Parents Behaving Badly

Total Bastard John Hogan Kills Son in Suicide Jump

by admin on August 18th, 2006

Recently, I caused a stir on DadCentric when I maintained that people who commit suicide are selfish pricks. I stand by that contention. It’s perfectly possible to have compassion for someone who’s suffering to the point of self-immolation, but revile them for saddling their survivors with so much pain and grief.

At the time, I maintained that the only thing worse than offing yourself was taking your family with you. Now, I’m sorry I ever uttered such foolish words. Brit John Hogan is currently hospitalized in Greece after jumping from a hotel balcony with his 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter. His son died. The daughter survived. Sadly, so did Hogan, who claimed he was drunk and didn’t know what he was doing. (Apparently, drunkenness is the catch-all excuse for everything from killing your kids to hating the Jews.)

The reaction in Greece has been…well, let’s say, unforgiving. A crowd of people apparently surrounded Hogan stretcher after the jump to heap abuse on him. And the director of University General Hospital, Panayotis Spatharakis, was quoted as saying: "I feel that once he recovers and understands what he has done he should commit suicide." yeah…They’re hard-core in Greece like that. They’ll gladly fix you up…then leave you alone with a length of bedsheet so you can get it right the second time.

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