Alan Bond

It is with sadness I read in the paper of the suicidal death of Diane Bliss, Alan Bond's wife. She had suffered mental illness and severe depression for quite some time. This is a woman who had everything, the best of everything, and a great man for a husband. What had happened that she should have suffered so. Bondie is devastated of course. Alan Bond suffered a series of setbacks, financial losses and many other dramas since this tycoon had the winged keel built on his yacht Australia II and went off to win the America's Cup. Kerry Packer was made wealthier because of the flak against Bondie as he is fondly called, after his wonderful win. Perth is enriched by Bondie's building the Bankwest Tower and preserving the old Palace Hotel at its base, and other buildings and in Mandurah also. That's just a small part of his exploits into progress. Why is it that some people who are rich and famous, become subjected to public abuse at the hands of the media and other rich people? If it was an ordinary older person under this abuse, Elderly Abuse would do something to help the individual. I can't help wondering if they would help Bondie? Is he considered too rich to seek such aid against abuse from the publoic and the media? Was she, Diane Bliss, beyond such help?

From Perth Now: THE wife of former tycoon Alan Bond left a heart-wrenching suicide note to her husband and family, apologising for the stress and pain her struggle with mental illness had caused them during the dark, final months of her life.
Diana Bliss, who took her own life on Saturday after battling months of depression, wrote that she "just couldn't keep going on as she had", her younger brother Peter said yesterday.
After two previous suicide attempts she had undergone electric shock treatment late last year, but "sometimes it seemed to be working and other times it didn't", Mr Bliss said.
She had left notes in the past with a similar tone to the one found at the $4 million home in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe where her body was discovered floating in the swimming pool.
Mr Bliss said the note, in his sister's handwriting, was loving and apologetic.