Famous suicides

Lawrence1895 · 28-01-2012 08:01PM

Dissection's Jon Nodtveidt is on the list...well...he surely knew, what he did...

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-01-2012 08:05PM

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

Bud Dwyer, it's as real as fuçk.

I remember in the Kurt Cobain Biography 'Heavier than Heaven' it saying that Cobain got hold of the Budd Dwyer tape and would watch it over and over again obsessively. Sad really..

M cebee · 28-01-2012 08:11PM

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

im invisible wrote: »

some other interesting ones

Apparently a big part of the reason why Turing killed himself was the "hormone treatment" he was receiving as part of his sentence for being as gay as Christmas. He was growing a nice big set of double Ds. A horrific way for anyone to go, but one of history's true crimes by virtue of the fact that he was such a genius and did his country and the world such a service in his cracking of the Enigma code.

I think the treatment affected his mental skills as well
according to the recent documentary

jammstarr · 28-01-2012 08:17PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I remember in the Kurt Cobain Biography 'Heavier than Heaven' it saying that Cobain got hold of the Budd Dwyer tape and would watch it over and over again obsessively. Sad really..

I've watched that clip more than once. The amount of death footage online is scary.

Local-womanizer · 28-01-2012 08:22PM

Anybody see the documentary "The Bridge"?

Watched it the other night and found it fascinating. It gives a great insight into the minds of those willing to end their lives, not to mention how their families deal with their suicides.

It opened my eyes to suicide and what people truly go through and the hopelessness their loved ones feel.

jammstarr · 28-01-2012 08:24PM

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Anybody see the documentary "The Bridge"?

Watched it the other night and found it fascinating. It gives a great insight into the minds of those willing to end their lives, not to mention how their families deal with their suicides.

It opened my eyes to suicide and what people truly go through and the hopelessness their loved ones feel.

Found it on youtube - cheers for the suggestion.

up for anything · 28-01-2012 08:38PM

Looking through that list I came across this scumbag whose nephew committed suicide. Family or strangers, boys or girls, it didn't seem to make much difference to him. :mad:

El Guapo! · 28-01-2012 08:58PM

Chris Benoit was on that list too. I remember how shocked I was when I heard that news. Especially since it was a murder-suicide.

biko · 28-01-2012 09:02PM

Most famous? Socrates drinking hemlock, but I guess you whippersnappers are too young to remember.

Sindri · 28-01-2012 09:09PM

biko wrote: »

Most famous? Socrates drinking hemlock, but I guess you whippersnappers are too young to remember.

Most famous, either Jesus or Judas. Or definitely Dumbledore.

mikemac1 · 28-01-2012 09:24PM

Friends of Emmet are a Dublin band based in LA

Coming Apart is a great song and about a young man who jumped off the bridge and survived.
The odds of surviving that fall and the freezing water are tiny but it happens sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAP8ns6mQg

Lyrics are fantastic

Mods I know this isn't music forum but I think it's appropriate for the thread

Deus Ex Machina · 28-01-2012 09:43PM

biko wrote: »

Most famous? Socrates drinking hemlock, but I guess you whippersnappers are too young to remember.

Does that really count, given the fact that he was setenced to do so for "corrupting" the youth?

goose2005 · 28-01-2012 10:12PM

Wikipedia page wrote:

You can help by expanding it

Hope some famous person doesn't read that...

Zebra3 · 28-01-2012 10:51PM

Adolf Hitler (1985); Austrian-born, Nazi Germany dictator, it's been speculated that he died by shooting himself in the mouth to avoid capture by the Mossad in Argentina.[98]

:pac::pac::pac:

The Princess Bride · 28-01-2012 11:00PM

Do you really think these people committed suicide because they were famous?

Or is there a chance it was because they were troubled?

They may have been famous,but famous people have to breathe,eat,sleep,wash etc...the same as us mere mortals.

Yes,their troubles might have been made worse because of their fame-
but they might not have been- we don't know,do we?

Mr Benevolent · 28-01-2012 11:03PM

Enda Kenny.

wendell borton · 29-01-2012 01:54PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price

Unable to accept the selfish reasoning for kindness found in his own mathematical theory of altruism

fruvai · 29-01-2012 02:15PM

Elliott Smith stabbed himself in the heart

saa · 29-01-2012 02:16PM

msthe80s wrote: »

Do you really think these people committed suicide because they were famous?

Or is there a chance it was because they were troubled?

They may have been famous,but famous people have to breathe,eat,sleep,wash etc...the same as us mere mortals.

Yes,their troubles might have been made worse because of their fame-
but they might not have been- we don't know,do we?

I'm not an expert, I'm still learning and it's interesting because like you were saying it might not be because of fame we don't know but to expand that idea further it might not be because troubled either.
Anyone talking openly about fame will at least say its not all its cracked up to be and seems extraordinarily stressful.

I was doing a suicide intervention course and we spent a good ten minutes talking about a scenario where a woman misses her bus, goes home and kills herself and we were talking about why, the class came to a decision that there must be something else, not necessarily as its not the situation the person is and they do not need to be troubled or struggling, they could be completely content and then kill themselves there wouldn't even need to be an incident or their lifestyle to provoke it.

tdv123 · 29-01-2012 02:57PM

Marilyn Monroe?

Underdraft · 29-01-2012 03:03PM

Unfortunately Philip Collopy technically doesn't qualify, but I thought I'd mention it purely because it was hilarious and a good result for mankind.

robman60 · 29-01-2012 04:12PM

Kurt Cobain hasn't been mentioned much in this.

I wasn't even born, little did I know his music would in the future be so inspiring for me.

I think the fact that so many famous people have committed suicide just shows that we're all extremely vulnerable and can easily become victims of ourselves.

It's staggering the numbers that die by suicide, up to a million per year worldwide, and the WHO says every 40 seconds someone dies by suicide.

JerryHandbag · 29-01-2012 04:18PM

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

Bud Dwyer, it's as real as fuçk.

Ugh, just watched that video. ****ing hell

Latchy · 29-01-2012 04:28PM

Two members of the group Badfinger . The group who were signed to the Apple label and deemed to be the next big thing after the Beatles had some chart sucess with 'No Matter What , Day After Day and Baby Blue ' and also wrote the song 'Witout You ' ( which became a hit record for Harry Nilsson ) were on the verge of international success but became embroiled in the chaos of Apple Records' dissolution .

Then Warner Bros, who because of financial dispute with their management pulled the plug on marketing of their 1974 album, Wish You Were Here (seven weeks after its release) which left the band in severe financial difficulties. It all became to much and guitarist Pete Ham commited suicide. Tom Evans never got over the sight of seeing his band mate and close friend hanging and went on to commit suicide himself .

NakedNNettles · 29-01-2012 04:33PM

biko wrote: »

Most famous? Socrates drinking hemlock, but I guess you whippersnappers are too young to remember.

You're wrong, he was made drink it as a death sentence. Good job i'm not a whippersnapper.

Hunter S Thompson blew his head off in '05.

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."

Galwayguy35 · 29-01-2012 04:36PM

Mark Anthony - sword
Cleopatra - snake

Rough way to go in both cases.

timewilltell · 29-01-2012 04:45PM

All great poets/literaists were a bit depressed/ Cases in point;

John Berryman,
Virginia Woolf,
Ernest Hemmingway

Apparently it's called the Sylvia Plath effect... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath_effect

Rothko · 29-01-2012 04:46PM

Ernest Hemmingway
Darby Crash

Latchy · 29-01-2012 04:48PM

Front page of todays Sunday Mail has article on suspected suicide of former Bill star Colin Tarrant .

Marzipan85 · 29-01-2012 04:55PM

scientist who invented nylon sticks with me for some reason.
you can picture him saying 'gaahhh, what the hell is this stuff? i'm a failure!'
and now you can't walk into a clothes shop without something nylon in it.

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