A horrible way to start the day

Usually, I am big fan of irreverent humor. However, I was disturbed by the tone of this post: "A man jumping in front of a Red Line train at Davis Square ruins Jeff's day off". Reading Jeff's moving account of his imaginative interpretation of the dead man's despair and his own shock at witnessing such annihilation, it is absolutely clear that Jeff was trying to convey far more than having a bad day.

Witnessing violence of such magnitude is a shock to one's entire self, physical, emotional, and spiritual. And to put yourself in the physical, emotional, and spiritual shoes of the man who felt such an extreme need to die, as Jeff has, in act of amazing compassion and courage.

Let us never take someone else's deep despair and violent death - and another's compassionate & grieving response - as trivially as you have in this post.