I forgot to include this question in my last post --- did Bill commit suicide? I've been exchanging e-mails with Randy Washburne --- the guy who built the cabin at burnett bay, and he thinks that's how bill's life ended but can't remember exactly where he heard that. I'd read bill had a .22 he used for venison (there's an over-abundance of deer on many islands here, and they are an introduced species on the charlottes that have damaged the diversity of plant life there). Not that suicide would necessarily be something untoward, in my opinion a quick decisive end may be a better quality option than a long, drawn out period of increasing pain and suffering and infirmity in unfamiliar surroundings.