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> Carter took his own life four months after winning the prize. And that answered the question I've had ever since I first saw this picture. Truly sad, but I c
by ComputerGuru 2y ago
> Carter took his own life four months after winning the prize.
And that answered the question I've had ever since I first saw this picture. Truly sad, but I can't say I don't understand how Carter got there.
Imagine how he'd feel to know that we now have yet another famine happening all over again, this time with food a mere 20km away and hundreds of trucks laden with food just waiting desperately to be allowed to deliver their goods, blocked by both a government bent on extracting the highest possible price in blood and its citizenry that willingly throws itself in front of moving trucks to prevent the aid from reaching their human brothers and sisters.
To think that these all exist in the same universe.
- bawolff 2y agoGiven this is a photo of Sudan, i think the more striking thing to imagine would be the current famine in Sudan, given it is the same country as the photo was taken in, and we are basically repeating history right now. [I'm not saying there aren't other people who suffer in the world, just in terms of history repeating itself, i think the Sudan case is much more direct]
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- rob74 2y agoThe most striking is that the current Sudan famine goes largely unnoticed because of the more well-covered crises in Gaza and Ukraine.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoIt's easy to assume that he became so despondent that he committed suicide after seeing the horrors of what was happening in the sudan, but another possibility is that he was already suicidal which led him to even take such assignments.
- dclowd9901 2y agoTruly heartbreaking considering he apparently left his own young daughter behind from this choice. I agree that I understand how he got there, but I hope I never understand actually giving up.