Assisted suicide

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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California
My brother and I had been estrangedfrom my father for a number of years when my father developed Lou Gerrigs disease. He later shot himself. He had recieved an estate from my grandmother, and had promised monies from that estate to my borther and myself. However, we never saw any of it. We were excluded from his trust.

After my fathers death, we met the executor and also benificiary of his estate, my father's "fishing buddy". In a conversation he told us that our father had asked him to find us, but that he couldn't. As a result we never knew of our father's illness. However, We found this quite surprising since he had not trouble locating us in the phone book after my father's death. When our father was creamated the ashes were scattered in the Ocean by boat. I was denied access to the boat and my father's funeral by the executor.

The second statement made by the executor and benificiary stunned me and is the reason for my question. He stated that my father had told him that he had not wanted to be a burden on anyone and he wanted to end his life "while he could still pull the trigger". The executor told us that he had given my father the gun by which he shot himself. This seems to me to be a very large conflict of interest. I feel that this man kept us from contact with our father and provided the means to his death, then benifited from it by inheriting his entire estate.

Was it legal for him to provide my father with a gun when, by his own confession to my brother and myself, he knew his intention was to shoot himself?