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In reply to the discussion: Do you personally know anyone who's committed suicide? [View all]jmowreader
(50,590 posts)He was my niece's husband. He was also the State of Idaho's regional suicide prevention expert. I did their wedding a few years back, and...oh man, it went from "can you design a menu for us?" to "can you design a menu, lay out the invitations on your computer, prepare food for 250 people, help construct the decorations, do makeup on seven adult women and one teenager twice (once a week before the wedding, and again the day of), go shopping with us six times, take your mother who hates everything to buy an outfit, alter two bridesmaids gowns, and keep your sister from killing your mother for trying to ruin the wedding?" I mean, I don't necessarily mind but damn, if I would have known this more than three days from the wedding I would have taken a week off work. (Strangely enough, she DIDN'T ask me to help with the funeral, probably because the church she held it in sold her an all-inclusive package.)
We're finding out more and more about why he did it from searching his phone, but when he decided to do it, first he wrote a LOT of suicide notes - six that we know of - left all the passwords to his computer on his desk so his employees could carry out their work, made sure his insurance, retirement etc. would transfer to my niece...then bought a $1000 handgun, a half-gallon of tequila and an eighth of the strongest weed you can get from the Spokane cannabis stores, then went out in the woods, put a warning on his window as to what people would find if they went beyond that point, drank quite a bit of the tequila and smoked most of the pot, then put a round through his head.
By the way, does anyone know how to get clotted blood out of the charging port on an iPhone?