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  • karen lotz
    finished at 71 with a self inflected gunshot wound. http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9283240/retired-driver-dick-trickle-dead-apparent-self-inflicted-gun-shot-wound



  • said_aouita
    More like blood trickle.
  • Midstate01

    I see what you did there
  • Coach Reno
    GIVE ME 50 PUSHUPS OR YOU'RE CUT FROM THE TEAM
  • Tiernan
    If you had to go thru Middle School with the name Dick Trickle you would have eventually killed yourself too.
  • Midstate01
    My senior year I took a drama class. 3 of us were doing a skit and one of the guys we named Dick Trickle. When I said his name in the skit, the teacher stopped us, and told us all go to the office. We had to get online and prove it was a legit name to her. Lol
  • reclegend22
    That seems like a pretty unusual age to kill yourself. I guess I just haven't heard of many 70-year-olds shooting themselves in the head, but I am sure it happens all the time.

    It's extremely sad, but maybe he just felt that his best years were behind him and didn't want to live at that age any longer. As somebody who doesn't care to see 60 -- I say that now, but I'm sure my mind will change if I ever make it to that age -- I do get why he might have felt that way. Watching my Dad and grandparents get old is tough.
  • Mohican00
    reclegend22;1444015 wrote:That seems like a pretty unusual age to kill yourself. I guess I just haven't heard of many 70-year-olds shooting themselves in the head, but I am sure it happens all the time.

    It's extremely sad, but maybe he just felt that his best years were behind him and didn't want to live at that age any longer. As somebody who doesn't care to see 60 -- I say that now, but I'm sure my mind will change if I ever make it to that age -- I do get why he might have felt that way. Watching my Dad and grandparents get old is tough.
    I believe he had cancer
  • GoChiefs
    A likely cause could have been Alzheimer's disease. Suicidal tendencies are very high with people diagnosed with that.
  • reclegend22
    Mohican00;1444041 wrote:I believe he had cancer
    Ah. Thanks. Did not know that. A shame.
  • Midstate01
    GoChiefs;1444043 wrote:A likely cause could have been Alzheimer's disease. Suicidal tendencies are very high with people diagnosed with that.

    After watching my great grandparents go through that. I think id wanna committ suicide too. Brutal disease.
  • OSH
    It's amazing that he called it in himself before he did it.
  • reclegend22
    Midstate01;1444066 wrote:After watching my great grandparents go through that. I think id wanna committ suicide too. Brutal disease.
    A friend of mine from high school had the coolest grandpa growing up. He was just a really good guy and I knew him pretty well, having spent a lot of time at his home, where my friend lived for a time, and attending sporting events with them and things like that. That friend has long since moved away, but his grandpa still lives here. Seeing him today, however, is gut-wrenching, as he has Alzheimer's and has absolutely no idea that he once knew you. I honestly hope I never see him again. I'd rather remember him for who he was and not as some stranger who walked right past me in the supermarket.
  • reclegend22
    OSH;1444069 wrote:It's amazing that he called it in himself before he did it.
    I think he may have stolen that from Seven Pounds. That is one of the greatest scenes in movie history. Will Smith literally killed it in that scene.
  • karen lotz
    reclegend22;1444077 wrote:A friend of mine from high school had the coolest grandpa growing up. He was just a really good guy and I knew him pretty well, having spent a lot of time at his home, where my friend lived for a time, and attending sporting events with them and things like that. That friend has long since moved away, but his grandpa still lives here. Seeing him today, however, is gut-wrenching, as he has Alzheimer's and has absolutely no idea that he once knew you. I honestly hope I never see him again. I'd rather remember him for who he was and not as some stranger who walked right past me in the supermarket.


    He probably remembers you but acts like he doesn't so he doesn't have to talk to you.
  • reclegend22
    karen lotz;1444084 wrote:He probably remembers you but acts like he doesn't so he doesn't have to talk to you.
    Ha. Ha.
  • FREE TRENT
    RIP