Radar Online is an entertainment site. It is not a news site. Any "news" you may find on there is about as real as my trillion-dollar inheritance. All you have to do is go to their home page and see just how nonsensical some of the other "headlines" are.
Don't believe everything you see on the Internet, folks.
And also don't believe anything you read in the gutter press, such as the National Enquirer.
I can't recall, but I thought I had seen one of those supermarket tabloids that had a (grainy) photo of a sad-looking Bob Barker with a giant headline similar to that of the Radar Online site.
All, naturally, to gain your attention.
Not that Bob is necessarily a front-and-center celebrity to most of the rest of the world (i.e., non-game show/non-TPiR fans), but enough know of him/remember him that any headline -- and this certainly isn't the first one, nor will it be the last -- that trumpets out that he is either terminally ill, had a fall in his home or some public place, made a comment that he wants to die, etc., or has something to do with his past legal issues, association with animal rights groups (pro or con) or time with TPiR (there have been a few of those, too) ... is bound to get your attention. This latest headline -- the one claiming that Barker make some remark about wanting to die after an emotional cemetery visit to Dorothy Jo's gravesite -- certainly did. And they will continue to do so as long as people continue to go to these websites and read these articles/magazines, etc., and believe they are undeniably true.
I get that sometimes, when people grow old and have outlived their spouse, sometimes for many years (as in Barker's case, as Dorothy Jo died in 1981, some 36 years ago as this thread is active), they get depressed and sometimes to the point where they want to die, and even say as much. I had a beloved neighbor who repeatedly made similar remarks to what Bob supposedly said after her husband passed (and sadly, she died, just 11 months after the husband passed). And I think we can all agree that Bob misses his beloved wife, Dorothy Jo.
At best, though, this was a comment that was taken out of context. But more likely this was completely exaggerated, false and blown out of proportion.
I'd suggest ignoring the Radar Online story as BS.
Brian