Thursday, January 24, 2008

The pathos of a lonely suicide

http://www.mexiadailynews.com/local/local_story_024102932.html

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Remember the reports of a body’s having been discovered in Christmas Creek on New Year’s Eve?

He has been identified as Angelo Pires Araujo, 26, whose last known address was in Killeen.

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Detectives had to work long hours to discover even the basic facts of his name and that he had a brief military service. A man named after the Angels commits suicide on New Years Eve by shooting himself in Christmas Creek. What a simple and sad statement of pathos.