‘All-American Despair,’ Stephen Rodrick’s story on white-male suicide, struck a chord with readers, making it one of our most-read stories of the month. We received an outpour of …
, struck a chord with readers, making it one of our most-read stories of the month. We received an outpour of letters in response to the article. Read some of them below.
“Hope this is the right and working email. I just read your piece in full and wanted to reach out to say thank you. It must have been just a week ago at a bar with some friends from work when I went off onto a tangent about how the nation ignores what I perceive to be one of the saddest epidemics in a modern nation. I thought your piece did great justice to paying tribute to the sadness and heartbreak of the stories that all too often get forgotten.
For whatever it’s worth, I just wanted to offer my thanks and my sorry to you for writing such a taxing story and for taking on that burden.”“Suicide is condemned as a selfish, cowardly, and preventable act. I get that. But I also understand that this life can become, for whatever reasons, an endless and unbearable torment for some who simply want it to end. Who just want to dissipate into ether, free from this grand and wonderous and meaningless shit show.
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