Self-death is an unthinkable but all too real version of death. Leslie van Rooi was recently confronted with the reality of it, when a former Stellenbosch University student died by suicide. He reflects on how we struggle to understand and confront it.
Death always comes as a shock. Even if you expect the inevitable, it still comes like a thief in the night. But the deathliness of death is perhaps even more visible when someone younger passes away.