Mary Tyler Moore also suffered real heartache in her life, heartache that perhaps gave her perspective about life and motherhood that made her wary of embracing feminism publicly. MTM’s sister, Elizabeth, who was twenty years younger than MTM, died of either an accidental drug overdose or suicide when she (Elizabeth) was 21 years old and MTM was 35. Two years later, MTM’s son, Richard, who as 19, died when a gun he was cleaning accidentally went off and shot him in the head. Eight years after that, MTM’s only brother, John, died of cancer. That is a staggering amount of loss to endure.
What was MTM’s cause of death??
I had to see the dates.
I do not know how one could ever smile again after all that?
Ordinary People, Release date: September 19, 1980
In this film, teenager Timothy Hutton lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns while trying to rescue the suicide-prone Hutton.
On October 14, 1980, at the age of 24, Moore’s son Richard died of an accidental gunshot to the head while handling a sawed-off shotgun.[50] The model was later taken off the market because of its “hair trigger”. WIKI
Why have a sawed off?