FAMILY'S SUICIDE NO HASTY ACT : TRAGEDY IN FLORIDA CAREFULLY PLANNED.Byline: Lori Rozsa Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire An 8-year-old boy thwarted thwart tr.v. thwart·ed, thwart·ing, thwarts 1. To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of: They thwarted her plans. 2. the car-asphyxiation suicide of his parents 10 weeks ago, missed one day of school and never said a word. This week his millionaire father, a tormented alcoholic, walked into the bedroom of his sleeping son and shot him to death with a .22-caliber handgun. Then he killed the boy's mother, a willing victim, as she lay beside her son, clasping clasp·ing adj. Botany Denoting a leaf whose base partially or completely surrounds a stem. her rosary rosary [rose garden], prayer of Roman Catholics, in which beads are used as counters. The term, applied also to the beads, is extended to Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist prayers that use beads. beads in her hands. And, finally, he shot himself, seated in a chair a few feet away. The suicide notes A suicide note is a message left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide. It is estimated that 12-20% of suicides are accompanied by a note.[1] However, incidence rates may depend on race, method of suicide, and cultural differences and may reach rates as high of Robert and Marcia McIntosh are words of agony and sadness. ``On January 8th, at four in the morning, I brought Jeffrey to the garage, and the three of us were in the car with a hose from one car to other, and then Jeffrey woke up and for all of his 8 years he knew what was going on,'' Bob McIntosh, 74, a once-successful Toronto developer, wrote in a suicide note typed by his wife, 49. ``He begged us to stop, and we did. It was the most awful day of our lives. You could see the windows turning blue from the fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. . We all went upstairs to bed (together) and Jeffrey managed to go back to sleep for four hours. He missed school that day, the only (day) he has missed all year. He has never said a word about that day since.'' They left the note, one of four, in an envelope addressed to The Palm Beach Post. Obviously, the McIntoshes had carefully planned the family suicide for a long time, police said. Their elaborate scheme included tidying up their $350,000 home and sticking Post-It notes Post´-it note n. 1. A small sheet of paper having the back part partly covered with a non-permanent gum which allows the note to be attached temporarily to another object, and easily removed without leaving any trace of glue on the object to on everything they wanted to give away, from Jeffrey's hockey sticks to the family silver. They even left a note on the patio door for the pool man, who came to work as scheduled Monday morning. That note instructed him to call police. If he had chanced to miss the note, the McIntoshes had a backup - another Post-It stuck up at the housekeeper's entrance. The medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. estimates the trio died around 3:30 a.m. Monday. All were found in their pajamas pajamas Noun, pl US pyjamas pajamas npl (US) → pijama msg; piyama msg (LAM in Jeffrey's room, the weapon at Robert McIntosh's side. ``This is not easy for me to write I have been sick to my stomach for months, waking up and going to sleep with the thought of what was to happen on March 17th '' Marcia McIntosh wrote in a letter addressed only to ``Dear. . . .'' Financial woes and problems with family and friends made them suicidal su·i·cid·al adj. 1. Of or relating to suicide. 2. Likely to attempt suicide. , she said. She tried to explain why she and her husband thought it best to kill their son. ``There has been such a great love and dependency between Bob, Jeffrey and I, that Bob and I saw no way to leave Jeffrey behind as a financial burden upon another,'' Marcia wrote. ``How could Jeffrey live a normal life with the thought of his parents killing themselves? How could he go on to live a normal life for himself or for the one who would raise him?'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Robert, left, Jeffrey and Marcia McIntosh, shown in this family portrait, died early Monday in a long-planned suicide at their home. Knight-Ridder Tribune Photo Service |
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