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..
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.