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A Desperate Measure

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November 16, 2006
Elizabeth Oliver Utne.com 
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In a thoughtful essay for Pitchfork, Nitsuh Abebe parses such sentiments, arguing that they miss the greater point: that Ritscher's suicide is 'a piece of very shocking evidence that some of the people around us feel very hurt and marginalized.' Regardless of what one makes of Ritscher's death, there is no contesting the tragedy of it. 'Interpretation of the act might be up in the air,' Abebe notes, 'but the one thing just about everyone agrees on is the wish that he hadn't done it.'

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