THIRTY-eight-year-old Jeewan Seenauth, aka Teddy, of Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara, was found dead yesterday morning at his home in a makeshift coffin that he had allegedly built.

Seenauth had reportedly been planning this event for a very long while, but his family members never thought he had really meant it. They were shocked and incredulous when Seenauth made good on his promise.

This publication visited the man’s home to find no one there, but a relative who arrived just as this reporter was going to speak with Senauth’s neighbours said Seenauth’s relatives had never thought he would make good on his threat because he had always been a very loving and caring person whom nobody would associate with harbouring thoughts of committing suicide.

“When I hear this man kill heself and was into some coffin he (had) made, I could not have believe it. Because me and this man use to go out on a usual basis and have a drink; we would even chat and laugh and so! I very shocked about this. I don’t know if he and anyone had any problem, because usually he would tell me those things,” the relative said.

Seenauth’s neighbours also described him as a very easygoing man who was always willing to do anything asked of him. They said they had heard when he was constructing “something”, but they had no idea it was a coffin he had been constructing. They deemed his death a great shock to them.

“We don’t know how and why he did this thing; if he was having problems…. There is no need for him to do such. I want to know where God was when the devil made this man do this thing,” one neighbour said.

When contacted, a senior police officer from that division said all he could say at the moment was that Seenauth had been found dead in a coffin he had made, and that the police are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

This publication will bring more updates of this gruesome story as details emerge from the investigation.

(By Asif Hakim)