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RhysI find nothing wrong with this topic at all. (not intended toward Chris) but wanting to be sensative or politically correct is admirable, but the most strong desire to be so can only offset human interest and curiosity into this subject to a very limited degree. Every person in the word is at least slightly interested in the topic of death. That is why we ALL slow down to look at traffic accidents, we ALL would rather own a baseball card of Willard Herschberger than Shanty Hogan, We ALL would rather read a rivoting artcile on Marty Bergan than a boring biography of common 19th century backup etc. Shows like CSI are popular for a reason, we have a natural human curiosity and slightly morbid fascination toward death because the process of taking your own life and what is beyond it are unknown and the unknown always intrigues us. I think it also has the opposite effect of "being disrespectful". I find myself very sympathetic for the problems these men had and am so thankful I live in a society where mental and physical illnesses can be treated so much easier.
I think starting a thread posting all sorts of Donnie Moore pictures would be slightly distasteful because there are thousands of people who knew him that might stumble on this forum. Posting pictures and retelling stories of men who were famous figures in America and died in interesting ways and did so over a half century ago is nothing more than an interresting topic for discussion.