Reply #87: Two or three depending on how deliberate it has to be...

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...to be a suicide.

All three were men.

One was a client who shot himself after a divorce because he did not want to live with his advancing illness. He was old and just decided he had enough.

The second was someone who worked for my wife's company. Basically, he lost his job, suffered the loss of a friend and may have been going blind. Hwe also shot himself. He left a widow and a young son.

The third was my cousin who drank himself to death presumably because he was ashamed to be gay and his psychiatric treatment was inadequate. He left all of us.