The Winner
Stuart Donnelly died last week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10619064
Stuart Donnelly’s life was transformed by winning £1.9 million in a U.K. lottery at the age of 17, and now at 29 he is dead. We don’t seem to be informed as to how he died so we guess it may be his own choice. Donnelly won the lottery money in 1997. To avoid the people camping outside his house and the constant hassling from people for money, he and his ailing father moved to the Scottish countryside. When his father died two years later he lived alone for the next ten years. Stuart Donnelly’s social networking site on Bebo, listed his activities as: “Sleeping, watching TV, listening to music, surfing the net. Basically, anything that involves not leaving the house.” So Stuart became a person who avoided interactions with others.
It has been said that his self-imposed isolation and unhappiness was because he had so much money. I would say that his unhappiness was more a result of the media-generated notoriety that lead to the expectations of others that they could have some of it and the way they pursued him for a slice of the cake.