Henry Hamilton, Key West resident distraught over election results, kills himself

[davidthegnome]

21. It's a damn shame

No matter what political party we're from or how we feel of the man's political views... it is a tragedy whenever someone takes their own life in such a way. For such a reason, too... how could anyone really hate or fear Obama that much? I may not have liked Romney, but I could have survived if he had become President.

Some of the comments here... they're really making me blink. One of the reasons I'm a democrat is that I believe in compassion - in empathy, I believe in helping others when we can. I'm not terribly fond of most conservatives or conservative ideals in general... but this is a human life (and death) that we're talking about. Who might this man have become? Political points of view are not written in stone, many have changed over the years from one party to another. What a damn terrible waste.

Perhaps it's necessary to have been down that road before, or to be close to someone who has... to have empathy in a situation like this. Well, I admit without shame that I have been, in crisis centers, even in the hospital for wanting to do what this man did - for trying and failing when I was younger and believed everything was hopeless.

I may be a democrat - but it is at least in part because I believe in helping people like him, in caring for them, in showing them that not everything is hopeless. It could have been me, in years past... it could have easily been me. No, I won't sneer, or smirk, or laugh. I am sorry for this man and his family and his friends... I wish he could have found another way, that he could have found help before it was too late. May he rest in peace.

Seriously... some of the comments here make me wonder....

Being republican and/or holding strong conservative political views does not make someone a monster. They are still people, like you or I, who laugh and cry and bleed and love. This lack of empathy... this lack of any sympathy troubles me deeply. Maybe I'm on the wrong forum, if this is really how many people feel about such a tragedy.