Thank you! This isn't fiction and the only made-up part is that Randy's real name wasn't Randy. The way he ended his life was so strange. The only thing I can think, since I wasn't there, was that he had weighted himself down somehow, that he wouldn't be able to remove, because IMO, even if one wants to die, I think our natural will for survival would force us to the surface to breathe in some air.

I was a bit concerned once at another, earlier time when we were little, and I was looking for him, and I got near where he happened to be and I heard him talking to himself, crying and saying things like, "Just wait... I'll show her," which I thought must've been a referral to his mother. His dad was a jolly guy who never got mad, but his mom was a real meanie.

His death, some said, had to do with the fact his wife (who I never met) had left him. I think his life was really troubled somehow by the way things were in his home life growing up.