What will probably happen, Jan, is that she'll be arrested, since attempted suicide is illegal, then she'll get committed due to "temporary" insanity. Mike IBSSG > [Original Message] > From: J. Garland <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 5/7/2002 10:00:51 PM > Subject: [BSChat] Tea Leaves > > > How's she spooky? > > Oh, just the way she wants to know all the details of everyone's life. All > the time. Seems to be her hobby, living vicariously from the safety of her > home. I feel like I'm being stalked sometimes. > > My son in law's mom is worse, though. She's been a difficult woman and has > displayed some obvious mental problems since we met her. Not sure what the > label would be. Heard today that she tried to kill herself last Saturday, by > OD'ing on aspirin as well as shooting herself in the chest with a 9 mm. > Should have killed her. Instead she walked around for three days without > telling either of two sons that stopped by over the weekend what she had > done. Today, my son-in-law stopped by to see her and she said, "oh, by the > way, I tried to kill myself. Shot myself in the chest." He was baffled, > didn't believe her, there she stood looking like always. She showed him the > wound on her sternum, said it only hurts when she bends over. He was > understandably upset, she didn't want to go to the hospital, finally he got > her to go, after an hour of arguing, and all the time she's telling him that > she'll hate him til she dies for making her go to the hospital. Poor son, > he's a good guy, just trying to do the right thing, and dealing with the > shock of it all. I haven't heard any more, but I guess at the least she'll > be staying overnight, since it was a self-inflicted wound. > > I'm so glad she told him what she'd done. What if she'd been found dead in a > couple more days, with an old wound in her chest? All three sons had been > there at one time or another. Could have cost all of them their freedom for > a while, until things were sorted out--if ever. > > Jan G. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Shuler Michael --- grinch42@mindspring.com --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.