Thread: Elderly American Couple Commit Double-Suicide

CityNews – A foreign couple committed suicide in a hotel using helium gas.




On April 25th, the bodies of a man, 75, and a woman identified only as Dianne were discovered at a hotel in the city. The couple has been staying at the hotel since April 13th.

The housekeeper who found the bodies was sent to check on these two guests as they were scheduled to check out. Once at the room, the housekeeper found a note stating “Do not enter call police” on the curtain. Both of the bodies were on the bed.


Faces of both bodies were wrapped in plastic bags and were connected to a helium gas tank.

They were sent to the hospital for autopsy and police will be notifying the embassy to contact the family.










https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/ne...suicide-hotel/

RIP. Sad and Romantic.....

Originally Posted by GracelessFawn

RIP. Sad and Romantic.....

Yes. I wonder how long they had been together.
I guess they figured it was only going to be downhill from here on in.

Cheers to all of us...... Some good thoughts to ponder. Life is for the living. Enjoy!

I am a firm believer that if people wish to expedite their departure from this earth, it should be up to them.

But why not do it at home?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I am a firm believer that if people wish to expedite their departure from this earth, it should be up to them.

But why not do it at home?

They would want to be found and properly disposed of by people who do not have an emotional attachment and thus minimise the negative emotional effect on loved ones

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

They would want to be found and properly disposed of by people who do not have an emotional attachment and thus minimise the negative emotional effect on loved ones

That might be their logic but I would think their loved ones will have a lot more to go through as a result of their parents topping themselves in a foreign country.

Police are investigating the death of an elderly American couple in Chiang Mai. The two tourists were found dead in a hotel with plastic bags around their heads hooked up to balloons filled with helium in what police believe to be a well-thought-out double-suicide.


Pol Lt Col Mana Sukjaroen, who leads the investigation, said he was notified of the incident at 12:20 on Thursday. The report came after a room maid at the Top North Hotel on Moon Muang Rd near Tha Phae Gate in Chiang Mai’s Phra Singh subdistrict discovered the bodies of James Lewis Hamilton, 75, and his 70-year-old wife Diane Adele De Simone.


Investigators interviewed the manager of the hotel, Pricha Maijandaeng. According to him, Mr Hamilton and Mrs De Simone, who had been staying in the hotel since April 13, were due to check-out on the day their bodies were found.
“Mr Pricha told us that he called the phone in room no. 3207 on the 2nd floor where the two were staying after they did not check-out at 12:00,” Pol Lt Col Mana said. “However, nobody picked up, so Mr Pricha asked a maid to go to their room.”




After the maid’s knocks on the door also remained unanswered, she reportedly attempted to gain access to the room by using a spare key. As she opened the door, she found a piece of paper attached to a hanger reading “DO NOT ENTER – CALL POLICE”. She then found the lifeless bodies of Mr Hamilton and Mrs De Simone on the bed inside the room.

An initial police report states that both tourists had plastic bags wrapped around their heads which were connected by a thin hose to a balloon filled with gas from a tank in the room. The valve of the 40-litre-tank, which police say most likely contained helium, was fully opened and the content already empty, leading police to conclude that the couple had committed suicide and died of inert gas asphyxiation.


Forensic police briefly examined the bodies on the scene and said they were in full rigor mortis and therefore have been dead for at least 12 hours. They were dressed wearing white t-shirts and grey shorts. Both of them wore diapers, the police report stated. A note with contact information was also found in the room.


“All the preparations they have made make it look like a well-thought-out double-suicide,” Pol Lt Col Mana interpreted the scene. The maid said that the two guests were a jolly couple and gave no indication they were going to commit suicide. Three days before the incident, they had greeted her in a friendly manner and asked not to be disturbed, police revealed.


Volunteers of the Ruam Jai Chiang Mai Rescue Foundation took the bodies of Mr Hamilton and Mrs De Simone to Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital where a post-mortem examination will be conducted. The American authorities in Chiang Mai have been informed, police confirmed.

https://www.farang-deaths.com/case/j...ewis-hamilton/

All love stories end with sorrow but their suicide spared one of them the grief.


I wonder why this couple chose this time in their lives together to die. Were they both sick? Broke? Depressed because they were 75?

Reminds me a film called The notebook that we watched last month.

I'm going to have to get writing soon because I wouldn't even believe my own story when I'm old and grey.

In 1940s South Carolina, mill worker Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and rich girl Allie (Rachel McAdams) are desperately in love. But her parents don't approve. When Noah goes off to serve in World War II, it seems to mark the end of their love affair. In the interim, Allie becomes involved with another man (James Marsden). But when Noah returns to their small town years later, on the cusp of Allie's marriage, it soon becomes clear that their romance is anything but over.
Release date: June 25, 2004 (USA)
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Screenplay: Jeremy Leven
Awards: MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Liplock, More
Story by: Nicholas Sparks, Jan Sardi

I wonder if it's this Diane De Simone:

https://www.amazon.com/Diane-de-Simone/e/B008HA3SX6

^ Seems to be...

the bodies of James Lewis Hamilton, 75, and his 70-year-old wife Diane Adele De Simone.

About Diane de Simone

Originally Posted by Amazon

Diane ..... currently lives with her partner, James Lewis Hamilton, an artist; remaining passionate about Thailand, "the force, the quantum field, transformation, and healing."

@fishlocker - I've watched watched The Notebook twice. Cried loads both of times. I bet if I watch it again, I'll fill buckets with tears. It's that kind of movie (for me anyway).

Re: the OP, sad. Maybe one of them had a terminal illness and the other didn't want to watch his/her partner deteriorate and be left alone? IMO, they're not too elderly - my mom is older, and she's still sprightly, as are other seniors that I know.


RIP to the couple...

Originally Posted by misskit

All love stories end with sorrow but their suicide spared one of them the grief.


I wonder why this couple chose this time in their lives together to die. Were they both sick? Broke? Depressed because they were 75?

Reminds me of this beautiful Natalie Merchant song.

Beloved Wife
Natalie Merchant





You were the love
For certain of my life
You were simply my beloved wife
I don't know for certain
How I'll live my life
Now alone without my beloved wife
My beloved wife
I can't believe
I've lost the very best of me
You were the love
For certain of my life
You were simply my beloved wife
I don't know for certain
How I'll live my life
Now alone without my beloved wife
My beloved wife
I can't believe
I've lost the very best of me
You were the love
For certain of my life
For 50 years simply my beloved wife
With another love I'll never lye again
It's you I can't deny
It's you I can't defy
A depth so deep
Into my grief
Without my beloved soul
I renounce my life
As my right
Now alone without my beloved wife
My beloved wife
My beloved wife
My love…

I was going to write some thing.... I think she covered it. The note on the door says a lot. A bit of class I would say to wear a diaper.
When you hit the ground running just think of the folks that have to clean up after your mess.

I will let her do the talking......

htts://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMHSbcd_qI

Originally Posted by misskit

I wonder why this couple chose this time in their lives together to die. Were they both sick? Broke? Depressed because they were 75

Doubt anything to do with their age. I am 75 and certainly have no intention to off myself. My guess poor health.

Originally Posted by Norton

Doubt anything to do with their age. I am 75 and certainly have no intention to off myself. My guess poor health.

Looking at her body of work, perhaps they timed it to be picked up by a passing alien ship or something.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Looking at her body of work, perhaps they timed it to be picked up by a passing alien ship or something.

Possibly. No telling why folks do stuff like this.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I am a firm believer that if people wish to expedite their departure from this earth, it should be up to them.

But why not do it at home?

Exotic Oriental locale?

Hardly exotic.

I can fully understand how an individual or a couple could come to a logical conclusion that they'd had enough.
It intrigues me the way so many folk seem to think that such action is wrong.
If one removes any of the farcical religious edicts, which any one with an ounce of common sense must reject, there seems to me to be no reason whatsoever to condemn their actions.
Thinking people get tired of the nonsense world in which we strive to survive and exist.
There comes a point when one really takes the time to assess, evaluate, and consider the point of it all.
They were both, it seems, intelligent, thoughtful people, who decided to stop.
They succeeded in a relatively mess less, trauma free way.
Respect is due, IMHO.