A man in Germany has committed suicide by hiding deep in a forest and starving himself to death. The man, known only as Hans Z, kept a diary as his life ebbed away.
Police said that two hunters had found the decaying corpse of the 58-year-old man in an isolated hide.
It was discovered in a make-shift treehouse 16ft off the ground in a forest about 60 miles from his hometown of Hanover.
By his body was a chronicle of the 24 days he spent there before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage, his estrangement from his daughter and his long-term unemployment.
The last entry in the diary was written on Dec 13, almost two months ago. Police suspect he died on that day or shortly after.
Police described the death as a "clear suicide" and said that they would pass on the diary to the man's daughter, as he had requested that they should do in an entry in the notebook.
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