*Sigh*
I saw a terrible thing the other day...something that I'm not sure I should even write about because it's upsetting and awful and just sad. I was driving home on 169 and the traffic all of a sudden slowed down to a crawl. There were a few cars stopped and a man directing traffic around something in the middle of the road. As I drove by I realized it wasn't something, it was someone. I have goosebumps just thinking about it. It was a man lying there, sprawled across the road. He was lying there, dead, with his brains all over the road. I drove over some. I called the police immediately and they promised to send someone right away. Maybe I should have stopped but I think I was too shocked to think straight. There was a semi stopped, and a car and a truck. There was no one standing by the man, just the guy directing the traffic. I have been trying to find out what happened and I finally got an answer today. They are calling it a suicide. The man (name not released yet, 35 from Richfield), crouched in the ditch next to the road until just the right time when he popped out and threw himself in front of the semi. That poor driver. His life will never be the same. The car in front of me was full of children. Their lives will never be the same after what they saw. How could life ever be so bad that you could do that to yourself...and others??? Suicide is selfish. Selfish and awful and sad. Please keep that man's family in your prayers...and the semi driver too.