A good friend of mine committed suicide a year and a half ago. I and others had always thought of him as the most stable of persons, the one who everyone got rational and reasonable advice from. I spoke to him 3 weeks before he committed suicide - he was laughing and telling stories, joking, mentioned about getting together for lunch some time soon, talked about his new job, his daughter's upcoming wedding. Everything seemed normal. I was shocked when I heard the news. He was very good at keeping his real feelings to himself. In public, he put on a face of normality and hid the pain and depression that he felt, and had felt for some time. I still feel like I should have known how he was really feeling, but even his wife never anticipated his actions. We don't know if it was one moment of impulse when the pain got too much or if it was a long-term plan.
The reality is that you don't really know what's going on inside someone's head, especially someone who may potentially commit suicide. They can hide their feelings and act like everything is normal. I tend to ignore such comments as "it was out of character" or they seemed happy before. Maybe she was killed and maybe not, but this particular observation is irrelevant when it comes to someone who has committed suicide. Their true state of mind isn't always obvious.
Yes. I personally know, day to day how much an illness in the mind, can affect someone, one in four of us will encounter someone with a mental illness each year. I also knew people personally who committed suicide. I am not an expert, but have experience in dealing with people will illnesses of the mind,for over thirty years, some here know how passionate I am about it when some posts use inappropriate words to discribe people.
Whilst a few people do not show signs, it's not one size fits all, as you indicate in your post, and quite often there are many observations, behaviour and clues, yes the ones who say they may do it, may not, and the quiet ones need to be supported.
Back to this tragedy, the facts are, as I understand it, was there were no signs whatsoever , totally out of character, in fact very happy at that time, no clues at all. Yes it could happen, but unlikely. Clearly the parents , ( who would be best placed to know) have ruled that out, yes parents sometimes, may not know everything, but they would look into any possible cause for closure.
I am sure a PI would look into it as well. And report if there were a single clue on it.
An MP lending their name and support to e investigation wouldn't do so, without being happy with the facts as presented, and would give to rule out, other possibilities, otherwise would look rather stupid if another explanation came up.
Fantasy,
Thanks for posting this, I had not heard a thing about this coming up again. My niece was a youth councilor on the Wonder at the time of the incident, she knew and worked with Becca. I called her after reading this to ask if she had been contacted by a private investigator at any time after her contract particularly recently given the news stories, she had not. If they release any more info in the UK please update so we can get the story as well.
Glad this thread / update, helped inform you of this update. There will be a regional news report in Manchester on Monday in the UK, we may know more from that. Now I am in London, so it's not shown here, but we can watch post the broadcast on BBC IPlayer, it may prompt newspapers to cover it after that.
