The sportswriter who blogged his suicide

Martin Manley included photos throughout the website he built to explain his decision to commit suicide. He wrote: "Not only (do I) look 60, I think 60. I act 60... I am 60 ... ! I'll never have to see myself at 70 or 80 -- and that's a good thing."

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Scenes from a life cut short

Martin Manley hated waking up early, but on his 60th birthday he did -- or more likely, never went to sleep the night before.