I hope it was painful...

[GarMan]

... or at a minimum, extremely uncomfortable as he "checked out" in the most cowardly of ways. 

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20080731/48928a40_3421_1334520080801-1678871067

Anthrax scientist commits suicide as FBI closes in
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and DAVID DISHNEAU (Associated Press Writers)
From Associated Press
August 01, 2008 2:36 AM EDT

WASHINGTON - A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.

The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland, had been told about the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions. The laboratory has been at the center of the FBI's investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people.

Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland. The Times, quoting an unidentified colleague, said the scientist had taken a massive dose of a prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine.
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I hear that Drano, bleach and jet fuel cocktails with cigarettes work pretty good too.