I dated a great gal for a long time in my early 30's. Her sister's husband was Bob Merrill who was a famous song writer and Broadway show lyricist. One of his biggest hits was Barbra Streisand's famous song "People, People who need People .... " and the Broadway hit Funny Girl. He got cancer and was in constant pain. Decided he couldn't take the prospect of dying all fucked up from it and everyone seeing him deteriorate like that, so he went out to his car in his driveway and put a gun to his head and kaboom took his own life.
He was a really down to earth nice guy and the last kind you'd think would do that. But I guess when you see no light at the end of your tunnel in life, everything takes on a different perspective and you've lost all hope for ever being healthy again.
Here's some of his best music . . .
