ORANGE BEACH, Alabama – June 23 – Charter boat captain Allen Kruse was known as “Rookie” to all his friends. He had fished the Alabama gulf coast waters for 26 years.
We spoke to him just last month, three weeks after the gusher in the gulf started changing everyone’s way of life. He ended his life with a single gunshot on board the boat he loved. 

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/orange-beach-charter-boat-captain-death/899417/Jun-23-2010_7-36-pm/

from my original post approximately a month ago with some deletions:

[Big Oil has robbed us of so much, we're not even close to realizing the true costs...

Can I ever watch the movie's bayou segment again without thinking, "Lt. Dan can't jump in that water," in the memorable scene in which Gary Senise finally comes to terms with his own tragic loss: He's a Vietnam veteran and a double-amputee.
We're back to an earlier, darker scene (like an inescapable Pottersville, from It's a Wonderful Life) in which Gary Senise, enraged by his loss, wrestles Gump to the hospital floor between their beds, and, after yelling at an uncomprehending Gump that he was supposed to die in Vietnam, he sits up, refusing Gump's help, and in the silence that follows states his own profoundly sad question, "What am I gonna do now?"

I think every shrimper, every widow, every oil-worker and every sea-loving bayou-dwelling person has asked themselves that same question. You watch, God forbid, over the next few years as families self-destruct, and suicide rates spike along the Gulf Coast... Like the tide of veteran's suicides outpacing the Gulf War's fatalities last year, it will begin to exact its own toll. It's enough to make anyone cry; in fact, it already has.]