FALL FROM POWER - SUICIDE OF AN EXECUTIVE

An influential corporate executive apparently killed himself and two o thers when faced with public exposure and perhaps imprisonment for ill egal use of his corporate position to raise money for political and ch aritable causes he favored. Clinical and psychological descriptions of such cases are rare. Because an extensive psychological autopsy enabl ed a detailed description of this case, it is presented with the aim o f shedding light on a type of suicide that needs to be understood.