And then one day, he disappeared, leaving his cell phone behind. He was later found, dead, with a gun beside him. Suicide.
Why?
Looking past all the obvious reasons why it doesn't make sense, we will probably never know why he did it. It's likely we'll never know what brought him to make a decision that he will never see the impact of. The easy way out of whatever the problem was in his life. No note has been found so far. There are no answers, and that only makes it more difficult.
Which brings me to my real point. Though I have nothing but sadness and regret for him in his death, the real pain is caused to the survivors. I cannot respect the decision of suicide. The concept is despicable. It results in nothing but bad, nothing at all. It is selfish. It shows blindness to the fact that the future has not yet been shaped. Some people seem to think they would be doing the world a favor by eliminating themselves. It takes an event like this to show how very wrong that idea is.
If you're someone that has ever thought about suicide, just stop. It's cliched, but suicide is not the answer to your problems. The future could hold anything for you. Let's face the unfortunate and blunt truth: your problems are probably common. That doesn't mean they're not bad, but simply that others have proven that things can turn around. You're not going to have it all, ever. The rich and famous man will always wonder if his friends are friends for him or for his money. Nobody has it perfect.
Your instant of pain when you pull the trigger is nothing to how your friends, family, and even people that don't know you will feel. Completely selfish. The family will never be the same again, all because you decided to give up on your life because something wasn't quite going your way. Your friends will think about it for the rest of their lives: could I have done something? Is it my fault? People you have never met will be impacted, trying to understand why someone did it. But a general theme is that they will be impacted negatively.
So let this tragedy be an example to you. There is nothing beneficial to suicide. You won't be doing anyone a favor, not even yourself. And this is not a bash on Bischof. Seriously, I know somebody is going to IM me and criticize me for "bashing" someone that died. It's not a bash. Learn to read between the lines of something and find out what it means. If you can't do that, don't read something (unless it has a picture for every page). Before you get mad at me and think I am inconsiderate, this is not saying anything negative about Corey himself. It is about how suicide is just something that is not a good or respectable decision. I could have written it about my cousin, who was in approximately the same situation. Corey Bischof is just an unfortunate example of something that is still a very alive concept.