Gun Suicide
 

My best friend's sister's husband.... Last Monday night... Pulled out a handgun and shot himself in the head killing himself, right in front of his wife and kid.

It still stuns me that people do stuff like this.

Suicide doesn't stun me but doing it in front of your wife/kid seems not the best choice. Gotta be a rough Thanksgiving for them. :2 cents:

What an asshole.

how old is the kid?

The kid is in the Army, I believe he must be about 24 or so. In fact, they are from Montana but were visiting their son who was stationed at the army base in Biloxi Mississippi when he did this.

Suicide is one thing, doing it in front of your kids...

Stuff like this happens, but it is so bizarre that people don't even really gossip about it.
I was visiting a local bar around my hometown about a year ago and the barmaid told me that someone that grew up around there had finished his term in the military. He was in the bar, walked out and came back in, sat for a bit, then pulled a handgun out and shot himself in the head. Smallish bar.
People go nuts all the time, one engineering student here at the university went streaking through one of the buildings and cut himself all up while doing it. You'll never here that reported in the paper though.
I like crazy stories and I have a talent of getting them out of people. :)

Sometimes people don't lead on just how miserable they are. Quite desperation as Thoreau called it.

I remember around 20 how sick I got, no external reason, just chemical imbalance. Lithium managed to reset my brain, or act like a band aid until my brain matured more. Mental illness is a touchy subject and more complex then other medical categories. Having a brain that doesn't work right is one of the worst things you can have with a heart or other major organ about to fail a 2nd. If your brain doesn't work right or is crazy, your life and actions will reflect it and those around you will treat you as such.

Jesus,what a terrible thing to do in front of your family

thats just terrible. Poor kid and wifey

That's a fucked up shit man... Specially for that poor kid... :(

Sad story. Hope the wife and kids get proper counseling

Oh man, he chose the worse way to go. damn

I don't know how tragic that actually is, considering the alternatives. A lot of people have lost their shit and killed themselves AFTER killing the wife and kids.

At least he pointed the gun in the right direction.

It is obvious that he should not have done it in front of the family.
But then again, I do not judge him. Suicide is the result of a mental illness, so obviously the guy was not thinking.

His wife and the kids will be scarred for life.

The wife is already messed up before this happened. This surely won't help.

any reason why he did it?

I would guess because he hated his wife and kid and knew this would hurt them and fuck their lives up more than anything he could possibly do.

My girl's ex killed himself 4 years ago. It's still something that has a profound effect on the her life and her young daughter's on a daily basis.

He wanted to live forever...