On Saturday, a man shot himself before the Memorial Church in front of a tour group, shocking everyone in sight. He was Mitchel L. Heisman, a thirty-five year-old scholar who lived in Somerville. His alma mater expressed their standardized condolences toward his death. Evelynn M. Hammonds, the dean of the university where he attended, quickly disclaimed responsibility for his death and for all similar incidents that might happen or had happened to their graduates and students.
He was a native of New York. At young age he demonstrated his academic ability with his intense interest in math and science. He managed to graduate with a BS in Psychology from Albany University. In unfortunate irony, he knew about the workings of the human mind but unfortunately couldn't fix his own. Apparently he didn't have a job and had to rely on his large inheritance from his father to support himself. His mother didn't know about the actual content of the book until after his suicide. She was just estatic that his son was working on a project that he himself was proud of because he had nothing else to be proud about, not knowing that it was an epic-length suicide note. The content of the suicide note was all about death, drawing heavy references to nihilism, religion, and history, which are some of typical topics that madmen ramble about. Despite the subject matter he did a lot of research and interviews with professors in order provide material for his nearly two thousand page exposition. His mother wanted his son's work to be published in order to satisfy her son's wish of getting attention that he wasn't able to get while he was still alive. At the very least he deserves praise for being an hero.
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