Epilogue 1
They say that just before you die your entire life flashes before your eyes. I have always wondered whether it was true. As I hurtled downwards from the top of the roof I knew – they were right. The fall seemed to last a very long time, considering the building was only ten stories high. All the people I had met, all the things I had seen, all the heartbreaks I had had till now rushed in front of my eyes. But none of the pictures were blurred; all of them stood out quite clearly. It was like a History Channel Biography on my life, with between the scenes commentary on all the mistakes I had made, all the chances I lost. Maybe it was because my life had been so short, I don’t know, but I didn’t have to hurry through the last second of my life. But at the end of it all I was happy. After all, nothing can be worse than what I had been through. My only regret was that I couldn’t meet Annie for one last time. Annie, Annie – only if you knew how much you meant to me, then none of this would ever have happened…
Epilogue 2
TEENAGER JUMPS TO DEATH FROM CITY HIGHRISE
Ten teen suicides in last month alone: psychologists blame lifestyle and peer pressure
Times News Network
Kolkata: Shuvo Chaudhuri, a 19 year old studying in one the leading colleges in the city jumped to his death yesterday afternoon from the top of Rail Vihar, near Kasba Golpark. He was a first year student of Electrical Engineering in Jadavpur University. Around noon yesterday, residents of Rail Vihar saw Shuvo’s body hurtling down from the roof of one of the buildings of the complex. The residents carried his body to adjacent Ruby Hospital where the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.
Shuvo’s death was first assumed to be an accident but later the police announced it was a case of suicide as they had found a suicide note in his pocket. They ruled out any chance of foul play. Shuvo’s friends and classmates were distraught on hearing the news of his death. Most of them admitted to be surprised and shocked by the event, because none of them thought Shuvo had any reason to take his own life. Shuvo was a brilliant student and was at the top of his class. He was popular with all his classmates and was quite outgoing in nature.
Shuvo’s parents had both collapsed on being informed of their son’s death. His father, who had suffered a heart attack earlier this year, had to be admitted to Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences. His parents confirmed that Shuvo had left the house that morning to visit a friend who lived in Rail Vihar. However his friend claims that Shuvo never arrived at his house. Shuvo’s parents also said that their son had been suffering from a mild depression for a few weeks.
Eminent city psychologists……….
Chapter 1……
PS: I wanted the last line to be “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
