Placerville man delivers obituary, then commits suicide

A Placerville man apparently wrote and delivered his own obituary to the Mountain Democrat newspaper on Tuesday – then hanged himself from a local bridge.

"An explanation might be in order," Allan Leo Peters II wrote in a suicide note that was posted, in part, on the newspaper's Web site Wednesday.

"Yes, I have hanged myself (At least I hope I did). … I have had emphysema for the past few years, and lately it has been really hard to struggle to even catch a breath. I really cannot convey to you how very hard it was even to try to take a very deep breath. … My life has been drastically altered in the past few years, and I believe in euthanasia."

Peters' body was found shortly after 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, hanging from the end of a yellow rope tied to an old concrete bridge on Forni Road, said Lt. Bryan Golmitz of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.