Occupation: Politician Birth: December 1, 1933 Death: January 3, 1987
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….
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alie….
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a ….
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater o….
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit g….
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a pow….
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent..
I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy..
But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingre….
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proc….
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decrea….
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian ….
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the sa….
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any bus….
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible in….
I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world..
I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future..
I believe in God and immortality..
I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God..
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..