Together, they read on his papers a survey of the most common words found in suicide notes and mass murder letters. Shame had come up over fifty times. Anger, thirty times. Corona, once. Heineken, once. Beer, thrice. On the next page, an advertisement by the National Health Board with the message “Unable to cry? Call us now.

~ Sihan Tan

Sihan Tan Advertisement Anger Beer Death Letter Murder Note Suicide

Not all tear ducts worked the same. People, as Firdaus learned, cried the hardest when experiencing mixed emotions.

~ Sihan Tan

Sihan Tan Crying Emotions Experiences Life