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Please say a prayer for this guy's family. At about 6am this morning my neighbor, Rick, shot and killed himself. He was depressed and apparantly, had gone off his meds. He called one of our other neighbors to come over right before he did it so the neighbor would find his body and not his wife who was in another part of the house.

He was a very nice man and this is just a very sad situation. My normally quiet street was filled with cop cars and ambulances this morning.

Thanks for the prayers.
Lisa

Sorry, BG.

Sorry to hear that

My heart and prayers go out to them and you. It sounds like you knew him (I'm guessing) reasonably well.

Sad situation.........sorry Lisa!

Horrible, Im sorry to hear that.

Sometimes people can be seriously hurting and yet so good at masking the fact they need help in a bad way. My best friend and his wife seemed like the happiest couple around, ultimately their relationship was the pits but they covered well. Not as tragic as suicide but used it just to drive the point home.
We seriously all need friends who we can count on to keep us accountable and unafraid to inquire further if we seem to be in a funk. Men I believe have a hard time finding an intimate (in the good way) male friend. But if you happen to have a friend who is unafraid to risk the friendship by telling you what you need to be told...you are a lucky person.

Wow... sorry to hear that. It's always extra shocking when stuff like that hits so close to home.

WOW, sorry this happened

Thoughts and prayers for his family and friends. May he rest in peace.

Aw geez that's awful. Prayers are on the way

i had somebody i knew do this right before our last deployment, you never really realize the impact until weeks after it happens. i dont wanna sound like an arse or anything because im not speaking solely on your neighbor's case; but it really truely imho the most selfish thing anybody can do.

to put that much hurt, sorrow and burden on your loved ones to get out of your own...

my condolences to his family

Sorry to hear the news.

It has to be unbelievable torment that causes a person to take their own life.

That's very sad, prayers for the family.

That is sad...what is even sadder is that a physical disability is accepted in these days.....And mental disabilities along with depression ..are often taken with resent...It must be taken seriously ...for those who suffer from it ...don`t always understand what happens to the loved ones left behind.....I don`t like it when people degrade a suicide...The mind works in ways we don`t understand.........

MY Prayers are with him and his family. Never understood suicide.

Prayers being sent...

Wow, sorry to hear that I feel horrible for his wife
RIP

Sorry to hear that. Always sad when depression takes over people like that. God bless him and his family.

I had a real close friend do that about 15 years ago and I still don't understand what was so bad that he shot himself.Whatever it was,he covered it up real well, cause I never noticed anything different about him.
Sorry to hear about this.

Thanks guys. I haven't heard anything else, only that he had started alot of business opportunities and that they all had failed and he was very close to going bankrupt.

That's so sad, I'm sorry to hear that.

I'll never understand people who can't be compassionate about what kind of unbelievable torment these people are in to do something like this.

I will just post this here as another sad story... a note came home with my son yesterday that a teacher at his elementary school died yesterday morning in her sleep.. 40 years old, a child in middle school and another in elementary school.. she had an anurysm.... Not exactly what I needed to hear on my 41st birthday...

Wow.

...very sad for his family...

Well, I will pile on... I live in a very small rural community of about 1,200.

On Wednesday, after school let out. One of the kids was driving home - went off road - flipped the car several times - was ejected head first through the windshield and skidded some 50 feet through a field. He died at the scene.

Several other students were in cars on the same road right behind him. They saw it all. This is also a road used by many of the school busses. Many children k-12 saw the scene and body. The first hand accounts I have heard are beyond disturbing and chilling.

Oh man!

So sorry Brownsgirl!

Prayers are on the way from up north!

I saw footage and saw a very similar story on the news yesterday here......I wonder if it was the same boy. Tragic.

I live in Jamestown (near Dayton). It seems like something like this happens every spring. It is just sad.

I'm in Xenia, Merth, right down the road. That is the one I saw, the kid from Greenview. That was very sad.

I had no idea you were so close. I thought you lived up near Cleveland.

Kids at the scene at the time of the accident said he was doing close to 100mph when he went into the ditch. He was not wearing a seat belt. The accident happened may 3 to 4 miles from my house. I travel that road pretty regularly.

As a parent, I cannot even imagine the grief that his parents feel right now. My world revolves around my children - as evidenced by my sig. THe thought of losing a healthy child at that age is just unfathomible to me.

I agree... I think in a lot of cases... suicide is like a dangling dagger of sorts. You never really can be sure if and when it will finally drop.

Terribley sad, somebody cant find anything to live for, Ya only get one chance to go around, sad when somebody dosent wanna go on and cant find anything worth continuing for....

Agree,...it really has to be desparate when you give up the last thing you ever have to hold onto -- yourself.