60 yr old dude makes website about himself, then suicides

Stolen from reddit:

http://www.martinmanleylifeanddeath.com/home_page

wow...

*reading*

Planning your suicide around when your lease or insurance expires. This could be some kind of satire of how cold and uncaring the institutions in our lives are. Or it's just just some silly dude who offed himself.

This website sure is uplifting.

not sure if i can handle reading that....

tbh this is pretty dang interesting

It is.

the poor old fool, he really didn't understand anything did he? life is worth more then the achievements u will be remembered for. what about the little things? what about the feelings of the people who care for u? suicide is so selfish really and when it's not it is a disease brought on by the selfishness and state of the world we live in. i feel sad for him and i hope he's in a better place. this website is spookycreepy

with internet ghosts. i think i'll go write the script for holywood for this now..

So his reasons are:

- I don't want to get old

- I don't think I can be of value

- I think the future of the world is fucked

What a bold statement to kill yourself at exactly 60 and make a website to share your pessimism. It's sad to go in such a silly and contrived way.

are there pics? video? how do you make a whole site and not put the actual suicide up? failure even in death.

would be amazing if this were a very elaborate way to cover up a murder.

I would say poor guy but it seems like something he has REALLY thought and planned out, to make a website and send out letters to family and so on is really forward planning, not like the peeps that just jump off something high and not tell anyone about it,

Creepy website wonder how long it will stay up for.

  On 8/16/2013 at 10:48 PM, zaphod said:

would be amazing if this were a very elaborate way to cover up a murder.

*jots it down*

  On 8/16/2013 at 10:45 PM, Ego said:

So his reasons are:

- I don't want to get old

- I don't think I can be of value

- I think the future of the world is fucked

 

What a bold statement to kill yourself at exactly 60 and make a website to share your pessimism. It's sad to go in such a silly and contrived way.

yeah, plus he wanted to leave some money.... (i'm sure those people will be glad..)

and it's awkward how much politics is covered. gun control, debt,. ... conspiracy theories

Whatever the case, he wanted the world to know everything as I'm sure he felt like being some kind of example.

and the religion thing...he says he had an iq of 150 somethings but couldn't imagine there not being a god? well why not? a bit silly

Intelligence Quotient ratings aren't nearly as important as people tout them to be. Especially for existential matters like that one.

So sad, I'm speechless.

  On 8/16/2013 at 10:48 PM, zaphod said:

are there pics? video? how do you make a whole site and not put the actual suicide up? failure even in death.

Kinda hard to post pic's on your blog after you kill yourself innit? Especially outside, in the parking lot of the police station. I guess he could have gone all out, got a portable hotspot with laptop, portable battery backup, tripod's and 100 + cameras, line them up matrix style. Could fasten a trigger to ignite both the gun and the shutters of the camera at the same time and we have it all in 360 degree format to pour over our eyes in crystal clear HD.

i do find it interesting that this man dedicated a lot of time towards explaining his reasoning, and was unashamed to post it for posterity.

whether you agree or not, i would think you would at least commend the guy for thinking it out that thoroughly.

Shit I can only imagine the horrors of memory loss and sluggish physique. Hopefully I wont make it to be that age naturally.

It's not sad, he's just a cool old dude who always wanted to off himself.

Not trying to disrespect or anything, but read the site for a while, he wasn't in distress.

  On 8/16/2013 at 10:56 PM, SR4 said:

Intelligence Quotient ratings aren't nearly as important as people tout them to be. Especially for existential matters like that one.

*just started reading Emotional Intelligence this week, wonders if his previous comment shows that he has a very low EQ score atm*

So the website says there is gold buried in a park at some random coordinates in the woods?

The park then issued this statement

  Quote

“There is no treasure. This morning sparked quite the treasure hunt. Overland Park Police have spoken with the family of the victim and they indicated that the victim had purchased gold but had given it away. The alleged ‘buried treasure’ is a hoax. Please be mindful of this and that the Overland Park Arboretum does not allow digging.”

 

And im sure the park ranger wont be out with a headlamp and a spade tonight.

i dunno this just seems kind of pathetic to me

  On 8/16/2013 at 11:00 PM, luke viia said:

read the site for a while, he wasn't in distress.

oh' perfectly harppy. moonbeams with lollypops, shooting stars and watermelon smiles. i can almost feel his joy over the intergnats

most idm thread 2013

who really knows his 'feeling' over the computers, but one must admit, the whole concept points to a certain direction..

  On 8/16/2013 at 10:58 PM, SR4 said:

i do find it interesting that this man dedicated a lot of time towards explaining his reasoning, and was unashamed to post it for posterity.

 

whether you agree or not, i would think you would at least commend the guy for thinking it out that thoroughly.

 

 

Shit I can only imagine the horrors of memory loss and sluggish physique. Hopefully I wont make it to be that age naturally.

i dunno.

why not settle with a simple thank you letter for the people he left behind?

this feels like a lot of over-rationalising something which is, imo, more emotional than anything. and again, this combination of being rational and analytical about just about anything, which is what i get from this all, is at complete odds with his religious beliefs. sticking to belief in a god is so emotional, it feels out of character.

despite all this rationalising, i don't believe he actually knew his demons. especially seeing he was convinced he wasn't depressed. perhaps he didn't connect with that emotional aspect of it all?