David Etchello Beech died Dec, 1983

"Cause of death: Traumatic decapitation - Suicide."
- Death Certificate of David Beech

Later, the Inquest was also told how he read and reread an Exclusive Brethren text on the evils of smoking by former Brethren leader James Taylor. This stated that smoking "... brings in what smoke is -- darkness and blackness. It is filthy and against the spirit of God".

"He said how wicked he was and how he wished he had never smoked. The poor man was driven to desperation."
- The Shortos

Eventually his mounting depression became too much:

"... late one night he drove to the railway line behind his old home in Gatley where he and his wife had raised their children and laid his head on the rail."

The note he left in his car directed the police to us and I had to identify his battered body."
- The Shortos

David Beech took his own life by laying his head on a railway line. The Death Certificate records:

Death Certificate of David Etchello Beech
Registered: Stockport
Date and place of death: December 1st, 1983, Railway line, Gatley
Cause of death: Traumatic decapitation - Suicide.

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