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 reveals brother Carter's suicide led him to seek out a job where he confronts death daily and that he and mom Gloria Vanderbilt stopped celebrating Christmas in the wake of his death. 1  Anderson Cooper talks about the 1988 suicide of his 23-year-old brother Carter Cooper in an emotional new interview. Carter jumped off the balcony of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt's apartment while she stood nearby trying to talk him off the ledge.