Martin Manley
As you may have heard, a gentleman named Martin Manley kicked his own bucket the other day. He set up a website to document the act. Some will find the site interesting. Others wonder where the thought process would go from there.
Ironic comments are floating around. Mr. Manley’s former employer, the Kansas City Star, said “Star policy is not to write about suicides, except when they occur in public areas, as Manley’s did.” Apparently, Mr. Manley followed through on his plan. Another site, knowyourmeme, reports “The domain name MartinManleyLifeAndDeath.com was registered on May 22nd, 2013, but the website did not go live until August 15th, 2013.”
Mr. Manley prepaid for web hosting for the sui-site. “UPDATE, Saturday, Aug. 17, 11:55 a.m.: On Friday night, Yahoo took down Martin Manley’s website. A spokesperson told me: “After careful review, our team determined that this site violated our Terms of Service and we took it down.” Manley’s site lives on, for the time being, on various mirror websites not hosted by Yahoo.”
The decision to end a life on the 60th birthday is troubling to someone PG, who is 59 years old. Like most people who get to that age, there have been a couple of close calls with the grim reaper. Numerous friends, relatives, enemies, and acquaintances have checked out. PG does not always have the best mental health, and is not especially happy some days. However, there are still good days mixed in with the bad. Once you make that choice, you don’t get a second chance. There is also the concept that G-d gets to choose when to end a life. You are usually better off letting her make the call.
Chamblee54 
Creepy sh*t ! His joke was masterful, having “gold diggers” dig for a non-treasure….too funny, but I agree that it is no man’s (or woman’s) place to take something G-d is not yet ready to receive.
That concept applies to capital punishment, abortion, and war as well. It is funny how people rationalize about those three issues. I should add that I am not a purist. I believe in self defense, and punishment for ghastly crimes. The main problem with the death penalty is uneven application. We would be better off without it. The problem is, when you build the facilities for these three forms of life taking, you make the use inevitable. When you have abortion clinics, they are going to be used. If you have an army, you will look for ways to use it. From the sound of your story, it seems like not all casualties of military service take place on the battlefield.
“Build it and they will come” rings true. Without criminals there would be no prison. Without abortion clinics, there’d surely be more wire hangers. Without grocery stores, there’d be more farming. Without cars, no gas.
And yes, I think I was a casualty of the military, but happiness will prevail, please know this.
Why am I thinking about the chicken and the egg?
Ha! Either it is breakfast and you’d like sunny-side ups, or its din-din time and KFC is calling….