This may be

This may be the saddest thing I've ever read. Excerpted from a widely-syndicated item originating in April of this year:Chinese man eaten by zoo tiger BEIJING (Reuters) - A tiger devoured a mentally ill man who entered the animal’s zoo cage in northeast China, local media reported on Friday.Zhang Yachun disappeared from his home in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, on March 24 and five days later police told his parents he had been eaten by a tiger in a nearby zoo, the China news service reported, citing a Harbin newspaper. “Only two legs and his skull were left,” the report said. Zhang’s grieving parents said their 37-year-old son suffered mental illness and “especially loved tigers”.I...I nearly cried when I read that, but then I started to laugh, because it's just so eerily perfect in its tragic; it approaches argumentation for the epistemology on the ontology of God*. It therefore might seem contrived, but one knows it is not. I think of the suffering of that man, and I shudder internally, but when I consider it as an artifact, which it now is, I find it faintly comical in its overweening incredibility.*Though perhaps as theodicy.