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Originally Posted by Happinow
I know a bit about it. The gentleman who committed suicide found out that he was ill, I'm not sure with what, but he told his wife that he was going to commit suicide and she went to call the sheriff and when she did he took off in his golf cart with a gun and that was it. Someone I know was due to play golf with this man the next day when he got word of the tragedy. Terrible thing and my thoughts are with he and his family.
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Very hard to get over one of these within a family. My great uncle killed himself in 1992 for roughly the same reason. Terminal illness and he did not want to burden any one. He was very clear in his thinking when he did this. He even drove his clunker to a funeral home parking lot and shot himself there.
He and I were quite close as we used to exchange letters ever week or so for almost 15 years.
Many of us still think we could have done something to stop him if he had just talked about it more.
My condolences to the family and friends.