Life is complex and it can be tragic, but it is also exceedingly beautiful and it is profound tragedies like this that illustrate, that indeed, none of us are islands onto ourselves and that yes indeed, when the bell tolls for one it tolls for all of us.
In relation to the Syrian conflict, Mr Corbyn rejected the use of air strikes against Isis, and insisted the answer to solving the four-year civil war was "too complex and tragic" to be found in a "few more bombs".
"RANZCP does not comment on individual cases, but notes that attempted suicide is a complex and tragic issue that requires appropriate clinical care," the organisation's president, Professor Malcolm Hopwood, told Guardian Australia.
Villains are often as complex and tragic as heroes.
A friend of mine seriously insisted that "Satisfaction" was about a free, complex and tragic love affair of two underground anarchists, and that "Stairway to Heaven" was written by a famous English mystic who was publicly burned in medieval England for his experiments in the occult.
At the core of any adaptation of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" -- and there have been many, including Dennis Potter's 1978 BBC production starring Alan Bates and "The Claim," a 2000 film that turned the novel into a moody western -- is the issue of Michael Henchard's complex and tragic character.
But all this coexists with another narrative, darker and more sophisticated, complex and tragic.
But positive qualities compensate for these faults: a wealth of exciting and moving scenes and a wide range of sharply individualized characters, the most memorable being the complex, brooding, and tragic figure of King Philip.
Nikiya (J'aime Crandall) is modest and tragic.
Her decline was rapid and tragic.
