There was recently a post on here about a principal who committed suicide following a false accusation, resulting in jail time and loosing his job.

I have conflicting feelings about this. Obviously he felt trapped and wanted to escape while also using his suicide to raise awareness of this situation to keep it from ever happening again.

I know this is rater obvious, but suicide is not the solution to issues like this. Did he raise awareness? Probably. He also jumped in a very public place and apparently someone was 10 feet from where he landed so someone is now traumatized. I bet the wife and school now feel a bit guilty. Still, that wasn't worth loosing someone who could have actively helped to keep this from ever happening to anyone ever again. He could have done more to help while alive than he can in his death, and a lot of people are just going to be angry at him offing himself so publicly, and those people won't even consider why he did what he did.

And that's just from looking at this practically as a political tactic, more importantly, there are undoubtedly numerous people who just lost a friend or a loved one. Those two girls certainly didn't deserve this. I don't know the details of how bad his situation was, but I feel confident that it wasn't worse than the outcome that we now have.

Obviously we can't undo his decision, but how do we in the MRM proceed? He clearly intended for us to use his suicide to try to change things, to keep that from happening again. I don't think it would be grossly opportunistic of us to do just that. It could even be argued that we have a duty to not drop the ball and let his suicide go to waste. But at the same time, I don't want to encourage anyone else to do what he did. So to anyone reading this, you're more capable of helping the MRM alive than you are dead. At this point, we can only hope to make up some of the loss, we'll never exceed it.