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.
Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt will never have âclosureâ over suicide of brother and son, Carter Cooper. Anderson Cooper and his mom Gloria Vanderbilt revealed they'll never feel closure over the death of Carter Cooper. In 1988, Carter, the brother of Anderson and youngest son of Gloria, committed suicide at age 23 by jumping off the 14th-floor balcony of his mother's Manhattan apartment.