content: Struck a chord with me too, seems like it does with a lot of people. May be impossoble to articulate it completely, but my initial thoughts are - it seems like a sad and senseless end for a gentle soul. He wasnt mad at the world, just got beaten down. I think it causes a lot of us to reflect, we can relate, and also to think, this shouldn't have happened and society failed this young man on some level, or in many places along the way society failed to help him. This was a seemingly decent dude, young, healthy, married but working a mundane job, he was not on medication as far as I know, didn't have a history of suicidal tendencies, didn't try to hurt anyone and seems like he probably felt no purpose, even though he was ostensibly being normal & contributing to society. It is scary, if you always thought, ill grow up get a job, get married, do all the normal stuff you're supppsed to do, and then ill be happy and fulfilled, and you end up feelig empty, it's bleak. So he flew a plane around, which was likely a childhood dream, maybe he felt he had no dreams anymore or the ones he used to have had become impossible, and he gave a nod to the child he no longer was, from the man he didn't want to become, as he went out on his own terms, something a lot of us can also relate to and respect. Whatever it is, the story has struck a chord with a lot of people, and in that sense he's been a martyr of sorts as reflecting and thinking will have positive outcomes. Maybe others in his situation can still be saved.