I don't find this tragic story 'encouraging' at all. Would you?

I just read the experience of Brian McCloskey in Living Buddhism which Blanche linked to on the Sgi-usa reddit.

I find it a bit shocking that anyone would have ok'd his life story as encouragement. It's really borderline if it has any positivity at all, considering how it ended. Nothing, nothing, not a word of that story would tempt me to practice in SGI. Hearing Brian's story from 3 points of view just emphasizes what a trial his life was for everyone, him included...did he actually kill anyone?

I do wholly sympathize with his parents. His mom spent at least 15 years in front of the scroll before having a revelation she might have achieved quite quickly through attending an Al-Anon meeting (for those people living with alchoholics and drug addicts). I don't mean any harm by saying that, I know a little something about children and the pain they can cause and in my opinion Brian's parents were left to deal with something out of their control, pretty much on their own. So it seems.

https://www.bdmsua.org/about-ba/