Rock Fan Stabs Himself to Death After Developing Tinnitus
Click to take a sound test: "If you can't hear any of the high frequencies played back during this test, don't blame your speakers too quickly. Unlike low frequencies, high frequencies are easily reproduced, even with cheap speakers. Assuming your sound card is not prone to aliasing (please refer to the comment below), the weakest components in this test are your ears."
A father of two who developed tinnitus after forgetting to take his earplugs to a Them Crooked Vultures gig, killed himself after being unable to sleep for three months, a court heard this week.
Robert McIndoe, 52, became increasingly desperate after he failed to find medical treatment and even considered permanently deafening himself by having his auditory nerve cut, the Daily Mail reported.
“When it first happened he wasn’t too bothered about it because he thought it would subside, and the friend he had been with also had ringing in his ears that day,” his wife Shirley McIndoe told the inquest.
“It was awful, he looked terrible, and he just felt so bad all the time,” she continued, “He was desperate that it was never going to change – he didn’t know if he could live like this.”
