 Their
Cry for Help
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An
angle that most of the news media totally blew past is the possibility
that the Gaters were screaming for help. Help, you say? It may not seem
like it, but, buried in the depths of the Heaven's
Gate web site (reading between the
URLs), one gets a sense that there's a suicidal mentality at work. I've
asked myself the question of whether or not I would've recognized what
the Gaters were up to before the incident. I have come to the conclusion
that "yes, I would've". (See their "Our
Positions Against Suicide" page) where
on the surface they make the claim that suicide is their "last resort".
However, just the presence of a "Suicide" page alone is a screaming SOS.
Think in terms of the suicidal individual. Such a person is likely to leave hidden warning signs all over the place as to tis true intent, in secret hopes someone will come along and save tim from tis actions. I assert that the Heaven's Gate web site is such a "warning sign", an indicator, a call for help. Their Suicide page mentioned above comes closest to making an open statement of their intentions without openly stating it. Of course, their web site being only one in the Babylonian sea of web sites, the chances that someone capable enough to be able to talk sense to the Gaters taking their site seriously enough to view even more than one page, is remote at best. It is not surprising that their cry went unheard and unrecognized. It is my guess that this lack of response from the Internet only added to their dismay and reinforced their mental states to prepare them for committing the actual suicide, must as what would happen in the mind of a suicidal individual. No one cares. No one responds (in the right way) to the giving away of personal possessions, leaving oneself unkempt, etc. If this is the case, then the tragedy is only compounded by the fact that no one saw the cry in time. |
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