Charlene, handling all the familiy’s financial matters, did not tell her husband that she hadn’t paid the mortgage in 42 months. The mortgage company then decided to foreclose on their home. An hour and a half before the home was to go on auction, she faxed the company: ‘By the time you foreclose on my house, I’ll be dead. I hope you’re more compassionate with my husband and son than you were with me.’ When the notified police officers arrived at Balderrama’s house, they found she had shot her three beloved cats and then herself with her husband’s rifle. Papers left on the table revealed months of planning. She had picked out her funeral home, laid out the insurance policy and left a note for her husband saying: ‘Pay off the house with the insurance money.’ – The complete lexicon of crisis related suicides, Vol. I, 2008-2013, Richard Sluijs