Born in 1990, Brandenn learned to read and write at the age of 18 months. The genius boy, who started his musical career by playing the piano at the age of 3, attracted the attention of his family first and then the world with his superior talents and intelligence.
Brendann was taken to an IQ test at the age of 5, when his family realized that he was not ordinary. Although he left the test unfinished, he achieved an extremely rare score: 178
He managed to finish high school at the age of 10.
Brandenn was even different from other gifted children. While they kept themselves away from various activities, Brandenn also loved camping, swimming, fishing, ice skating, watching cartoons, playing computer games.
As he was passionate about the piano, he started taking music lessons at the University of Colorado when he was just 11 years old.
He even made an album. While he was working on his second album, he decided to become an anesthesiologist and started taking biology lessons.
At the age of 14, when he committed suicide, Brandenn was a child with no depressive symptoms, according to his family.
But one day, when his mother and father went shopping, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. So what drove such a successful and talented child to commit suicide? There is no definite reason for this, but some possibilities come to the fore according to his family and environment.
A deep look into Brandenn’s life revealed that one foot in the adult world and one foot in the children’s world.
It was understood that he was a child trying to survive on an extremely unstable plane with the effect of this situation. E.g; According to the testimony of the principal of the high school where he was educated, Brandenn had spoken much more maturely than an adult in his high school graduation speech, and after he got off the podium, he mingled with the other children and jumped in like his peers. In other words, they had attitudes that passed from adult to childhood in seconds. Brandenn had experienced this not only in high school but also in college.
After Brandenn’s suicide, society’s arrows of criticism were directed at his family.
There were criticisms that the family made mistakes in the child’s social development, but according to the family, they had never forced Brandenn to teach anything, Brandenn acted of his own accord. Apart from his family, his teachers, friends and neighbors were also inexperienced in how to communicate with him.
Brendann committed suicide by shooting the only part of him that distinguishes him. The remaining organs were donated.
According to his family, Brendann had increased sensitivity on some issues. The possibility that he committed suicide in order to donate his organs to people in need is focused on. It is thought that he started taking biology lessons to become an anesthesiologist. Brandenn’s kidneys were donated to two people, his liver to a 22-month-old baby, and his heart to an 11-year-old boy.
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