Diabetic ends despair

Dreading a long-term treatment of an ailment that saw no cure and the prospect of losing a rotting leg due to gangrene, a 50-year-old jobless diabetic decided to hang himself to death Saturday in Malabon City.

Victim Efren Aquino, jobless, of 69 Liwayway street, Bayan-Bayanan, Malabon City, was found lifeless by his wife, Lolita, hanging from a ceiling beam inside their house at around one in the morning.

She told probers that prior to the incident, her husband asked her to run an errand for him but found him already dead when she returned.

Probers also gathered that the victim was allegedly advised by doctors to prepare for the inevitable amputation of his right leg due to severe infection that could endanger his life if left alone. The leg had already showed signs of gangrene, authorities said.

The thought of being forever a burden to his already suffering family must have pushed her husband, without any visible source of income as he was, into deep despair and into committing suicide, Lolita told probers. – Jerry Botial