A Tortuous Way to End a Life
"Drinking: Suicide for the faint of heart."
I watched a movie early this morning called Infamous. It's about Truman Capote's interviews with the murderers of the Clutter family, the basis of the book and movie, In Cold Blood.
Capote told killer Perry Smith about his childhood and the suicide of his mother, who took an overdose of pills. Smith said he lost his mother to suicide as well, but her death was from alcohol abuse.
"Drinking: Suicide for the faint of heart," Capote said softly.
How true! When we drink too much and too often in an attempt to kill some pain, we share a link with someone who commits suicide with pills, a gun, a slash to the wrists, or a leap from a bridge. It's all suicide.
But suicide by drinking -- that's the slow, painful way out for the faint of heart.
I watched a movie early this morning called Infamous. It's about Truman Capote's interviews with the murderers of the Clutter family, the basis of the book and movie, In Cold Blood.Capote told killer Perry Smith about his childhood and the suicide of his mother, who took an overdose of pills. Smith said he lost his mother to suicide as well, but her death was from alcohol abuse.
"Drinking: Suicide for the faint of heart," Capote said softly.
How true! When we drink too much and too often in an attempt to kill some pain, we share a link with someone who commits suicide with pills, a gun, a slash to the wrists, or a leap from a bridge. It's all suicide.
But suicide by drinking -- that's the slow, painful way out for the faint of heart.
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