I find three curious things about an article appearing in Wednesday's Kompas concerning a murder and two suicides, or rather one suicide and one attempted suicide.
The first curious thing is that the article appeared at all. Suicides happen every day back home in America and by-and-large are not reported in major newspapers. In fact, in the United States there were nearly 45,000 suicides in 2016. Were all of them reported, we would run out of paper.
In the first reported incident, a man has killed his wife and then himself. Or so it is suspected, there having been no actual witnesses to the event. The couple was often arguing, neighbors told the police, and the final incident was thought to be a result of "cekcok". Bickering. The corpse of the woman was found naked on the bed, while the man had hung himself. Kompas provides the detail--and this is the second curious thing--that the 'rope' with which the man hung himself had been fashioned from a garment, and the garment was of pink material, with a flowered pattern. It's like they decided to insert a sudden fashion note for some reason.
The story then continues on to describe an attempted suicide in another part of Jakarta, which is the third curious thing about the article. One kind of waits as he reads for the link to be provided, but it never is. Because there is no link. It was not known in this second case what had caused the young man to attempt suicide by drinking a bottle of porcelain cleaner and two packets of anti-mosquito lotion. The man was discovered by friends and success in the attempt was averted, although the ingestions landed the man in the hospital, unable as of the present time to speak. Perhaps when he can, he will tell us what his own story has to do with the preceding murder-suicide event.
The first curious thing is that the article appeared at all. Suicides happen every day back home in America and by-and-large are not reported in major newspapers. In fact, in the United States there were nearly 45,000 suicides in 2016. Were all of them reported, we would run out of paper.
In the first reported incident, a man has killed his wife and then himself. Or so it is suspected, there having been no actual witnesses to the event. The couple was often arguing, neighbors told the police, and the final incident was thought to be a result of "cekcok". Bickering. The corpse of the woman was found naked on the bed, while the man had hung himself. Kompas provides the detail--and this is the second curious thing--that the 'rope' with which the man hung himself had been fashioned from a garment, and the garment was of pink material, with a flowered pattern. It's like they decided to insert a sudden fashion note for some reason.
The story then continues on to describe an attempted suicide in another part of Jakarta, which is the third curious thing about the article. One kind of waits as he reads for the link to be provided, but it never is. Because there is no link. It was not known in this second case what had caused the young man to attempt suicide by drinking a bottle of porcelain cleaner and two packets of anti-mosquito lotion. The man was discovered by friends and success in the attempt was averted, although the ingestions landed the man in the hospital, unable as of the present time to speak. Perhaps when he can, he will tell us what his own story has to do with the preceding murder-suicide event.
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