How very weak the very strong are..

Been reading quite a bit in the press about this suicide of a yesteryears model. Rightly or wrongly, the press feasts on such events. Whatever may be the reason and whoever may have been responsible, what intrigues is that someone who has braved the more vulnerable times of life - to me the entire twenties - chooses to call it quits. Have personally and directly seen my dear friend reducing himself to ashes with his wife in frustration - but that was many years ago. Nothing has changed in life. Except for a few sea-links and highways, a few hundred malls and a hundred odd more ways of getting distracted in the name of entertainment, nothing has changed. Man is as confused and fickle as he was a quarter century ago. Am certainly not a fatalist but am disturbed by such events.