Good Morning Midnight by Chip Brown
Good Morning Midnight is the story of Guy Waterman and his choice to commit suicide by sleeping out overnight on a mountain during the winter. There’s quite a long chapter about Guy’s son, Johnny, probably because it makes a better story. What can you say about Guy’s death except that he planned it for a while and then did it.
Is depression really the only reason people commit suicide? I have a hard time believing a person can maintain that level of depression for more than a year. I’m more inclined to call it determination. It does seem unfair to his loved ones, but his wife had plenty of time to separate herself in some other way if it seemed preferable.
It was interesting to read about their off-grid home in the woods. Sometimes I think I’d enjoy a simple life like that but then I realize that I’d have to have the internet.