We, In Our Province, Are Beginning To

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.

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.

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.

My Death Will Be Caused By Morphine, Which I Have Deliberately Taken With Suicidal Intent.