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Hard questions come in wake of suicide (Disgraced Former S.J. Mercury News Reporter)
San Jose Mercury News ^ | Thu, Dec. 16, 2004 | Scott Herhold

Posted on 12/16/2004 1:21:23 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Life is not easy sometimes. Ask any adult. I know people who have endured much worse than this guy. I feel bad for his depression and his failure to get help for it but the writer of the article seems to have a need to flog himself. I don't see it.
21 posted on 12/16/2004 2:27:54 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: beckett
He didn't go gentle into that good night. Is it possible to misinterpret the meaning of this line more completely than the author of this piece, Scott Herhold, did? Dylan Thomas' poem is a denunciation of suicide or any other behavior that is accepting of death, and Herhold dimwittedly applies it to a suicide! Rage Rage against the dying of the light Go not gentle into that good night.

He's a liberal reporter.... they don't have to study the meaning of the text they read or write... they just have to like the way it makes them FEEL or if it sounds COOl.

22 posted on 12/16/2004 2:36:26 PM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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To: pissant; onyx

Lord knows if he'll screw up. He's doing quite well in that department so far. If he tries to hang himself by his tie in his top floor office, he might end up with a broken neck.


23 posted on 12/16/2004 2:37:03 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
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To: SFC Chromey
Interesting. I didn't. In fact, I get "Welcome Guest" but also the story, and the upper right has a link to click to to register:


Most peculiar. In any case, for future reference, you can go to Bug Me Not to bypass having to register.

24 posted on 12/16/2004 3:36:46 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: paul51

Typical reaction of those around a suicide, and rather self-absorbed, if you ask me.


25 posted on 12/16/2004 3:40:13 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: martin_fierro
I know nothing about this story or this reporter, but that's life in a free-market economy. Adapt the shifting flow of the stampede or be trampled.
26 posted on 12/16/2004 3:40:43 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'm fresh out of tags. I'll pick some up tomorrow.)
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To: Gondring
Really?

Go here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299787/posts

"...died Friday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds..." I quoted the first article, not the so-called coroner's report, G. Take a pill.

27 posted on 12/16/2004 4:10:37 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

And I quoted SFC Chromey, not you... but I thought you'd like to see the weapon of demise listed, as you said you were "wondering" about it.

Pop a red pill for me, too, k? ;-)


28 posted on 12/16/2004 4:31:37 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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