A shadowy online company selling suicide kits recently claimed its first confirmed victim. Winston Ross talks exclusively with the entrepreneur behind it: a grieving 91-year-old woman.
The paramedics who showed up to Nick Klonoski's house on Highland Drive four months ago discovered the 29-year-old's lifeless body, covered up to the neck by a blanket. It was his brother Jake, detectives learned, who'd found Nick lying in his bed less than an hour beforehand, a clear plastic bag over his head, and a plastic tube running from the bag to an orange metal helium tank. Next to the tank was a white box, decorated with a butterfly, the box the plastic bag and tube had arrived in the mail in, with a book titled Final Exit inside.
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"Is it the book and the kit?" asked the first police officers to arrive on the scene.
The paramedics who showed up to Nick Klonoski's house on Highland Drive four months ago discovered the 29-year-old's lifeless body, covered up to the neck by a blanket. It was his brother Jake, detectives learned, who'd found Nick lying in his bed less than an hour beforehand, a clear plastic bag over his head, and a plastic tube running from the bag to an orange metal helium tank. Next to the tank was a white box, decorated with a butterfly, the box the plastic bag and tube had arrived in the mail in, with a book titled Final Exit inside.
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"Is it the book and the kit?" asked the first police officers to arrive on the scene.
- 4/28/2011
- by Winston Ross
- The Daily Beast
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