A 53 year old Massachusetts woman killed herself after faxing her mortgage company that she was going to do so. Her family home was due to be foreclosed upon later that afternoon, and in a last gasp desperate attempt to save the home, she committed suicide.

This is a tragic story, no doubt about it, but the foreclosure of the home was the catalyst, not the reason. When you dissect the situation, the home was being foreclosed upon, but she never told her husband that she had stopped paying the mortgage  42 months earlier.

No I want to respect the dead, but come on. This is a story of a wife failing to communicate with her family and hours before they are to be kicked out of the home she commits suicide. The foreclosure will get the headlines, but the reality is she did not want to face the lies that built up to it.

My heart goes out to her family, this is a tragedy. But this is not primarily a situation where the foreclosure caused the suicide. The lenders gave her 42 months of not paying her mortgage. This is a person who had other more serious issues in her life.

A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

Police said that Carlene Balderrama used her husband’s high-powered rifle to kill herself Tuesday afternoon, shortly after faxing the letter at 2:30 p.m.

The mortgage company called police, who found Balderrama’s body at 3:30 p.m. The auction was scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and interested buyers arrived at the property in Taunton, about 35 miles south of Boston, while Balderrama’s body was still inside, according to Taunton Police Chief Raymond O’Berg.

Police did not immediately release the name of the mortgage company. O’Berg said Balderrama’s fax read, in part, “By the time you foreclose on my house I’ll be dead.”

O’Berg also said a suicide note found next to Balderrama told her husband, John, and 24-year-old son to “take the (life) insurance money and pay for the house.” via ajc.com.

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