{"id":225,"date":"2011-06-12T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=225"},"modified":"2011-06-20T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:38:46","slug":"biggest-questions-left-unanswered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/06\/12\/biggest-questions-left-unanswered\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest questions left unanswered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Morning Sentinel) We will never know what one elderly couple said to each other in their Skowhegan bedroom before the husband shot his ailing wife and then himself.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, 85-year-old Barbour and 75-year-old Marie Flewellen, left no  suicide note. <!--more-->Barbour&#8217;s last known words were made to Skowhegan  dispatch when he called to report two &#8220;mercy killings&#8221; on the morning of  May 24.<\/p>\n<p>What we do know is that the elderly are the most likely to commit  suicide in both Maine and the United States. The greatest percentage of  people who kill themselves are older white men. In Maine, of the  approximately 190 people who kill themselves each year, about 80 percent  are male.<\/p>\n<p>Continue: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinesentinel.com\/news\/suicides-leave-biggest-questions-unanswered_2011-06-11.html\">http:\/\/www.onlinesentinel.com\/news\/suicides-leave-biggest-questions-unanswered_2011-06-11.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Morning Sentinel) We will never know what one elderly couple said to each other in their Skowhegan bedroom before the husband shot his ailing wife and then himself. The couple, 85-year-old Barbour and 75-year-old Marie Flewellen, left no suicide note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40872,40871,41276,41278],"tags":[42123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}