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Originally Posted by pylon
Instead of zeroing in on the obviously hyperbolic part of my statement, why don't you address the rest of it? I see next to nobody giving two sh#ts about the other 40 some odd people who's lives will never be the same.
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I have sympathy for the passengers on the bus, the driver, the mother of the victim and the RCMP and first repsonders on the scene. They didn't ask for what happened in the same manner that Li didn't ask for schizophrenia. Everybodies lives including Li's have been changed forever.
Then we had RCMP officer Ken Barker who comitted suicide after years of struggling from PTSD from the incident.
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Shari and Barker’s sister, Wendy Walder, said he did get psychiatric help while with the RCMP and during his short retirement, but they both said the force has to do more to address the stigma attached to its members battling mental illness.
Walder said her brother’s treatment was coming along — and while he was still a dog handler, he was stationed at the airport and bus depots instead of responding to slayings — but last fall things began changing.
“With Vince Li getting in the paper about his walks, he started getting flashbacks,” she said.
“It was a very rapid decline in the last six months. He sent text messages like ‘I think I’m too broken to ever be fixed’ and he would also say ‘I wish I had cancer because then people would understand.’”
The two women rescued Barker from a suicide attempt in May, but no one got to him in time this past weekend.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2...beheading.html
Yes I sympathise with what Li is going through BUT that doesn't mean that myself or anyone else here doesn't feel for the other people involved.
It greatly saddens me the the incident happened in the first place. No mother should ever have to bury their son and the victims mother has the greatest burden to bear.