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I'm going to post my story, and I want to hear whether people think the Seller should tell the buyer what happened.

So I sold a condo I owned in 2006 to this guy who moved in and lived there for a little under a year. In actual fact he didn't live there much at all because he was working in Africa most of the time. Now, they guy came home and decided he was going to sell this condo, and strangely enough, he used one of the realtors I get a lot of referrals for and he ended up using my firm for the sale of the property. I met with the guy and signed papers a couple of weeks before possession. (Everything seemed fine, but we actually had to rebook once because the guy was going to the hospital because he was having chest pains)

Then about four days before closing I get a call from the Realtor telling me this guy had committed suicide in the unit, and did something have to be said to the purchaser. The Realtor told me that this guy was quite depressed about his health (heart problems) and it was assumed he killed himself as a result. I wanted to look into things, and apparently the guy died in a massive pool of blood on the kitchen floor, but there was no suicide note and no weapon evideent. Because of the circumstances, there was an autopsy done, and it turns out that the guy was neither murdered, nor did he commit suicide. He had picked up some sort of nasty parasite in Africa (some kind of worm or something, I didn't get the complete deatails) which caused a massive internal hemmorhage, which led to this guy bleeding to death on the floor of his kitchen. Now this parasite was non-communicable at this point. The question being, ethically, should the Realtor have an oblgation to go into the details with a Purchaser, or even advise the Purchaser of the death?