Word of the Day for Friday July 25, 2003
surcease \SUR-sees; sur-SEES\, noun:
Cessation; stop; end.

A girl committed suicide the day before... I got to know about it yesterday. She wasn't anyone close to me but she was a friend's friend. I'd seen her in corridors, I'd waved to her before. The newspapers aren't reporting it just like they're covering up the suicide of another VJC girl who died just recently... but students have ways of knowing these things. I know we've talked about suicide a lot. Some of us have seriously contemplated it. But knowing someone who actually went ahead and did it...

I never spoke to her for more than ten minutes in my life but still. She was one of the cheerfullest-looking people I'd ever seen.

I hope she's happy where she is, but that is an awfully lame conclusion.

Death isn't any form of conclusion in itself.