Escaping The Asylum

Making the Glasgow suicide case emblematic of the broader issue of asylum is unwise for a number of reasons:

• People who seek asylum from Canada are probably not escaping persecution, despite Canada's free speech problem.
• People who enter suicide pacts with their son are plainly either nuts or colossally selfish and not potential model citizens.
• As far as I am aware their motive for suicide is not yet known, assuming that every asylum seeker who commits suicide does so because they are seeking asylum is not a safe assumption.