Responsible for the death of his son, a father tries to explain his actions leading up to the tragedy before taking his own life.

For the same reason I don't have him flying a helicopter to Mars.

The way I see it at the moment, both the dead son and the father are expressing separate thoughts, but they tie together so it looks like they're conversing with each other, specifically by the exchange at the end, one line of which is the title of the piece.

If you've seen the first episode of the television series, Spaced, it's kind of like the opening conversations between four of the characters at the beginning of that... kind of.

Suggestion: why not have him explaining himself on a suicide hotline call?

This gives you a dialogue rather than a monologue and an "antagonist", a hotline volunteer whose goal opposes his. Further, hotline personnel are trained to explore and reflect -- not discount, not critique -- their feelings, their emotional pain.

Suggestion: why not have him explaining himself on a suicide hotline call?

This gives you a dialogue rather than a monologue and an "antagonist", a hotline volunteer whose goal opposes his. Further, hotline personnel are trained to explore and reflect -- not discount, not critique -- their feelings, their emotional pain.