Within the defined, common "type" of the narcissistic mass-murderer and torturer, the uncanny parallelism between Obama and the Roman Emperor Nero (37-68 AD), has been widely noted. But fewer stop to consider both men's proneness to suicide. (Compare also the suicide of Adolf Hitler.) ... Very early in life-or rather, even earlier-both Nero and Obama were guilty of a disastrously wrong choice of mother.