Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I was talking to the wife about this.
She has a very good friend who is suffering horrendously from depression. To say she is living is stretching the definition a bit. She is on so many pills and she OD 's on them so many times that the doctor won't give her any more than three days at a time so she has to walk down to the doctors to see them. Her arms and legs are covered in cuts where she has self harmed.
She was a lovely woman who had a tragedy in her life that must have flicked a switch in her brain and now she is a shell of the person she was.
She talks about suicide in a matter of fact way and we are sure she has tried on numerous occasions. On one visit, my wife was talking to her about her feelings at her lowest and sh said that she doesn't know anyone or anything and is totally singleminded in her actions. She says when asked about the family she would leave behind, she say " they will be ok without me here" which is a terrible thing to think.
We don't know what went through the mind of this guy, but if she is anything to go by, he would not have had the first thought about anyone on that plane when his depression stepped in as his single minded action was to kill himself and he was in the perfect position to do this.
It is terribly sad all round.
Surely if you suffer from depression and have suicidal thoughts then why on your good days would you not be honest with yourself and retire from a career where you could be putting innocent lives in danger?