suicide

following the death of football legend Gary Speed this morning I've been thinking a lot about suicide, what drives people to have so little hope that they feel ending their life is their only option, I've always hated suicide because of people I've lost to it but I have also contemplated it more than once, my problem today is that since speed's death was suicide a lot of people have been saying a lot of horrible things, I just want to take a moment to both express my anger at his actions but also do my best to justify them, sometimes people are going through severe emotional and psychological stress and trauma that isn't visible to others, although I hate the fact he killed himself I want people to realise that to do so he must have been a desperately troubled man