gillbrooks opened this issue on Mar 10, 2005 ยท 116 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 11 March 2005 at 12:41 AM
That's an old article. David Reimer's brother, Brian, killed himself. David Reimer killed himself within the last year or two.
Yes, he did. For financial reasons. As I recall, he dropped something on the order of $35,000 on a bad investment.
He had always had financial difficulties. Losing that money was the last of it for him.
So, he killed himself.
However -- as the article stated -- he had already attempted suicide several times previously. Largely due to issues over what was done to him as a child......and the emotional problems extending therefrom.
Also:
The fact that he committed suicide in no way lessens the impact of his story. If anything, it adds to the point.