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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Gene, I like your book review, but, the fact remins that most people who kill 
themselves are not rich.  Merkle was beyond rich.  Whe you have those 
resources, I believe, you are just keeping score.  It is no longer about the 
resources, it is about the score. 

 The same applies to most who commit suicide, the numbers, for whatever 
reason, no longer work for them.  I have set with a family member, older than 
you are now, who begged me to retrieve his pistol, for the pain was so great. 
 The congestive heart failure that killed him in such a brutal fashion ( and 
which is now killing my grandfather), was his breaking point.  Merkles, 
eveidently, was such a big loss with no time to regain.  Whe a 16 year old 
kills themselves because of abuse, it is another breaking point.  Suicides 
occur for a lot of different reasons, and they do not occur primarily within 
the upper socio-economic strata........

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--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:


> > Mwerckle committing siuicde is no different that a
> coal miner in  
> > southern Arizona or in Appalacia killing himself over
> gambling debts  
> > or job loss.
> > Expect to see more suicides..........................
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> Bob, this is far different. The point is that more money
> does not  
> equate to more happiness. With all Merckle's money, he
> could not buy  
> happiness. Furthermore, his perception of happiness was
> having lots of  
> money. But worst, apparently his personal image was that
> only if he  
> kept making lots of money was he then worthy of life.
> 
> In my recent review of The Geography of Bliss: One
> Grump's Search for  
> the Happiest Places in the World, by Eric Weiner, I wrote:
> We learn that money wealth gives but a small edge. America
> is the  
> richest country the world has ever known, yet our self-help
>  
> bookshelves sag. As poet-laureate, Charles Simic, noted in
> a recent  
> interview: "It's an industry. It's really
> frightening. People need to  
> read a book on how to be happy? It's completely an
> American thing."
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