Hearing you have cancer can be devastating and a couple, who both received they were each battling cancer, failed to take the news well.
A Minnesota husband and wife were discovered dead inside their rural home from a murder-suicide on Tuesday.
“Just after 9 a.m., deputies from the Becker County Sheriff’s Office were called to a Detroit Lakes home and found the bodies of Steven Alton Stearns, 45, and Stacy Lynn Stearns, 49, and their two dogs inside,” the sheriff’s office said in a release.
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Stacy’s death a homicide and Steven’s death a suicide.
The couple had just celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary on Sept. 21.
Their joint Facebook page shows them in happy times, dancing together, relaxing on a boat and snuggling with their dogs.
However, that happiness masked an extreme amount of sadness. They were facing some tough challenges after learning Steven was recently diagnosed with lung cancer that was too advanced to treat. Then shortly after they discovered Stacy was suffering from stomach cancer.
Just before their deaths, they posted a message on their Facebook page, which read: “To our loved ones. We chose to leave this world as we lived in it. In love and together. Our only regret is the sorrow to our loved ones. Remember the laughter and happiness We love you. Goodbye.”
Tammy Lawrence, a close friend of the couple, said, “Steven had confided in me about their plan to end their lives. He made me promise not to say anything to anybody. Stacy did not want him to tell me, but he said I can’t look in your eyes and lie to you anymore, and somebody has to be able to tell people why we are going to do what we were going to do.”
Lawrence added, “They wanted to go together with their dogs.”
Steven posted a short will on Facebook just before he called 911 on Tuesday.
The couple had no children together and considered their dogs to be their kids.
“They all left as a family,” Lawrence concluded.
May God Have Mercy on their Souls. Sad but i can understand this. Rayers to the Familys and Friends.
Shut the fuck up coward
I don’t care if demonRATS want to kill themselves, but leave the animals alone!
The friend should’ve called the police and not kept quiet!
And then what, the copes come out and see theyre okay , then when they left they would of still done it.no way possible could someone have prevented this tragedy, peole that really want to commit suicide will eventually do it
And then what, the copes come out and see theyre okay , then when they left they would of still done it.no way possible could someone have prevented this .
That’s a simplistic cunt right there folks👆🏻
All hail Barb the rat Queen.
Ratt
They should have @ least give the pups to the friend!!!!!!!! That’s just wrong!!!!!!!
I agree with Kelly. They could have given the dogs to friends or family. Still, they were too young to die. Maybe he could have gone for other opinions on the lung cancer. There are advanced care clinics and other options sometimes for cancers that are considered beyond treatment. Also, she (the wife) could have tried to get treatment for the stomach cancer.
That’s a simplistic cunt right there
Sick
Tragic in so many ways, also selfish. They left family and friends behind that will never have a chance to say goodbye. A true friend would have spoken up, encouraged them, tried to help and contacted someone. They did not bring themselves into this world and had no authority to end their own lives, that is premeditated murder no matter the circumstances. There is no forgiveness for something you can’t ask forgiveness for after the fact. Those poor dogs must have been so confused and scared. They could have given those pups to a good home to play and be happy until their natural deaths. Cancer is a terrible thing, we all have been through it with someone. It is hard to see someone go down like that. The difference is, everyone in my life that had it, fought for every day and never gave up.
You’re a simplistic twat. Friends and family don’t get a say if your life grow the fuck yo
You simplistic cunts on both sides always screaming freedom for this freedom for that. yet your feeble minds can’t grasp freedom of choice. Most of you will never earn the right to call yourself American. The second someone does something that threatens you or makes you uncomfortable you hang them socially. Only true Americans understand freedom.that includes things that are scary to some of you cowards . I can only hope your children make better Americans than you did.