According to Isabel Allende Bussi—the daughter of Salvador Allende and currently a member of the Senate of Chile—the Allende family has long accepted that the former president shot himself, telling the BBC that: "The report conclusions are consistent with what we already believed. When faced with extreme circumstances, he made the decision of taking his own life, instead of being humiliated." Carlos Altamirano, who was close to Allende, recalls that prior to the coup Allende would have dismissed Altamirano's suggestion that in case of a coup to seek refuge in a loyalist regiment and fight back from there. In the words of Altamirano Allende also did not want "to do as so many dictators and presidents of Latin America, that is to grab a briefcase full of money and take a plane out the country". Allende was an admirer of José Manuel Balmaceda, a Chilean president who died by suicide in face of his defeat in the Chilean Civil War of 1891. According to Altamirano, Allende was "obsessed with the attitude of Balmaceda". According to Orlando Sáenz who met Allende shorty before the coup Allende would have foretold his death by saying "touch me, I'm made of statue flesh".