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A teacher laid off from his job in Kampala, Uganda, doesn’t know what to do with his life if he can’t teach. He went into a police station with his two young children and begged for the police to kill him. “Can’t you just get a gun and shoot me with one bullet so that my problems are settled in this world?” asked Hamidou Namoyo. Police only had one thing to say to the man. They told him he was in the wrong department and had to leave. (Reuters) ...“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.” —Václav Havel, Czech playwright, politician.