Obituary mentions mental health issues. Perhaps he was sick and never received proper care.
Family sure as hell didn’t give a fig.
The obit mentions mental health issues at least 3 times, certainly two. We have such a crappy mental health system in the USA at this time I defy anyone who reads this and thinks this guy deserves all of it to find someone who doesn’t at one point or another in his or her life.
I base my comment on what I recall of another article on the prevalence of mental illness in this country: 30% are mentally ill all the time; 30% are marginally ill and frequently not ill all the time and the rest are, theoretically sane all the time...until they become one of the 30% in the marginally ill group.
Since his family didn’t describe his mental illness, I would have to guess based on my personal experience of living with a wonderful/horrible man with bipolar disease that Larry was probably bipolar. A bunch of his family may have the same disorder. Difficult to diagnose (oh, but they can be so charming!) and almost impossible to treat.
I suspect everything they said has a good chance of being true, but I would bet money there was more...it just surfaced less often so it didn’t count.
What a shame we don’t treat our mentally ill better.