Jackson Jambalaya

I am worried about DonnerK. Melton appears to be her grassy knoll gunman.

I have often wondered if Frank Melton took his own life.
I remember reading about his vet telling him that Abby needed to be put down, and Melton told him that she would die at home.
Did the vet provide Melton with a drug necessary to euthanize Abby at home?
The family would not allow Melton's cause of death to be released, making me wonder if he took his own life shortly after Abby died.
I suppose we'll never know.

I've also wondered if Melton and Ladd had a little crush on each other. I suppose we'll never know that either.

He died of a heart problem. I know it for a fact.

Yes, he was found non-responsive when the EMT arrived, but after CPR he was revived and later died at St. D.

All of this occurred not long after the polls closed and showed that he had lost.
Perhaps his heart was already broken over losing Abby and losing the race just took its toll.

I suppose he didn't need to take his own life since his lifestyle and severely damaged heart had his days numbered.
But, I still found it unusual that no cause of death was released.
Maybe this happens more than I realize.

I absolutely, positively cannot understand why this lady refuses to leave well enough alone. Mr. Melton is gone, God rest his soul. I get that she loathed him. I get that she "didn't understand him." But...let it go!

A short narration from an episode of Twilight Zone- "One life, furnished in early poverty"

"It's rather bittersweet how we spend so much time trying to justify ourselves to the shadows of those who are long gone. And even if they were alive, would they remember? Would they recall what they had said or done that made you spend the rest of your life proving yourself?

And if you could go back, wouldn't you learn that you were always the master of your fate?
And if you learned that great truth, wouldn't it free you of a useless burden?"

About that suicide/broken heart/whatever you want to call it thing, my take is that that is hogwash. Now, maybe he saw the writing on the wall and stopped taking his medication, but I wouldn't classify that as taking his own life. Exacerbating his death, to be sure, but I wouldn't call it suicide.

But yeah, Donna needs to let it go. It's funny, I got into the JFP because it didn't pull punches on Melton when he was mayor, as opposed to how the CL treated him (at first, at least). But after that fizzled out I realized it was just crap. I haven't read it in a couple of years. I just don't care about a bunch of all that "artistic", unkempt beard, messy hair, thrift store, Converse All Star, ratty ass, not-having-a-real-job Fondren crap. They can have it. And what's with all that weird shit those guys around there put in their earlobes now? Bunch of pansies.

Donna needs to focus her energies on vamping up her vastly declining readership. But, I doubt that is possible, I mean people have gotten tired of the one-sided interview and standpoint.....no matter what the topic is!

Donner K is beyond redemption, and not worth further attention. We'll know soon enough when the JFP ceases to publish because she's run it into the ground.

I'm more interested in the statement that the cause of death was not "released". Aren't death certificates public records? The operative word being "public"? He had refused a heart transplant, so his heart was so bad the end was in the foreseeable future, therefore his death was no surprise. Isn't his wife a cardiologist in Texas?

The symptoms he displayed when the paramedics arrived were consistent with heart failure.

Get your facts straight. I posted it a year ago:

Death certificate

Hope they counted the silverware after she left, with Christmas and tax time and all that kind of stuff in the air.......

Knock it off. They are not silver or jewel thieves. You are thinking of the shrink in NE Jackson.