<p>Suicide Is Not Painless
Frank Rich</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/opinion/21rich.html?em&ex=1193198400&en=c90b9129680b2905&ei=5087 [/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/opinion/21rich.html?em&ex=1193198400&en=c90b9129680b2905&ei=5087 </a></p>
<p>IT was one of those stories lost in the newspaper’s inside pages. Last week a man you’ve never heard of - Charles D. Riechers, 47, the second-highest-ranking procurement officer in the United States Air Force - killed himself by running his car’s engine in his suburban Virginia garage.</p>
<p>Mr. Riechers’s suicide occurred just two weeks after his appearance in a front-page expos</p>