Did he have someone sitting there knitting while he did it?
Pity he'll never get the opportunity to bask in the glow of a job well done.
It would have been more apropriate for Brunie to seek help for depression. That would have been better than commiting suicide by beheading himself with the guillotine which he had built. Regardless of what problems you may face, suicide is never the correct solution. Also, it would have been better had he not built the deadly device at all. My heart gos out his entire family and relatives because it was such a wasteful loss of life.
I am now 20 years old. My uncle took it upon hiself to take himself away from us & the world because he simply could not take any more. DEPRESSION is REAL. So for YOU to comment it was such a waste of life is so disrespectful I’m shaking while writing this. And to the person who said ‘was somebody knitting while he was making the guillotine’ NO. Nobody was with him, as my dad and the rest of my family believed him when he said he was fine, but that’s what depression does to you, you know your not fine you know your about to go off the edge but when the people that love you the most ask about you, you HAVE to put that fake smile on your face and tell them your okay, because believe it or not Kevin loved every single person in his family & friends he just hated the world we live in. So don’t ever speak about my uncle and what he decided on when you NEVER knew him.
Well, of course he's cheerful. He just built a fully-functioning guillotine, for crying out loud! That's a very cool achievement!
('Course, committing suicide *isn't*...)