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Merrill Apparently Shot Himself On the Bay
Washington Post ^
| 6-21-06
| Eric Rich
Posted on 06/21/2006 5:06:02 AM PDT by Renfield
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To: edpc
On your profile page you forgot Turkle for turtle. (Slim, the displaced 5 generation Easton resident)
To: IamConservative
Interesting that one could get to 72 years of age and finally decide "I can't take it anymore." One would think that proclivity would have been acted out many years ago. With poor health and declining mental capacity, I could see what would make a formally successful and vibrant man become dismal and forlorn.. The utter depth of ones grief can only be measured by their previously overwhelming achievements.. Pity is, no one, or nothing could have saved him from his despair. Slowly I believe to the victim of this much depression, it becomes a self fulfilling act of bravery..
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:16:34 AM PDT
by
carlo3b
("Leave the gun, take the cannolis")
To: carlo3b
Slowly I believe to the victim of this much depression, it becomes a self fulfilling act of bravery.. Certainly. I worded my thoughts pretty poorly in my statement and have gotten some grief for it. When I read the article originally, what struck me was the very odd circumstances. Alone on a boat at sea, anchor rope wrapped around his legs, shot to the head. If someone were facing the emotional circumstances you describe, and I can certainly understand how that could happen and don't judge it negatively, the circumstances of this gentleman's demise strike me as odd. It seems like a hit more than suicide. Then again, if one were to reach such a depressed and forlorn state, who knows how they would really feel? Perhaps he thought he could shoot himself and be drug under the water by the anchor and leave everyone believing he simply drowned in an accident. In any manner of events, it was a tragic way to depart.
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:36:31 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
To: metmom
suicide? With an anchor tied around his ankle(s)? If he had an anchor tied around his ankle(s), how did he float?
If he tied the anchor around his ankle(s) first, he sunk and how did he shoot himself?
If he shot himself first, how did he tie an anchor around his ankle(s)?
Make up my mind.
I'd guess somebody is scared poopless about whoever did this and is playing it real safe.
I know what you're thinking, was it one shotgun blast or two?
Frankly in all the excitement I've lost count, myself.
Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you?
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:41:21 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: sweetiepiezer
All anti-depressants should have that warning, about suicide. Drug companies have gotten away with hiding how depressing anti-depressants are for some people. If this family has money, maybe they can fight the drug company, would be good to see as so many not so monied famiies just try to cope with the terrible grief that comes with suicide from anti-depressants.
*gently clears throat*
When I first went on antidepressants there was a brief period when I was feeling enough better that suicide looked like a viable option. Before the meds, I was quite literally too depressed to kill myself...
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:50:19 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: joylyn
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:54:52 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: LowOiL
If nobody finds you, your family collects insurance. After the seven years it takes to have you declared legally dead. OTOH, the suicide exemption on a life insurance policy expires after you've had the policy for a year...
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:57:56 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: GAD
It's just a bad attempt at covering up a cowardly suicide. or dastardly murder...
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:59:44 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: Renfield
Local lore has it that unscrupulous oystermen in the 1800's would find unemployed black men looking for work around the docks, take them on as hands, work them hard, and after the boat was loaded with oysters, instead of paying them, the captains would knock them in the head, and push them overboard into the freezing water off bloody point.We all know this kind of stuff only happened in the South!
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:05:27 AM PDT
by
lonestar
(Me, too--Weinie)
To: Sacajaweau
More likely that he would OD than shoot himself. Yep. "He was befuddled and accidentally OD'd." A much nicer explanation for the family to live with (even if in a corner of their mind they know it wasn't an accident).
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:10:04 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: RetiredArmy
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:11:21 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: Protagoras; carmenbmw
LOL! Someone had to say it...
You're a BAD man!
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:15:11 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:16:28 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: null and void
Ummmm, tasty critters,,,,,,ummmmm.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:18:00 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
To: Protagoras
Your true identity has been outed:
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:19:55 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: carmenbmw
Just remember they spread manure over all those crops.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:21:35 AM PDT
by
f zero
To: null and void
OOPs, remote linking forbidden.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:27:05 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
To: Protagoras
Take two:
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:29:08 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: Protagoras
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:29:34 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Propaganda by blackout" - longtermmemmory, 6/21/06)
To: angkor
What some of the anti depressants do is make one feel good enough to be able to act on one's impulses whatever they may be.
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