Later Life and Death
Flanders continued working in telemovies in the early 1990s, but was suffering from depression, particularly after his 1992 divorce from his second wife, health issues with back pain from a road accident and financial problems with his ranch in northern California.
He took his own life by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on February 22, 1995 in Denny, California.
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