thanks for this article, doody.

and thanks everyone else for sharing your thoughts...

it IS very interesting and I want to add something that I was thinking about while I was reading the article.

While he pointed out the two factors, there is another factor that I have been thinking about.

Remember that cult where the leader was able to pursuade everyone to commit suicide?

SUPPOSEDLY, they did it to meet the aliens? (Am I correct?)

now, that's one aspect of suicide that have always been interesting to me. It sounded like these people were "happy" because they belonged to a "club"(But were they truly happy or just emotional prisoners) and yet, while they seem "sound" and "happy", and I recall a few of them were doctos or something. I wonder what was going through their minds when they all committed suicides together.

In the second reasoning of how hard it must be to make that decision.

I think about the world trade center bombing when some of them have decided to jump off instead of getting burned alive. Surely they weren't suicidal (or predisposed) but that was a way out instead of the other way.

So many questions, all interesting...but all deadly and leaves nothing but pain for the survivors...