When many people take their own lives, it is often because they can no longer bear overwhelming suffering. When I put myself in the bare feet of those hostages, who have been subjected to severe abuse, deprivation and humiliation, I can understand why someone in that situation might see ███████████████████ to continuing to endure such treatment.

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ There is a real possibility they would never be released and that the mistreatment could worsen.

I strongly feel this man may have seized an opportunity to resist, and that is when he was killed. I think if you spoke to him now, he might say ██████████████████████████████████████████ in the hands of Hamas captors, and that is a feeling others share.

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████and they would not have wanted to lose one of their captives.

His 17 children, some of them, if faced with a patient who could not recover, might choose to discontinue life-sustaining treatment. Many hope they will be reunited with him in the spirit world, and he may be better off.

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