Toothache driven to suicide

41-year-old Brit, backed by successful work as a model, recently committed suicide. The reason that prompted him to decide on voluntary withdrawal from life, become long-term toothaches.

Dorian Thompson has worked as a model, and then the artistic director, the Japanese fashion company. Some time ago he was the victim Ehlers Danlos syndrome,   (giperelastichnost skin syndrome Chernogubova Ehlers-Danlos-). It causes an increase in the elasticity of muscle and joint tissue.

As it became known during the trial over the suicide, Dorian for six years suffered from severe pains in every (!) Tooth. Man himself believed that the reason for this was a visit to the dentist. Told the court his friend Ross Illingworth, unhappy almost could not sleep, his food had been violated, as the process of eating too hurt him.

"He had an incredible, some otherworldly torment, his jaw literally broke up on toothache - Said Illingworth. - And this pain has steadily increased. The last few years of his life he took morphine. But then so simply could not go on. I lost my best friend, but I understand why he did it. "

Ross and Dorian were friends for 10 years. Together they collected evidence, which had to show that the error led to the development dentist Ehlers Danlos syndrome, . December 7 last year, Illingworth arrived at a friend's apartment, but found him hanged there. Earlier, Dorian and I tried to commit suicide by taking a loading dose of pills.

"He was a very social person, the real soul of the company - explained Ross. - Working model, and then the recruiter, drove him to many people, and Dorian enjoyed socializing. He knew how to make friends, appreciate life in all its manifestations. But recent years He had as much pain as hardly anyone could imagine. "

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