I will be keeping his children and his victims in my prayers, and I certainly hope he repented before he faced the judgement seat of Christ.
How can a person repent who is committing suicide? Do you take the pills and then say you're sorry? He did this in a hospital bathroom, which he couldn't monopolize for a long time, and my guess it was with a gun.
Having had an emotionally ill friend commit suicide, I hope it is forgiven when the person is not right mentally. His problem was sin, guilt and hypocritical disbelief, not confusion. And a father of 11 -- and think not only of the victims, but the people he "helped" and "inspired."
I remember when the popular evangelist Ravi Zacharias was discovered to be a sex pest with masseuses. The whole ministry went up in smoke, his family and employees devastated, and many of his fans really struggled with feelings of betrayal. He erased any of the good he set out to do.
Agreed.