Darwin awards are posthumously bestowed on individuals who through single-minded self-sacrifice, have done the most to remove themselves from the human gene pool.
Nominees have included:
[Hickory Daily Record] Ken XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, 47,accidentally
shot himself to death when, awakened by the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith &Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.
Ring UP a Ding-a-Ling!!! If he slept with his Gun Under his pillow he would have found the phone! XO Lynn32A
I think he was just suicidal . Might had been a Monday and he did'nt want to wake up and go to work.