This is very tragic, yet I happen to know someone whose best friend was killed by her husband (along with her parents) before he killed himself. It happened on the same day the house was going into foreclosure. My thought was also the same.........why take the entire family with you?
One of our friends also took his own life last year for the same reason.....finances. I don't get it. Its scary what the stress of life can do to people you know and love and think they are completely mentally stable.