Gossip Literally Destroyed A Family

Personal disaster that can be caused by gossip:

In a small town in North Dakota there was a young family. They were happy, even though the mother had not been entirely well since the birth of their second baby. But everyone in town knew there was warmth there because of the way they treated each other.

Then one day the town gossip started a rumor that the husband was being unfaithful. It wasn’t true, but the story spread. Eventually it reached the ears of the young wife.

It must have been more than she could bear. That night when the husband came home, he knew something was wrong. No one greeted him, and the whole house was silent. Down in the basement he found the three of them, hanging from a beam. In despair, the sick young mother had taken the lives of her two children and then her own.