Pattaya probably leads the statistics for most suicides by tourists. Every week the Pattaya newspapers report about a fatal plunge from a condo balcony. No one ever calls for the landlords to place a sticker on the railing saying, "Falls from this height could be dangerous." because suicides are usually considered to be losers, however this theory was disproved by a super-model's death leap from a Manhattan apartment building.
Ruslana Korshunova was discovered as a 16 year-old. Vogue called her the next big thing. Her face adorned the covers of fabulous fashion magazines. The twenty year-old earned big money. Fame and fortune aren't everything. She took her life after watching GHOST with her ex-boyfriend. He left her at 5am. No one spoke to her again.
Family and friends are astounded by her death.
"She was on top of the world."
New York dailies the Post and News tried to paint her as desperate for love, but her emails are normal epistles for a girl wanting what all girls want.
"Love is the sun, desire - only flash. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life."
This doesn't sound like someone who wants to kill herself and I question this suicide as i do all those in Pattaya, because most suicides leave a note.
My Pattaya girlfriend, Mem, tried to kill herself when I ordered her to leave after she pawned the refrigerator to give money to her 'brother'. She slashed her arms with broken glass. It was an act. Her wrists bore the scars of previous dramas. I let her stay because I had a soft heart. She wrote no suicide note adn neither did Ruslana.
If only I had been there for her.
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