Posted on 07/30/2017 8:52:34 PM PDT by Radio Free Tuscaloosa
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry said Sunday that her only child, 22-year-old Max Barry, has died of an apparent drug overdose.
An emotional statement released by the mayor and her husband, Bruce Barry, said their son died in Denver on Saturday night.
"Early this morning, we received news that no parents should ever have to hear. Our son Max suffered from an overdose and passed away. We cannot begin to describe the pain and heartbreak that comes with losing our only child. Our son was a kind soul full of life and love for his family and friends," the statement said. "Our family would greatly appreciate your thoughts and prayers, and would respectfully ask for privacy as we mourn the loss of our child and begin to understand a world without his laughter and love in our lives."
Max Barry graduated in June from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. It is unclear what exactly he overdosed on.
Funeral arrangements were pending as of Sunday and will be announced once plans are made, the mayor's office said.
With her husband and son by her side, Megan Barry was sworn in as Nashville's first female mayor in September 2015.
Denver Police Department spokeswoman Raquel Lopez declined to search the department's records and logs for the police report of Barry's death when asked by The Associated Press, saying that would violate the department's policy of not identifying victims.
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“Our son Max suffered from an overdose”
No, your idiot kid killed himself.
Deal with it.
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I don’t guess you understand addiction.
Some freepers are oblivious to the human condition.
This is terrible.
Tragic. All the more reason to build the wall.
"Suffered from an overdose" is more of same. He administered an overdose to himself, which is a hairsplitting distinction from suicide.
some freepers don’t think past the richard cranium reaction.
Cold, heartless, cruel. Please, just try to find just a little compassion. It’s safe to say you’ve had the good fortune in life to not have to suffer a loved one destroying themselves with drugs or booze. How very fortunate for you. I envy you in that regard.
Ouch! The kid just graduated from college. He had a full lifetime ahead of him.
The kid killed himself with drugs, and his surviving family are collateral damage. Drugs are a victimful crime.
May his family heal from their loss.
Lurker got it right.
Drug addicts hate this 'world' so much, they are willing to risk killing themselves to put themselves into a mental state that allows them to 'shut off' the world. It is the whole point of taking drugs. Altering personal experience of reality because you don't like reality. Unfortunately, ignoring reality often kills you.
thank you war on afghanistan
What is it with mayors named Barry?
hey you’re usually not but this time you’re a d.ck :)
“It’s safe to say you’ve had the good fortune in life to not have to suffer a loved one destroying themselves with drugs or booze. How very fortunate for you. I envy you in that regard.”
Not me,
I had a brother who was junkie and he ended up dead.
I have a best friend who was a junkie and I damn near had to kill him to keep him from killing himself.
I had a straight A top of her class headed to a top college who overdosed.
I have had clients who overdosed the day they received a Not Guilty verdict on a POCS charge.
I get it, but they are all junkies and did to to themselves.
Headline might as well be, “Pro-drug State scores another kill.”
Subhead, “Nashville native dies without any hobbies, skills, or respectable accomplishments, but had a real good time and had lots of fun which will be remembered by his friends, for days.”
Mayor Mom as a true liberal tells us how to run our lives because she knows better. She failed as a mother to guide here child. Sad that it happened but she lacks parenting skills.
true but since our losing war in afghanistan, heroin imports have skyrocketed. Because our allies grow heroin like corn
Get over it. Either you are too stupid to know when to stop or you got in deeper than you could handle. No excuses.
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