About suicides in The Villages: A woman on my street took her own life by shooting herself in the head. I know because I was the one who discovered this situation. I was walking past her house and saw several newspapers in her driveway. No one answered the door but there were dogs in the house that started barking. I asked a neighbor to call community watch and community watch called the police. I walked around the house with the officer as we looked in the windows.
Anyway, eventually we saw her through the back bedroom window and she had shot herself in the head.
When I called the Daily Sun to tell them what had happened, they informed me that they do NOT do stories on suicides. They said it only encourages copycat suicides.
So, if it's true that there are a lot of suicides in The Villages, how would we know if it never gets reported?
I believe she would have killed her self even if she didn't have a gun. The officer said they found pills scattered on her night table.
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