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Re: The short happy life of Brendenn Bremmer
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2014, 10:21:50 PM »
American musical prodigy commits suicide aged 14
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
By Philip Sherwell in Washington
12:01AM GMT 20 Mar 2005


At just 18 months, Brandenn Bremmer taught himself to read, reciting the alphabet to his mother. By three, he was playing the piano and at 11, he started courses at Colorado State University. Newspaper articles in his native Nebraska marvelled at his remarkable IQ.

Last week, however, the "boy genius" apparently committed suicide at the age of 14, his body found at his home with a gunshot wound to the head.

The death of the musical prodigy, who had just completed a second CD of his own compositions, has focused attention on the pressures on precocious young talents.

Yet despite his hyperintelligence, Brandenn also enjoyed camping, swimming, fishing, skating, watching cartoons and playing computer games - like "normal" teenage boys the world over.

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Re: The short happy life of Brendenn Bremmer
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2014, 10:23:13 PM »
His death seemed to come out of the blue and his grief-stricken mother, Patti, insists that her son was a happy, popular boy, denying that she and her husband, Martin, were pushy parents. "We never pushed Brandenn. He made his own choices. He taught himself to read. If anything, we tried to hold him back a little," she said.

"So many people will want to say he was maladjusted or not socially adjusted but that's just not so at all. It makes me mad. People have to understand that these kids are so much more intelligent than they are."

What prompted Brandenn to take his own life seems set to remain a mystery. He left no suicide note and, Mrs Brenner says, showed no sign of depression before she and her husband found his body when they came home from buying groceries in Venango, Nebraska.

Mrs Bremmer, who says that her son had a strong spiritual side, believes that he may have committed suicide in order to donate his organs. He had often said that he would like others to benefit from them if he died.

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Re: The short happy life of Brendenn Bremmer
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2014, 10:24:13 PM »
"He had this excessive need to help people and teach people. He was so connected with the spiritual world, we felt he could hear people's needs and desires and their cries," said Mrs Bremmer, who writes mystery books in a part of America renowned for its unconventional New Age philosophies.

"We just felt like something touched him that day and he knew he had to leave. He left so he could save those people."

On the night he died, Brandenn's liver was donated to a 22-month-old child, his heart to an 11-year-old boy and his kidneys to two other patients.

Brandenn was reserved, but not withdrawn, and played with children of his own age in addition to studying physics with adults 10 years older than himself, according to tutors at Colorado State. He recently started biology courses after saying that he wanted to become an anaesthesiologist.

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Re: The short happy life of Brendenn Bremmer
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2014, 10:25:34 PM »
"He wasn't just talented, he was a really nice young man," said David Wohl, one of his teachers. Brian Jones, a physics professor, previously described him as "a real bright-eyed kid" who "dreams big, which is great".

His favourite composers were Mozart and Beethoven, although his new CD was said to owe more to the style of Yanni, the flamboyant Greek pianist. Janet Landreth, his music professor at CSU, said that he had a remarkable ear. "It's really an adventure exploring the possibilities for him," she once said.

But Brandenn also pursued the same sort of hobbies and interests as other boys of his age. For his high school graduation picture, he darkened his hair, wore round wire-rimmed spectacles and put on a red cape to look like his favourite character, Harry Potter.

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Re: The short happy life of Brendenn Bremmer
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2014, 10:26:36 PM »
He only once sat an IQ test, in 1996, but refused to finish it, scoring a partial 178. One in a million people have an IQ of 180 or above.

Mrs Bremmer told the New York Times that Brandenn "had no chronological age. He was comfortable with a baby and he was comfortable with someone 90 years old."

She said that she knew he was special from the moment he was born, when doctors struggled to find a pulse.

"Things were different right from then," she said. "It's almost like my baby died and an angel took his place."

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