[Gobbledock]

Poor bugger. I hope he now finds the peace he was seeking. R.I.P Paul.

I just hope that the MSM don't slander him and align his suicide with that fruitcake Andreas Lubitz. Many people commit suicide and they come from varying backgrounds, nationalities, socio economic situations and so forth. That doesn't exclude professional Pilots, legal professionals, high ranking Police and emergency services people, billionaires or rock stars.

Was Mr Whyte a risk to his passengers at any stage? I doubt it. He had personal problems like all of us do, yet we all go about our daily activities, perhaps depressed, but we don't take out a couple of hundred people in the course of duty. And neither did Paul. If the media think for a single moment that there are not people with depression driving their trains, flying their planes, repairing electrical circuits on their homes or driving a B Double on the open highway in the opposite direction towards them then they are living in cloud cuckoo land.

Paul's depression and subsequent suicide, albeit a sad event and my heart goes out to his family friends, does not mean he posed a danger or risk to the public. The guy rented a light aircraft, took to the skies doing what was the love of his life, flew offshore to a safe area and pulled the pin on his life. No different to driving a car into a tree on an isolated road at high speed, or torching an empty house that only you are occupying. Tragic? Absolutely. Does it mean you were a complete nutjob and may have been a liability to your employer? Hardly.

You won't see most suicides coming. The person keeps their pain to themselves or only exposes it to very few people. It is a scourge that is rampant and affecting families in plague proportions. Regardless of a persons views on whether suicide is simply a selfish act or is the last choice of a desperately sad person, I hope Paul's name isn't besmirched as a result of this thoroughly sad event.


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In gods speed.
Gobbles