Eric died a year-and-a-half ago at the age of 33 by suicide.

I am writing this letter because I wanted to tell you about my nephew, Eric Rodriguez. Eric died a year-and-a-half ago at the age of 33 by suicide. It was 2007 when Eric took Propecia. As he later told his parents, he took it for a few months, but stopped because the side effects scared him. He had read the warning label in 2007 that sexual side effects could occur while he was taking the medication, but he expected that they would disappear once he stopped. However, the symptoms did not disappear. Instead they became worse, and he experienced other symptoms that the label did not address… He only told his parents about 10 months before he died because he could no longer hide it from them.

—Letter to the FDA in support of the PFS Foundation’s Citizen Petition: October 4, 2017