Suicide should not be an option

Today was a long day as I did a lot of things. I started by going to the funeral home to look at the wounds of the person who committed suicide. It was devastating destruction. I think that is the worst thing I have seen in person in my life. Not something that is fun. I think that is someone is willing to kill themselves because life is so bad, they should instead just leave everything behind. Get on a plane and go to some far off place and totally start over. Leave everything behind. That is what they do when they kill themselves. So leaving everything behind would be no different if they just dropped their life and left to start new.

The difference would be that the short-term problems that the person is running away from would not turn into a long-term solution that is final (dying).

After that was done I went to the office to get some work started. I got a call from Whitcom about someone who died in Pine City. So I met Pete up there and did an investigation on the body. So that is two deaths in two days. And two bodies I examined in one day. Pretty usual.

After that was done I met with Steve to look at a couple mobile homes on the Albion road. I was looking at buying one when it looked like my house was going to be sold.

I went to the office and tried to get some work done when I was finished looking at the mobile homes. Around five I had to get ready to go to the fire department. There was ropes training tonight and I was going to participate in it.

We met up at the deuce first. Then Reed and I went to station one for a meeting then off to the Grime Way Steam Plant. I worked with a group that was about thirty feet off the floor getting someone down. It took a long time to get everything set up and get the person down. When we finally did it, I went to the other group and watched them. They were doing a confined space drill. Once they were done I helped to clean everything up.

We were doing the post meeting when a delta call came out. Reed and I jumped in rescue and went in route. We got on scene first, beating the ambulance by about ten seconds. I helped to get the patient into the ambulance. We were on scene for about one minute.

After that call Reed and I hit Cougar Country for some dinner and went back to the station to eat it. It was about negative two degrees outside. Very cold. It was so cold the engine pumps froze on all the fire engines. So we worked on getting them thawed so we could fight a fire if one happened. They took another hour or so. When it was all said and done I had been working for six hours.

After I got back to the office I wanted to get some work done, but I was surfing the net instead. I did that until a call came out. Reed did not show up so we did not go enroute, but the ambulance got the person and went in route to the hospital so fast I don’t know if we would have made it to the scene or not.

I did finally start to work on some stuff. I got two bugs knocked out by six o’clock in the morning when I finally went to sleep.