Mom went the same way when I was ten. As I grew older I was finally told that she was schizophrenic and that it was a good thing I was at the neighbors when she made up her mind to go.
Thats so very sad to read. We just had a young man here that decided to take his own life about two weeks ago, its so sad when they think that it needs to come to this.
I was talking to my buddy the other night, he judged a beef show last year. At lunch someone asked if he'd heard about some of the kids who were showing, about what happened to their father. They had a dairy farm I think, they went out to the hay barn and found their father hanging from the rafters. Then he had to go finish judging. I guess he left a wife and five kids.