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Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.
We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.
I believe in God and immortality.
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.
But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.