My Wife and I have planned to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary in Italy this year. Tickets and hotels have been booked and we are raring to live the dream of seeing Rome, a city whose history has enamored mankind for centuries. Some people say one life is not enough to see Rome, but since we don’t have a lifetime and need to earn and save up to go on another holiday, we decided to spend 8 days in Italy. 3 days in Rome, 3 days in Florence and 2 in Venice. Any tourist guide in the world would recommend these 3 places as “must see” on Italian Itinerary.
So sprits up and counting days, I open the morning news paper to find some wonderful news: “Woman jumps to death from Leaning Tower of Pisa”. You can now understand how frustrated one can be after reading a headline like this. For a second, I was wondering whether I should be thanking my stars that I dint get to see a horrendous incident during my visit or curse her stars for pushing her to death before my visit. Nevertheless, letting bygones be bygone I sit back and wonder why someone would jump from the leaning tower of Pisa? It is incomprehensible, but let’s try and understand from the perspective of a frustrated prospective tourist who has 4000 Euros at stake.
There could be several reasons why this lady committed suicide. Following are the findings from my analytical paralysis.
Ø On a more benevolent note, she could be a visitor who was unhappy that the tower was leaning way beyond what Miss Suicide could take and she could not see it tilt anymore, so decided to kill herself. Ridiculous isn’t it? Possible! I would have asked her to leave a note to people pleading them to bury her below the tower so that she can stop the tilt.
Ø She, probably; felt that leaning tower of Pisa was planning to kill her by falling on her. An extreme case of hypochondria. Silly? Possible! You never know.
Ø Or she could be a dissatisfied employee of the Tourism board. She decided to teach her bosses a lesson by ending her life at the tower so that the Tourism Euros are affected and all her colleagues would be depressed for not receiving salaries on time and commit suicide. Great thought. Credits to her for assuming that her suicide could spark off an Italian suicide revolution. I wish she was in the Nazi camp or was Hitler’s Girlfriend. He would have shot himself atleast a decade earlier than he actually did and we would have never had the chapter “World war II” in our history books.
Ø Or she felt that the tower needed some maintenance. She probably dint know how to speak Italian and thought she could communicate the message through her suicide. The tower went on maintenance after the last suicide in 2002. Miss Suicide would have been an absolute failure at “data sufficiency” and “logical reasoning” tests in GMAT or GRE. She has no idea how to link up events. Fact is, the tower did not go on maintenance because of the suicide.
Ø Or, last but not the least, she probably knew that I was planning my trip to Italy and Leaning tower Pisa was on my Itinerary. Now that makes me feel better because someone thinks that I am important enough to be prevented from visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa, else she would have jumped from Mole Antonelliana ( 167 mts high). But does this building have staircase to the top floor. Got to Google. For all you know Miss Suicide would have researched some buildings before she pinned on Tower of Pisa.
Nevertheless, it is an earnest appeal to all people planning to kill themselves at Pisa, Please do not do it during the months of June, July and August. We know you are no good and are a burden on the planet, we completely understand your emotions, but please allow the tourists from across the world to enjoy Italy and postpone your suicide plans until the winters.
So sprits up and counting days, I open the morning news paper to find some wonderful news: “Woman jumps to death from Leaning Tower of Pisa”. You can now understand how frustrated one can be after reading a headline like this. For a second, I was wondering whether I should be thanking my stars that I dint get to see a horrendous incident during my visit or curse her stars for pushing her to death before my visit. Nevertheless, letting bygones be bygone I sit back and wonder why someone would jump from the leaning tower of Pisa? It is incomprehensible, but let’s try and understand from the perspective of a frustrated prospective tourist who has 4000 Euros at stake.
There could be several reasons why this lady committed suicide. Following are the findings from my analytical paralysis.
Ø On a more benevolent note, she could be a visitor who was unhappy that the tower was leaning way beyond what Miss Suicide could take and she could not see it tilt anymore, so decided to kill herself. Ridiculous isn’t it? Possible! I would have asked her to leave a note to people pleading them to bury her below the tower so that she can stop the tilt.
Ø She, probably; felt that leaning tower of Pisa was planning to kill her by falling on her. An extreme case of hypochondria. Silly? Possible! You never know.
Ø Or she could be a dissatisfied employee of the Tourism board. She decided to teach her bosses a lesson by ending her life at the tower so that the Tourism Euros are affected and all her colleagues would be depressed for not receiving salaries on time and commit suicide. Great thought. Credits to her for assuming that her suicide could spark off an Italian suicide revolution. I wish she was in the Nazi camp or was Hitler’s Girlfriend. He would have shot himself atleast a decade earlier than he actually did and we would have never had the chapter “World war II” in our history books.
Ø Or she felt that the tower needed some maintenance. She probably dint know how to speak Italian and thought she could communicate the message through her suicide. The tower went on maintenance after the last suicide in 2002. Miss Suicide would have been an absolute failure at “data sufficiency” and “logical reasoning” tests in GMAT or GRE. She has no idea how to link up events. Fact is, the tower did not go on maintenance because of the suicide.
Ø Or, last but not the least, she probably knew that I was planning my trip to Italy and Leaning tower Pisa was on my Itinerary. Now that makes me feel better because someone thinks that I am important enough to be prevented from visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa, else she would have jumped from Mole Antonelliana ( 167 mts high). But does this building have staircase to the top floor. Got to Google. For all you know Miss Suicide would have researched some buildings before she pinned on Tower of Pisa.
Nevertheless, it is an earnest appeal to all people planning to kill themselves at Pisa, Please do not do it during the months of June, July and August. We know you are no good and are a burden on the planet, we completely understand your emotions, but please allow the tourists from across the world to enjoy Italy and postpone your suicide plans until the winters.
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