I’m continually amazed at the lengths some people will go to end their own lives.

Summoning the will to throw your body off a bridge takes equal parts steel resolve and dire hopelessness. Same with slitting one’s wrists or chugging arsenic.
 
I can’t pretend to know the depths of despair that motivate suicide, but I do know that it’s rarely a spontaneous decision to end one’s own life.
 
It takes planning. Effort. Determination. Which is why I’m both aghast and impressed at the life-ending idea pursed by Tracy Province, a convict on the run after a prison break in Arizona.
 
Province’s novel idea was to hike into Yellowstone National Park, overdose on heroin, and let bears eat him. For reasons as unknowable as his suicide plan, Province decided not to go through with death-by-bear and instead opted to hitchhike to Indiana to see relatives. It was on this diversion that he was apprehended by police in rural Wyoming.