Elderly Couple Makes Ocean Suicide Attempt

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SEASIDE PARK, N.J. - An elderly couple tied themselves together back-to-back with speaker wire and walked into the ocean in a suicide attempt, but the husband survived, authorities said.



Jacqueline Sindlinger, 72, and Norman Sindlinger, 74, of Brick Township, wrote out a suicide note, then drove to the beach early Wednesday, lashed themselves together and plunged into the ocean.


The water was 39 degrees, with wind-whipped swells up to 8 feet high.


A fisherman found the couple unconscious at the water's edge, and alerted authorities.


A police officer used CPR and an automatic defibrillator to resuscitate Norman Sindlinger. He was listed in critical condition Thursday.


His wife died, apparently of hypothermia, authorities said. It was unclear how long they had been in the water.


A note found in their home "reflected that they were depressed," said Robert Gasser, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.


"It's just a very sad event, that people's lives would come to this point," said Police Chief William Beining.

I could never do that its too sad!