Causality Essay: Quietly Plotting

Quietly Plotting The normal ups and downs of life mean that everyone feels sad or has "the blues" from time to time. But if emptiness and despair have taken hold of a person’s life and won't go away, they may have depression. Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts. Depression affects the way a person eats and sleeps, feels about themselves, and the way they think of the things around them. On October 2, 2010, my cousin committed suicide due to this illness. Most of us can hardly imagine the suffering that precedes suicide and the pain left in its wake. Two months before his devastating suicide, his wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. The married couple never seemed to have any troubles with the newborn due to the fact that she was an incredibly cooperative child. The baby hardly ever cried and if she did, it was easy to indicate what was wrong. On the morning of his death, my cousin told his wife he was going to work out of the city, but assured her that he would consistently check up on her and their child. While he was still alive, he gave her a phone call as he did every other typical day. Hours after he committed suicide, his wife received a visit from two police officers on their front porch. The police officers indicated that their truck was found on fire a few miles away from their home with a body discovered inside, along with a note in the back trunk. The news struck everyone surprisingly and left each individual speechless.
We understand—up to a point—the mental states of those who kill themselves: the despair, depression, irritability, agitation, and sheer hopelessness. We have learned a great deal about the suicidal experience from the victims’ legacies—notes, diaries, psychological autopsies, and clinical interviews with people who have survived severe suicide attempts. In my cousin’s case, his immediate cause of death was the fire he caused to burn him alive. The fire was caused by the tanks of propane found in