On The Edge

This was one of the views from Beachy Head, and one of the memorials to the lives lost here. I flippantly said to my friend Don that suicide was the easy way out. He pointed out the contrary: "That water's awful hard when you hit it."

He added that no one chooses to commit suicide. It is something that is "done to them" by others or their environment. As in much else, Don had it right. And I suppose the implication is that "we" did it to them.

Maybe that is why the crosses on Beachy Head are both poignant and accusative. They mark where people got pushed over the edge by the rest of us.

Here are two more slightly gloomy pictures from the Head, followed by another one from the same spot which has more life and light: