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Old 02-27-2009, 09:24 PM  
Janak
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Originally Posted by thatgirljudy View Post
I never did see that one before. That is so heartbreaking. Poor guy obviously saw a lot of devastation in his life and could not live with it.
True-ish. It wasn't his only problem. Kevin Carter's suicide note:

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."

The Ken in question is Ken_Oosterbroek, a friend and fellow South African journalist killed earlier that year (1994).
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