Bill Sparkman

Bill Sparkman was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer of the lymphatic system. It was in Stage 3. He was prescribed six sessions of chemotherapy, which started about a year ago and would continue for several months but it "recurred."

Suicide is final, you can't take it back. If you know someone is planning suicide don't sit on that information - tell someone.

Bill Sparkman was a hard working, single parent, who had cancer. To make ends meet, he went back to school for the nine years and took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. Now he's dead.

Proving that the "Great Society" still has a long way to go to achieve its goals, the body of part-time census worker and teacher Bill Sparkman was found hanged from a tree in eastern Kentucky, the word "fed" written on his chest, on September 12.