This is what it said: There’s nothing you could have done. It was my choice and mine alone. I wanted to die peacefully and with dignity. If you don’t understand that now, I hope someday you will. Please forgive me. I had no real point of comparison, but still, I thought it was a pretty lousy note, all things considered. I filed it all the same. It had been posted second class to ensure a sufficient delay in its arrival. He had posted another letter, marked URGENT, directly through the letterbox of the doctors’ surgery, informing his GP of his intentions and asking that an ambulance be sent to recover his body asap. He also requested that my mother be informed so that she could be the one to tell me. That seemed like the best way of doing things. My mother could break it to me gently when I got home from school, by which time the ambulance would have had at least seven hours to take him to the morgue. He’d planned it so there was zero chance of my being the one who discovered his corpse.
What do You think about The Universe Versus Alex Woods?
