defenestration

When I was at a boarding school, there was a boy who couldn't take it anymore. On a chilly night when there was four feet of snow on the ground, he opened the window and jumped out. The boy survived that day because the snow of course acted as a cushion for the impact. It was months ago that I learned that he had taken his own life. He had succeeded on a sunny day when there was not a crumb on the asphalt.

There was a bit of sadness when I heard this news and it makes want to make sure all boarding schools around the country are locking their windows so that a possible jump will fail miserably.

Let's prevent defenstration in this country. It's no way to leap out of this world; it is too painful.