Right before he shot himself, he called a neighbor and one of their sons. Her husband's suicide came out of nowhere, since she always thought of him as a strong-willed individual who persevered. The two left the gray skies of Columbus, Ohio, after 23 years and retired here in 2003. 'It's really hard two years later, it still seems like it happened yesterday, and (yet) that it happened forever ago.' It's been exactly two years, three months and 28 days since her husband committed suicide. Schwartz is telling her husband's story on a recent May afternoon. 'And he said, 'I can't do this,' and I said, 'Well, why don't you try it for a couple days?' 'The day that we went there for the first time, it almost looked like he was getting shock treatment,' she says. He'd previously endured coronary artery bypass surgery, and the new therapy consisted of applying pressure to his heart to expand the blood vessels.
He was receiving care for a heart condition. Judy Schwartz recalls her husband's last visit to the cardiologist.
