RIIIIIIIGHT...I MAY BE IGNORANT, BUT I 'M NOT STUPID!

I heard about this, and had to look into it further. After looking at this, I think we have got a whole bunch of ignorance in play here.

I'll try to boil it down for y'all.

It seems that this fellow had a heart transplant back in 1995. The transplanted heart had come from a fellow that had killed himself, and the translpantee ended up killing himself. But the plot is much more thicker than that.

You can see the whole article here, but I have put the whole thing on this post...I will comment as it rocks along.



HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No foul play was suspected in 69-year-old Sonny Graham's death at his Vidalia, Ga., home, investigators said. He was found Tuesday in a utility building in his backyard with a single shotgun wound to the throat, said Greg Harvey, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Okay, who shoots theirself in the throat if they are trying to commit suicide? Everybody knows that you shoot the temple, or eat the gun. A shot to the throat just makes you die like a stuck hog...

Graham, who was director of the Heritage golf tournament at Sea Pines from 1979 to 1983, was on the verge of congestive heart failure in 1995 when he got a call that a heart was available in Charleston. That heart was from Terry Cottle, 33, who had shot himself, Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad said.

Terry Cottle "shot himself"...sure...

Grateful for his new heart, Graham began writing letters to the donor's family to thank them. In January 1997, Graham met his donor's widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charleston. "I felt like I had known her for years," Graham told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet for a story in 2006. "I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I just stared." In 2001, Graham bought a home for Cottle and her four children in Vidalia. Three years later, they were married after Graham retired from his job as a plant manager for Hargray Communications in Hilton Head.

Okay, so the old transplant dude (30 years her senior) bought a house for a gal, and her 4 kids. She was obviously attracted to the old fart. I mean, what's 30 years between "soul mates?" She had 4 children. Now, the article doesn't specify how many Daddies were involved, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. If they all came from her first suicidal husband, I apologize for the implication.

From their previous marriages, the couple had six children and six grandchildren scattered across South Carolina and Georgia. Cheryl Graham, now 39, has worked at several hospices in Vidalia. A telephone message left Sunday at a listing for Cheryl and Sonny Graham in Vidalia was not immediately returned.

So Cheryl is now 39 years old. Her first husband shot himself. Her second husband (that was obviously wealthy enough to get a heart transplant, and buy her a house) shot himself. Man, this chick has had some bad luck! She works with hospice patients. Now, that is Gods' work. But there is something about "death" that is following this chick around.

I don't want to ever cast aspersions on somebody, but this is just too odd. The article says that there is "no foul play suspected." Come on...expect some "foul play" boys...you're not stupid. Something is up with this chick.

Sonny Graham's friends said he would be remembered for his willingness to help people. "Any time someone had a problem, the first reaction was, 'Call Sonny Graham,' " said Bill Carson, Graham's friend for more than 40 years. "It didn't matter whether you had a flat tire on the side of the road or your washing machine didn't work. He didn't even have to know you to help you."

Well...Rest In Peace Sonny...