Oh because he has ALS, he is a weenie, has a huge temper tantrum because he is afraid of death, pathetic
That’s what it sounds like. Maybe the sister-in-law saved the children from whatever he’d planned by living long enough to call the police.
This also makes me wonder, as I our society grows more to resemble suicide cults such as Islam or traditional Japan, will there be more situations of people who decide that, since they don’t want to live any longer, neither should any of their family members?