Man Starves Himself To Death In Treehouse

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-14-2008 | Harry de Quetteville

[blam]

Man starves himself to death in treehouse

By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin
Last Updated: 1:48am GMT 14/02/2008

A man in Germany has committed suicide by hiding deep in a forest and starving himself to death.

The man, who has not been named, kept a diary as his life ebbed away.

Police said that two hunters had found the decaying corpse of the 58-year-old man in an isolated hide.

It was discovered in a make-shift treehouse 16ft off the ground in a forest about 60 miles from his hometown of Hanover.

By his body was a chronicle of the 24 days he spent there before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage, his estrangement from his daughter and his long-term unemployment.

The last entry in the diary was written on Dec 13, almost two months ago.

Police described the death as a "clear suicide" and said that they would pass on the diary to the man's daughter, as he had requested that they should do in an entry in the notebook.

[blam]

How sad.

Death by a broken heart?

[KTM rider]

pretty sad, too bad he didn't have a dog, that might have saved him

kinda reminds me of jilted conservatives , "starving themselves in the voting booth"

[kenavi]

"We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
What blame to us if the heart live on."

("Chaplinesque", by Hart Crane)

[BurbankKarl]

If a man dies in a tree, does he make a sound?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

kinda reminds me of jilted conservatives , "starving themselves in the voting booth"

You know, I was so weary of the name calling and conservative-bashing on the 'political' threads, so I decided to read only those that couldn't possibly be about politics. But thanks to you ...

[vladimir998]

The sad thing is we will probably discover - if we knew all the facts in the case of this poor man - that his suicide is the only time he took initiative to do anything with his life.

No job in Germany?

Move somehwere else. Get new training. Start a second career.

Estranged from your daughter? Will killing yourself help that any?

Upset over the break up of your marriage? Want revenge? Then live on and be happy - she’ll hate that. Want to find peace? Then live on and be happy - you’ll love that. Want her back? Sorry, all you can have is memories, but they’re a lot more enjoyable than starving yourself to death in a treehouse in the woods.

Suicide is simple stupid. I pity this poor man. He still could have had a good life. Now he’s thrown it all away.

[shibumi]

"If a man dies in a tree, does he make a sound?"


No.


But the possums and vultures do.

[GOPJ]

Suicide is simple stupid. I pity this poor man. He still could have had a good life. Now he’s thrown it all away.

Suicide - a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

[Joe 6-pack]

"How sad. Death by a broken heart?"

Sounds more like death by an empty stomach.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I think it is likely he had some other mental disorder. Being unemployed for a long period and estranged from his own daughter signals more than just a broken heart, don’t you think?

[shibumi]

" Being unemployed for a long period and estranged from his own daughter signals more than just a broken heart, don’t you think?"


Quite right. It's a primary symptom of ASES. (Acute Socialist Eurotrash Syndrome.)

[linton59]

thanks. i needed that!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Yes, I agree that there was more going on with this man.

[Saundra Duffy]

That’s what they did to Terri Schiavo. How very sad.

[MaxMax]

When I was growing up near Houston there was an area in the back of the subdivision
where old men would park their cars and drink themselves to death.

[hedgetrimmer]

The Baron of the Trees, Italo Calvino

[BenLurkin]

This instance may have proven true the old maxim that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”

[NonLinear]

You know, I was so weary of the name calling and conservative-bashing on the 'political' threads, so I decided to read only those that couldn't possibly be about politics. But thanks to you ...

JustaDumbBlond is incorrect on one point. Her handle. I agree fully.

[NonLinear]

You know, I was so weary of the name calling and conservative-bashing on the 'political' threads, so I decided to read only those that couldn't possibly be about politics. But thanks to you ...

JustaDumbBlond is incorrect on one point. Her handle. I agree fully.

[modican]

....deep in a forest, starving himself to death in a make-shift treehouse... life ebbed away.

The only way to go. A personal decision, with full recognition of the larger Forces. A fine way to return to the Continuum. Using the final frontier, going fully Conscious into your own melting.