Tragic: A woman facing foreclosure commits suicide, faxes note to her mortgage company that said “by the time they foreclosed on the house today she’d be dead.” [Boston]
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@vdragonmpc:
I read both articles, unless I missed it, there was nothing stating what the husband’s wages were, just that he was a plumber, and worked for a mechanical company. Also, I saw nothing that stated that there were 3 other working adults in the house, just a line that stated that her son worked as a cook in a local restaurant.
And FWIW, that’s not a Tahoe, that’s the smaller Trailblazer. My FIL bought some stripped versions for his business for around $20k. And as someone else pointed out the Eclipse has New Hampshire plates. Might be theirs, might not.
This is tragic and I pray for her family and her soul. This whole thing will be fery difficult on her family, I am sure.
This is one reason that, in a marraige, both husband and wife need to be fully involved in the finances. They both could have handled the situation together, with love.
@blue_duck: I volunteer now and then for an animal shelter. They do charge for people to bring animals in. So rather than pay, people drive up and tie dogs to trees outside and take off. The shelter’s open 7 days a week so someone will see it sooner or later and bring it in. And the person dropping it off doesn’t have to give ID or pay the “receiving fee.”
Very sad story. Hope this doesn’t start a trend, considering that things keep getting worse before they start to get better.
Awful, I can’t imagine the stress of losing a home, and then to boot, having to tell, at the last minute, the husband who’s been kept in the dark. What stress. I doubt the auction proceeded as scheduled, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they still lost the house. She was depressed and desperate, but all she did was solve her own problems, now her husband has to deal with losing his wife and his home. It’s taken me a while, but I finally understand what my 5th grade teacher when she meant that suicide is selfish. This isn’t blaming the victim, but when I hear of it happening, especially to a friend of a friend/someone close, I realize that no problems are solved. You can’t take it with you, that goes for money and material possessions, but problems such as this as well. I just hope the husband doesn’t follow down the same path.
@NoWin: Wow, they didn’t mention that stuff in the original article I read.
On a side note, I didn’t think you could file for bankruptcy that frequently, not that I ever intend to do it myself, I just thought the original one was “on” for something like 7 years.
@synergy: This is why I was so upset. I caught the cat in a have a heart trap, and they wanted me to pay. If I knew how to neuter him, I would have. But he was unmarked(no notch/tatoo), and at the time I didn’t have 60 bucks floating around. I know they video their office, so I couldn’t drop him off there. As a kid, I once used a leash to tie my cat to a branch while I went to school(I was a kid, and had no concept of time. I thought TV stopped when you turned it off, and started again when you turned it on). He got the leash off the branch, and took off to our corral. He ended up jumping off the end of a pile of old fence, and the leash caught on one of the boards, and he hung himself. I loved the cat, and never meant him harm. I still feel bad to this day, so I could never tie a cat up. That’s why I ended up taking him to a park ten miles away. He was a outside cat to begin with, so he could handle himself. In a weird twist, my neighbors reported seeing a similar cat a few months later.
And I don’t mean to nitpick, but why is the paraphrase in quotes? I’m pretty sure the woman didn’t refer to herself in the third person.
And I guess it’s paraphrasing the article, but it makes it sound like she actually, whatever nvm
This is what happens when you buy the cheap Mother’s Day cards. Always, always buy Hallmark. Clearly, she didn’t feel loved.
Imagine bearing the weight of a secret like that for three years…still I have to call b.s. on husband not having the slightest clue. He may not have realized how depressed she was, but there’s no way to hide financial difficulty of that magnitude unless one partner deliberately keeps their head buried in the sand.
I’d like to say that the lack of humanity displayed in some of the comments on this post shock me, but I know better.
Anyone who kills himself or herself is mentally ill. None of the logic or rational paths out of this situation were going to work for her. She was likely literally driven to a psychotic break by the stresses surrounding her finances.
@RabbitDinner: I always found that irritating because it sounds as though they think people who commit suicide do it because they only care about what they want and not how it will hurt others. In fact, some people actually do see it that way.
While I also understand what’s meant by it, I don’t think selfish is the right way to describe suicide.
@vdragonmpc: Your post is not only blaming the victim, it’s callous and inflammatory. Read the comment code, and behave yourself.
@Rectilinear Propagation: I wouldn’t go so far as to call it selfish myself, but intent aside, because who knows what was going through the poor woman’s mind-no problems were solved-just left to the husband. And I’m not blaming the victim.