my comment was referring to Spadetownboy's assertion that you don't have to be depressed to commit suicide.

I would think that being very lonely leads to depression 'a disorder characterised by extreme gloom, feelings of inadequacy and inability to concentrate' ergo not cheery, happy and carefree. And does excitement make one feel like ending it all? Obviously there are many states of mind and many emotions but how many of these can be described as above and lead one to end one's life. Heartbreak maybe, but again does that not lead on, in its worst case, to what is termed depression?

Depression is a state of mind - not an emotion.

smith Wrote:

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> There are more reasons than depression that people

> choose this route - guilt and cowardice being just

> two. Not at all saying this is what's happened in

> this sad incident, but identifying with

> spadetownboy's comments.


I agree that depression isn't always the cause of suicide, but the cowardice thing always annoys me! As far as I'm concerned, it would take a lot of guts to top yourself, and it's not "the coward's way out"!

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