The Instant Golfer

Umfaan

The inventor, former European Tour member, Wayne Westner shot and killed himself on Wednesday after allegedly holding his wife hostage.
Sad anyone sees this as a solution for life's troubles.

letthebigdogshunt

He must of had a lot of physical and mental problems. That is not something a sane healthy person does.

glebert

I lost a friend from college a week or so ago, and have been seeing an increase in posts about suicides and suicide awareness on Facebook. It seems like this is a particularly rough time for those who struggle with depression or other mental health problems.

mcavoy

That's sad.

Release

We don't know the inside story behind the tragedy and we'll probably never know.
The sad fact is, so many had chosen to end the issues in life by taking their own life and sometimes many more life around them.
Are we so pampered that we could not solve issues in life any more ? Look, we are still 100 times better in our worst state than most of the human beings a century ago.

As for his video, why would he use a touring pro to show this invention ? I didn't get it. He could have use a novice whom had never hold a golf club for the demo, more convincing that way.

glebert

Release Are we so pampered that we could not solve issues in life any more ? Look, we are still 100 times better in our worst state than most of the human beings a century ago.

The suicide rate has actually been fairly constant (10-15 per hundred thousand) in the US for the past 50+ years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States I think we are much more aware of it now with social media. The friend of mine who died was not someone I was especially close with, and without social media I probably might not have heard about what happened for years. At least in my circle of friends it seems like there is a concerted effort to reduce the stigma of depression and other mental health issues and try to lend support to those that are in crisis. I think these are all good things.

Release

glebert

Certainly !

Awareness is one plus or one minus to modern life depending on how one stands at the time.
Sometimes it's better to be ignorant .

Family and friends are so important regardless of one's mental state. In good times and especially in bad times.
To share and to comfort each other. I feel sorry for those whom chose to end their own life. The issues within life itself comes with the package. Good or bad, we should learn to face it and deal with it.
I still could not make up my mind regarding "the right to die". Not sure if I'd approved it unless it was to lessen the burden of family members. Pain and dying although is the last chapter to open up in life, are part of the package.

mainuh

Many years ago I had a friend who directed/produced a television show for the state affiliate for SC/ETV. He had a co-producer.
They worked their butts off on it with the hopes that it would be picked up nationally.
They had their hopes raised, dashed, raised, dashed.

One fateful day iames received a phone call You've hit the big time, pack your bags.

James called his partner...no answer at home, phone....?
Emergency found his partner, details too grisly - LST- note said he had lost hope of syndication.
If he had only waited one, just one day.

Who if any of us knows what goes through another person's mind regardless of whether they are a spouse, child, family, friend.

Sad, so very sad.

rob

Release

Please give yourself one more chance.