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SUICIDE

(At right, Wanda attending Pasta with the Pastors event, August 2019;

photo by David Johansen)

Column #27 - Part 1 - The Seaside Suicide  (5/1/2015)
IF MATTHEW BACHELDER, 30, could comment about his successful attempt to commit suicide, what would he say? Blowing part of his brain away in Seaside at approximately 7:15 p.m., Tues., April. 7, had left him alive but unable to say anything. Although transported to a trauma center and placed on life support pending harvest of his organs, Matthew died Thurs., April 9. I was one of the last people who talked to him in the duplex where I live and he, a guest, was cat-sitting my vacationing neighbor’s pet.  (CLICK TO CONTINUE READING...)
Column #28 - Suicide Raises Spiritual Questions   (5/8/2015)
MY APOLOGY! The illustration at the end of Part 1 (online version originally published on Cedar Street Times) (Homeless in Paradise website PDF version shows a reverse image of the house) did not show the wall of the house mentioned in the column. A file photo was substituted at press time since permission to reprint the photo by Nic Coury of the online Monterey County Weekly had not been received. To refresh readers’ memories, the closing lines were:  (CLICK TO CONTINUE READING...)
Column #29 - The Seaside Suicide - Tribute Only After Death   (5/15/2015)
SUICIDE SURVIVORS’ initials are used to protect their privacy in this edition. They live in Seaside, but location is secondary to statistics as reported by Ana Ceballos in the Monterey Herald, Wed., April 23: seven people in Monterey County had taken their own lives in April, ranging from a 73-year-old Toro Park man to a 22-year-old CSUMB student. Six were during the first week of the month. (CLICK TO CONTINUE READING...)

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