Couple dies in apparent double-suicide [View All]

By JOAN BARRON
Star-Tribune capital bureau Wednesday, January 05, 2005




CHEYENNE -- A well-known Cheyenne couple, Helen and Ethan Levine, died New Year's Day in an apparent double-suicide.

The Casper Star-Tribune and the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne both received obituaries for the Levines on Tuesday. The couple apparently mailed them from their home at 1055 County Road 110 A W. in Cheyenne before killing themselves.

Ethan Levine, 50, was the former manager of the Frontier Mall in Cheyenne and was a marketing consultant. Helen Levine, 73, was public information officer for the Wyoming Department of Health for 12 years and wrote a column for the Casper Star-Tribune for the last six years.

In a final column submission to the Star-Tribune, also received by mail Tuesday, Helen Levine reminded readers about her support of "death with dignity."

"On January 1, 2005, my husband, Ethan, and I, chose to leave this world together through self-deliverance," Levine wrote. She did not specify how they planned to commit suicide.

Levine's submission went on to tell of their major health problems -- his multiple sclerosis and diabetes, and her heart disease.

"Neither of us could live without the other," she wrote.

She also wrote that the couple had "experienced insults in our employment" and criticized President Bush for the war in Iraq and on other issues.

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