"A man in Germany has committed suicide by hiding deep in a forest and starving himself to death, keeping a diary as his life ebbed away.
Police said that hunters had found the decaying corpse of the 58 year-old in an isolated hide high up among trees some sixty miles from his hometown of Hanover.
After deciding to kill himself, the man, known only as Hans Z, apparently set out on the wooded paths of the Solling forest on his bicycle, intent on losing himself far from human contact and potential rescue.
By his body was a chronicle of 24 days he spent in the tumbledown tree house before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage and his estrangement from his daughter.
His long and fruitless search for a job also appeared to be a factor in his decision to kill himself. His unemployment benefits had been stopped only a month before he ventured into the forest.
But his diary also described the physical impact as his self-imposed starvation began to kill him the "dryness of the skin" and the sensation of a "gradual shutdown of internal organs".
The last entry in the diary was written on December 13, almost two months ago. Police suspect he died on that day or shortly after.
Police described the scene of Hanz Z's death, with the body lying on a makeshift mattress, as "awful" but said it was a "clear suicide".
They said they had passed on the diary to the man's daughter, as he had requested in the notebook. It was apparently his last wish.
"This notebook is to be given to my daughter after my death," he wrote.
But local newspapers reported that his grown up daughter, Joana, displayed little emotion when told of her father's death."
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. - John Sladek
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. - John Sladek
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.Robert Frost
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Reality's litmus test
The deepest irony of the reality is that it is confirmed more by pain than by happiness or any other feelings.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." -E
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." -E
Friday, October 17, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 04, 2008
The 2-Groups hypothesis
In most situations there are broadly two groups of people. One that do something, and the other that talk about it. Ironically enough, it's always the talking group that seem to have the golden solution for all the problems involved.
The Existential Twist
My existence substantiates the realism of this reality. The reality does not substantiate my existence.
The wind of change under the unchanged sky
It will never be what it was not and is not. Things might seem to change from a smaller perspective; but the grander scheme has no changes. Everything that is; was and will be.
Friday, September 26, 2008
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom." -Einstein
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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