Excerpts from a Suicide Note

Written just following the death of freshman D. Tao on campus, a rumored suicide but reported in the Herald as accidental.

This is a SUICIDE NOTE.  (Thought I'd make that clear so you don't write this off as "accidental".)

TO:

Andy, who was my Orgo tutor last year:  You were a great tutor who did you best--it wasn't your fault.

Prof. Zimmt,:  You are a good prof and it wasn't your fault.

The secretary who forgot to keep my Psych Services appointment, I wasn't going to get any better, and it wasn't your fault.

My suite mates, who didn't know what I was thinking most of the time and hardly saw me because we were all busy:  It wasn't your fault, any of you, no matter how well/not well we got along.

Mom and Dad, who wanted me to be a doctor, it wasn't your fault. 

Darin Tao, who made me think that it couldn't be all that hard to do.  I thought of it before but you beat me to it.  It wasn't your fault.

Thanks O. for being my fellow Orgo-sufferer... I hope you succeed.  I would have shot all the other pre-meds for you but I think one death is less of a sacrifice than 300.

Bye M. and I know you will succeed as well and you return to Jamaica tell Bethany I thought of her and hope she grows up to be stronger than me.

CCCNJ Youth Group, keep singing "Deep, Deep" and loud.... 

Please bury my memory with my snowboard which I never got to use...and I would like to donate my body to medical research so that I will at least have contributed in that way, the only way I know how, to medicine.