Dying together is better than living apart!

Today's Times of India, Bangalore edition, had the following article:

Lovers end life in Mysore hotel

Mysore: Two lovers on Sunday night allegedly committed suicide, by consuming alcohol mixed with poison, at a hotel in Yadavagiri.

The deceased are P N Rajshekar(26), a software engineer, and Vasavi(24), a trainee at Infosys Technologies. Rajshkar hails from Hyderabad and Vasavi from Visakhapatnam. They both worked in Mysore.

According to police, the duo had checked into the hotel on Sunday evening.

The incident came to light when a room service boy received no response from the room on Monday morning. When the door was forced opened, the two were found dead.

Police traced an empty bottle of gin and a phial of pesticide. A suicide note left by the couple stated that they were happy to die together and it was inevitable. The note urged not to tear their photograph that was placed in the room. Fingerprint experts were pressed into service.

What a waste of young lives! Clearly, they were both educated, with good careers, and the prospect of a great future together. It's all gone to waste now.

I bet this had something to do with the parents of one or both the dead people. I can never understand why/how educated young people feel obligated to their families to the point of making themselves miserable and even ending their lives, instead of antagonizing their families.

Their families and elders should feel ashamed of themselves for driving the youngsters to such desperate measures.

It is so sad. Yet, in another way, I feel happy for the dead couple. At least they were in it together and died together. I can just imagine the kind of intense bond they must have had, the immense sorrow they must have shared when they couldn't make things work, and the peace they must have felt as they finally decided and accepted the end.

I think having total compatibility and agreement with our lover, being together, even if it is in death, is much better than living with differences and mutual pain between us. Dying together, in total bonding, is better than living apart in separation.