Record setting Girl Pilot Dies Self inflicted

[JB73]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_us/obit_van_meter

Gunshot to the head

PITTSBURGH - Vicki Van Meter, celebrated for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Crawford County coroner said. She was 26.

Van Meter died Saturday and her body was found in her Meadville home on Sunday.

Her brother said she battled depression and opposed medication, but her family thought she had been dealing with her problems.

Amazing she flew across the country at 11 

[Maverick]

That's a shame. RIP.
 

At the time of her record flights I had the impression that it was her parent(s) that had the majority of interest in seem it happen, I could be wrong about that.

[AquaShrimp]

There shouldn't be such a stigma against medication and therapy in this country.  If an amazing woman like her can succumb to mental illness, then thats all the more reason to try and combat it.