This is a very strange discovery. Anyone hear about Martin Manley? Wasn’t too well-known, sportscaster writer guy. Well he created this huge website about his life and why he eventually chose suicide that became active the day he died. It’s so interesting and a little eerie. If you’re interested…
http:// martinmanley.org /january_1_20 12.html   (n o  s p a c e s)
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Nice find
analytic dawg
I read it….or some of it….He seems to have taken much time to think about his death. It is weird but at least there is a trace of him somewhere on this earth….I prefer not to leave anything of me behind
Thanks Dawg.
(thankful Kitty) <— I love your trademark btw, they're usually so spot on
Yeah I read some of it too but loooorrrd was it exhausting after a while. You can't argue he wasn't thorough, that's for sure. Definitely sounded like an eccentric.
Well, he clearly had the foundation of faith which gave him some level of internal conflict to a degree. so there had to be some motivation to rationalize and justify his choice to those who might not understand. But i love how straight forward, rational and analytical he was – I think for him it was more an issue to make it infinitely clear his intent and why so others would be at peace with his choice and recognize that he was at peace and that there wasn’t something hidden that those around him didn’t “see” to act on or extend an offer of help.
Similarly, i wouldn’t want anyone to think that “if only they would have asked a question or extended a hand” to me. I have a very similar mindset to this guy. I’ve formulated a similar plan to execute (without the big website or grandiose explanations) … just simply – my time is my time and i’m tired therefore i’m done … but i don’t have the faith to contend with … it simply ends when it ends – game over
@Kitty – i hope my TM signatures are spot on – i create the context for them to be so … when they start getting wonky you’ll know i’m losing my mind 😛
bus stop dawg
Yeah he definitely cleared it all up. I kept seeing theme thought of failure at normalcy as a family and therefore he never knew how to be married. But who knows, maybe he would have been this way no matter what family he came from.
Agreed, I’m going to make it extremely clear in my letter or whatever that no one could have done anything, it was up to me, and that I’m thankful for everything everyone did try.
Oh no Dawg!!!! Don’t miss your bus.
“The apt analogy is that I’ve run the race. I already got to the finish line. I didn’t croak on the way. I didn’t get embarrassed. I didn’t break a leg. I sprinted most of the time and sometimes I slowed to a walk to catch my breath. But, I could see the finish line and I liked it!! The last thing on Earth I was going to do when I got there was… keep going. I completed the race because I went over every hurdle that was in my way. Sometimes I fell. But, I got back up and ran that much harder. Perhaps your finish line is a little farther off in the distance than mine. I don’t know. I only know I reached mine and when I got there the only thing I wanted to do was rest. And, so I shall.”
I think that summed it all up.