The sportswriter who blogged his suicide

[BainsBane]

Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2013, 07:29 PM - Edit history (1)

I could only pull a bit of this article. It's not that long but it is formatted in short paragraphs.

Martin Manley hated waking up early, but on his 60th birthday he did -- or more likely, never went to sleep the night before.
At 5 a.m. he entered a police station parking lot in a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, walked to a spot beneath a tree on its far south end and pulled out his phone. . . .

Then, the blogger and former sports reporter for the Kansas City Star pulled out his Saturday Night Special, a .380 pistol, and shot himself in the head. . . .

"Let me ask you a question," Manley wrote on his website, which he divided into 34 categories and 44 subcategories. "After you die, you can be remembered by a few-line obituary for one day in a newspaper when you're too old to matter to anyone anyway ... OR you can be remembered for years by a site such as this. That was my choice and I chose the obvious." . . .

He said he just decided 60 was old enough. His most productive years were behind him, he feared the infirmity of old age and simply wanted to go out at a time and in a manner of his own choosing.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/tech/web/martin-manley-suicide-website/index.html?sr=fb082413sportswritersuicide130p

Despite being in good health and having financial means, Manley thought 60 years was too old. So did he kill himself do to ageism? He swore he wasn't depressed, but he did live alone and had no children. He must have thought he had nothing to live for.

[kelliekat44]

1. Nothing to live for? What did he die for? Very sad. nt

[BainsBane]

2. Yes, and strange he felt a need to blog about it.