Chris Muir's Day By Day



Tuesday, June 02, 2009

"No Parent Should Have To Bury Their Child"

King Théoden said that in the movie version of Tolkien's The Two Towers. And a distraught couple in UK took that sentiment very much to heart, apparently; when their son died, they placed his body into a backpack and drove to Beachy Head, a cliff notorious for suicides, and became suicides themselves, jumping to their deaths with their son's body, probably hand in hand.

Here's a picture of Beachy Head, a truly lovely place with a tragic reputation:

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