If you describe someone's behaviour as maniacal, you mean that it is extreme, violent, or very determined, as if the person were insane. adj. (disapproval) He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records..., She is hunched forward over the wheel with a maniacal expression.
It was his way of telling his friend he knew he was dying. It was his way of saying good-bye to him. In May of this year Gary Cooper, 60, died of cancer. Hemingway was too ill to attend the funeral, although he was an honorary pallbearer. Less than two months later, 62-year-old Papa, despondent and depressed by Coop's death, shot and killed himself.
By Matt Schudel By Matt Schudel February 16, 2012. Gary Carter, a Hall of Fame baseball catcher whose timely hitting helped lead the New York Mets to a dramatic World Series championship in 1986, died Feb. 16 at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He had been treated since 2011 for glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.