Curt Henning
Eddie Guerrero
British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith

Brad Delp (Lead singer of the band "Boston")
Dana Plato
Donny Hathaway
Del Shannon

Brad Delp (Lead singer of the band "Boston")
Dana Plato
Donny Hathaway
Del Shannon


Dana Plato's son.

Andrew Koenig 2010 ( Growing Pains)


I didn't realize Boner committed suicide.  That's sad. :(

Mike Hutchence, frontman of the band INXS
Danny Rapp, lead singer of 50s band Danny And The Juniors
Kurt Cobain
Bob Welch, rock musician (not to be confused with the baseball pitcher, who is still alive)
George Reeves (apparently), actor best known for his role as Superman

Wyatt Knight, the guy who played the role of Tommy Turner in the Porky's Trilogy.

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I didn't realize Boner committed suicide.  That's sad. :(


His body was found in some deserted area at the 2010 Olympics. He's been missing for a few days they found he'd wandered off and hung himself. (Or something similar to those details...I didn't look it up for accuracy)

Hunter S. Thompson

Mike Hutchence, frontman of the band INXS


I thought Hutchence died in an accidental autoerotic asphyxiation (?)

Ernest Hemingway ate a shotgun (1961).

Sylvia Plath took the gas pipe (1963).

Mark Rothko slit his wrists (1970).

Ian Curtis hanged himself (1980).

I thought Hutchence died in an accidental autoerotic asphyxiation (?)

Maybe he did; but many sources indicate that he took his own life.

I even remember hearing about it on the radio when it happened; at first he was "found dead", but no other details were given.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker. Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successive locations until 1970, when they were again exhumed, cremated, and the ashes scattered.

Accounts differ as to the cause of death; one states that he died by poison only and another that he died by a self-inflicted gunshot while biting down on a cyanide capsule. Contemporary historians have rejected these accounts as being either Soviet propaganda or an attempted compromise in order to reconcile the different conclusion. One eye-witness recorded that the body showed signs of having been shot through the mouth, but this has been proven unlikely. There is also controversy regarding the authenticity of skull and jaw fragments which were recovered. In 2009, DNA tests were performed on a skull Soviet officials had long believed to be Hitler's. According to the American researchers, the tests revealed that the skull was actually that of a woman less than 40 years old. The jaw fragments which had been recovered were not tested by the American researchers.

Porn starlets Savannah, Wendy O. Williams, and Nancee Kelly (daughter of Jerry Van Dyke).

I didn't realize Boner committed suicide.  That's sad. :(


He hung himself from a tree in February 2010. :(

Porn starlets Savannah, Wendy O. Williams, and Nancee Kelly (daughter of Jerry Van Dyke).


Trinity Loren who committed suicide October 1998 from overdose of painkillers.

Here's 9 great musicians/singers who died by suicide ...

Jon Lee, drummer for Feeder
Doug Hopkins, guitarist for Gin Blossoms
Stuart Adamson, lead singer for Big Country
Billy MacKenzie, lead singer for The Associates
B.B. Gabor, Canadian singer
Pete Hamm, lead singer for Badfinger
Tom Evans, bassist for Badfinger
Kevin Wilkinson, drummer for China Crisis
Paul Hester, drummer for Crowded House

Former Pennsylvania State treasurer, Budd Dwyer.

I wish I would've met you
Now it's a little late.
What you could've taught me
I could've saved some face
They think that your early ending
Was all wrong
For the most part they're right
But look how they all got strong
That's why I say "hey man, nice shot"

His body was found in some deserted area at the 2010 Olympics. He's been missing for a few days they found he'd wandered off and hung himself. (Or something similar to those details...I didn't look it up for accuracy)


Yeah.  Walter Keonig was his father and he was really distraught after that happened.  He blamed himself for what happened because Andrew never left a note.  :(

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Former Pennsylvania State treasurer, Budd Dwyer.

I wish I would've met you
Now it's a little late.
What you could've taught me
I could've saved some face
They think that your early ending
Was all wrong
For the most part they're right
But look how they all got strong
That's why I say "hey man, nice shot"


The video of his suicide is on YouTube. One of the most horrific things I ever saw

Race car driver Dick Trickle.

"Storage Wars" great Mark Balelo (a.k.a. "Rico Suave").

The video of his suicide is on YouTube. One of the most horrific things I ever saw


Yeah that was pretty grody. A .357 makes one hell of a mess.

The day it happened, many of the Pennsylvania schools were closed, and what with Budd being somewhat of a celebrity, his "press conference" was beamed live with no delay. The guys in the production booth were so busy crapping themselves that they forgot to cut off the feed, and so tens of thousands of people saw the whole thing live.  8-P

In Picksburgh, local station WPXI played the incident in its entirety during a follow-on newscast. There were a few people who complained and so the station edited out the last moment for further broadcasts.

I remember feeling bad about this at the time... Not so much about Budd himself, but I had a coworker named Dwyer whose brother (named Bud) had done the same thing a few years before, but without a press conference. Having to replay that again had to be tough for her.  :-\\

Yeah that was pretty grody. A .357 makes one hell of a mess.

The day it happened, many of the Pennsylvania schools were closed, and what with Budd being somewhat of a celebrity, his "press conference" was beamed live with no delay. The guys in the production booth were so busy crapping themselves that they forgot to cut off the feed, and so tens of thousands of people saw the whole thing live.  8-P

In Picksburgh, local station WPXI played the incident in its entirety during a follow-on newscast. There were a few people who complained and so the station edited out the last moment for further broadcasts.

I remember feeling bad about this at the time... Not so much about Budd himself, but I had a coworker named Dwyer whose brother (named Bud) had done the same thing a few years before, but without a press conference. Having to replay that again had to be tough for her.  :-\\


His name was "Bud Dwyer" from PA and he offed himself?  That's an eerie coincidence!
:o

His name was "Bud Dwyer" from PA and he offed himself?  That's an eerie coincidence!
:o


It would have been even eerier if he were from Erie.

Montague Druitt (15 August 1857 – early December 1888) was one of the suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders that took place in London between August and November 1888. He was employed as an assistant schoolmaster at a boarding school, and his interest outside work was cricket, which he played with many leading players of the time, including Lord Harris and Francis Lacey. In November 1888, he lost his post at the school for reasons that remain unclear. One month later his body was found drowned in the River Thames. His death, which was found to be a suicide, roughly coincided with the end of the murders that were attributed to Jack the Ripper. Private suggestions in the 1890s that he could have committed the crimes became public knowledge in the 1960s, and led to the publication of books that proposed him as the murderer. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, however, and many writers from the 1970s onwards have rejected him as a likely suspect.

Former Family Feud host Ray Combs was found hanging in his room at a mental hospital :\'(.
Former Lush drummer Chris Ackland.

Ritchey Edwards the guitar  player for the Manic Street Preachers just disappeared in 1995 and hasn't been seen nor heard from since.  His family had him declared legally dead in 2008.  They haven't found his remains yet.

Brian Keith ("Uncle Bill" from Family Affair)

Hugh O'Connor, son of Carroll O'Connor.

Former Family Feud host Ray Combs was found hanging in his room at a mental hospital :\'(.


That's because they made him watch Family Feud!!!
:o

GG Allin.  It might have been accidental.  He announced he was committing suicide on stage in Detroit for his Halloween gig in '91 (I think), so the local authorities picked him up and shut him in the hoosegow for a few months.  GG died of a drug overdose in '93.  Might or might not have been suicide. 

Wendy O'Williams, formerly of The Plasmatics, died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound on April 8, 1998.  She was 48 years old.  Along with her career as a punk/metal singer-performance artist, she also made a few porn films in the late seventies, including one where she shoots chicken eggs out of her lady parts (I think it was "Candy Goes to Hollywood).  At the time of her death she was living a quiet life in Storrs, CT, where she worked in a health food store and volunteered for animal rights work.

Shauna Grant, a young porn star from the Golden Age, also shot herself.  She was struggling with cocaine addiction and its attendant problems.  That was 3/22/84.  Grant was only 21 years old.

Former Family Feud host Ray Combs was found hanging in his room at a mental hospital :\'(.
Former Lush drummer Chris Ackland.


that was so sad.  :(

In 2009, former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun committed suicide, jumping from a 45 meter cliff known as Bueong-i Bawi in Bongha, Gimhae, South Korea.

Amy Whinehouse

Amy Whinehouse


I think hers was an accidental overdose... Much like Whitney Houston and Heath Ledger.

Over the long haul I suppose you could call them all suicides because their behaviors were going to take them to a dead end.  :-\\

Junior Seau

Junior Seau


I'll see your Jr. Seau and raise you one Dave Duerson.

I think hers was an accidental overdose... Much like Whitney Houston and Heath Ledger.

Over the long haul I suppose you could call them all suicides because their behaviors were going to take them to a dead end.  :-\\


So when they say "accidental", that person was supposed take a certain amount but they wound up overdosing? ???

So when they say "accidental", that person was supposed take a certain amount but they wound up overdosing? ???


No, it just means they were trying to get a high and took too much.

No, it just means they were trying to get a high and took too much.


But shouldn't they have taken the right amount for what their symptoms were?  ???

But shouldn't they have taken the right amount for what their symptoms were?  ???


Usually when people OD, they don't do it on medicine to fix a problem.  It is an addiction and they just take it for the high.  Not all OD's are on medicine, either.  Other drugs are usually involved.  Whitney Houston was addicted to cocaine at one point, not meds.  The "accidental" part comes in with the fact that usually they are not trying to kill themselves, it just happens.

But shouldn't they have taken the right amount for what their symptoms were?  ???


Addicts have to take more and more dope to get high as their addiction progresses.  And for a while their body builds up a pretty decent tolerance to drug levels that would kill an otherwise-ordinary person.  But eventually they get a stronger-than-usual batch of dope, or just decide to take a huge hit to get that  extra "kick"....

Then you have addicts who mix multiple medicines and/or drugs, and the interaction between the various drugs kills them.

In the end it really is not an "accident".  When you continue to take drugs and tempt fate, and eventually fate rings the doorbell, "accident" is not the word that comes to mind.

Then you have addicts who mix multiple medicines and/or drugs, and the interaction between the various drugs kills them.

Just like Elvis Presley did.

Spalding Gray
:\'(

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NHL enforcers Wade Belak and Rick Rypien.

Rob Pilatus from Milli Vanilli (1965-1998)

Rob Pilatus from Milli Vanilli (1965-1998)


He died by alcohol and prescription pills.

Rob Pilatus from Milli Vanilli (1965-1998)


I remember Rob died not too long after he was featured on VH1's "Behind the Music" series. I had been rooting for Rob and Fab after that show.  :-\\

I remember Rib died not too long after he was featured on VH1's "Behind the Music" series. I had been rooting for Rob and Fab after that show.  :-\\


It was a precipitous fall from fame and fortune with coke-and-p*ssy parties every night to be the laughing stocks of the music biz in 48 hiours.  Myself, I could care less if they were lip syncing.  I thought taking away MV's Grammy because they weren't real singers was like taking away Mickey Mouse's Oscar because he wasn't a real mouse.  We're not talking Pavarotti here.  The vocals were but one part of an entirely artificial product for mass consumption.  The marketing was far more important then the musicianship and that was the nature of the MTV pop music machine.
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It was a precipitous fall from fame and fortune with coke-and-p*ssy parties every night to be the laughing stocks of the music biz in 48 hiours.  Myself, I could care less if they were lip syncing.  I thought taking away MV's Grammy because they weren't real singers was like taking away Mickey Mouse's Oscar because he wasn't a real mouse.  We're not talking Pavarotti here.  The vocals were but one part of an entirely artificial product for mass consumption.  The marketing was far more important then the musicianship and that was the nature of the MTV pop music machine.
::)


Boy you know it's... boy you know it's... boy you know its... True.

I remember Rob died not too long after he was featured on VH1's "Behind the Music" series. I had been rooting for Rob and Fab after that show.  :-\\


until they were caught lip-synching. ::)

Aviation pioneer Larry Walters (aka "Lawn Chair Larry") who in 1979 piloted a balloon-tethered lawn chair to an altitude of 15,000 feet in Los Angeles airspace.  8). Larry became an overnight celebrity.

Additionally, his flight broke the altitude record for a clustered-balloon aircraft, which previously had been only 3,740 feet.  8)

Many years later he was found dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound.  :\'(

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Wendy O. Williams. Lead singer for the Plasmatics.

Williams first attempted suicide in 1993 by hammering a knife into her chest where it lodged in her sternum. However, she changed her mind and called her boyfriend Rod Swenson to take her to the hospital. She attempted suicide again in 1997 with an overdose of ephedrine. Williams died of self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 6, 1998.

Wendy O. Williams. Lead singer for the Plasmatics.

Williams first attempted suicide in 1993 by hammering a knife into her chest where it lodged in her sternum. However, she changed her mind and called her boyfriend Rod Swenson to take her to the hospital. She attempted suicide again in 1997 with an overdose of ephedrine. Williams died of self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 6, 1998.


Bummer.  I really liked her in the movie "Porky's" too...

Legendary Soul Train host and founder, Don Cornelius.

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Legendary Soul Train host and founder, Don Cornelius.

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I was hoping to see a Soul Train reunion.  :(

He died by alcohol and prescription pills.


That's a suicide.

Herve Villichaize Tattoo on Fantasy Island committed suicide on September 4, 1993

David Rapperport Simon McKay on The Wizard committed Suicide on May 2, 1990

Newsbabe Christine Chubbuck commited suicide on-the-air at WXLT-TV is Florida, in 1974.

Ray Combs from Family Feud hung himself June 2nd 1996.

Ray Combs from Family Feud hung himself June 2nd 1996.


I remember that.  That sucked...

Del Shannon sufering from depression, for which he was taking Prozac, committed suicide on February 8, 1990, killing himself with a .22-caliber rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered. Following his death, the Traveling Wilburys honored him by recording a version of "Runaway". Lynne also co-produced Shannon's posthumous album, Rock On, released on Silvertone in 1991.

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In 2010, Alexander McQueen, the British fashion designer and couturier, was found hanging in his London home, paramedics were called and they pronounced him dead at the scene.

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I miss him.  :(

American singer-songwriter Bobby Bloom suffered from depression towards the end of his life. Bloom died on February 28, 1974, at the age of 28. He apparently shot himself while cleaning his gun.The family does not believe Bobby would shoot himself and the investigation never followed up on leads. Jeff Barry was surprised to find out afterwards that he was the sole beneficiary of Bloom's life insurance policy.

American singer-songwriter Bobby Bloom suffered from depression towards the end of his life. Bloom died on February 28, 1974, at the age of 28. He apparently shot himself while cleaning his gun.The family does not believe Bobby would shoot himself and the investigation never followed up on leads. Jeff Barry was surprised to find out afterwards that he was the sole beneficiary of Bloom's life insurance policy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjVd0TeOX0

The family does not believe Bobby would shoot himself

Does not carry much weight. Talking personal experience here.

Mindy McCready killed herself about a month after her youngest son's father did.

David Mount, drummer with 1970s band Mud.
Comedian Tony Hancock (in June 1968).
Patricia Cutts, the original actress who portrayed 'Blanche Hunt' in 'Coronation Street'.
David Scarboro, the original 'Mark Fowler' from 'Eastenders'.
Lady Isobel Barnett, regular panellist on 'What's My Line?' committed suicide in 1980 over the shame of a shoplifting charge.
Actor Alan Lake in 1984, distraught over the death of his wife the actress Diana Dors.
Paul Williams from Motown legends The Temptations in 1973.

Also American author Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and American singer Del Shannon in February 1990. They both shot themselves.

... and American singer Del Shannon in February 1990. They both shot themselves.

Del Shannon sufering from depression, for which he was taking Prozac, committed suicide on February 8, 1990, killing himself with a .22-caliber rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered. Following his death, the Traveling Wilburys honored him by recording a version of "Runaway". Lynne also co-produced Shannon's posthumous album, Rock On, released on Silvertone in 1991.

Also American author Ernest Hemingway in 1961

Also Ernest's grand daughter Mariel Hemmingway in 1996.

Also Ernest's grand daughter Mariel Hemmingway in 1996.
Mariel is still alive, it was her sister Margaux, who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1996 at age 42.

Love Del Shannon!

Johnny Kemp was popular for his song "Just Got Paid" in 1988 died mysteriously floating in an ocean in the Bahamas. He was 55 years old. :\'( 

Johnny Kemp was popular for his song "Just Got Paid" in 1988 died mysteriously floating in an ocean in the Bahamas. He was 55 years old. :\'(


I think that would be the Atlantic Ocean.  I didn't read anything about suicide though.  :-\\

I think that would be the Atlantic Ocean.  I didn't read anything about suicide though.  :-\\


What I read he was mysteriously floating in a body of water.

Curt Henning
Eddie Guerrero
British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith


Davey Boy Smith had a heart attack
Eddie Guerro's death was also heart related
And I'm pretty sure Mr. Perfect died from a drug overdose.

The always beautiful, Elliott Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2sfwky4RqQ

Sawyer Sweeten, who played the role of Geoffrey Barone on the 90's sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond".

Sawyer Sweeten, who played the role of Geoffrey Barone on the 90's sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond".



So unbelievably sad. I was shocked when I heard this morning.

Sawyer Sweeten, who played the role of Geoffrey Barone on the 90's sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond".

So unbelievably sad. I was shocked when I heard this morning.

So was I. :o

Elizabeth "Biff" Hartman, famous for her role opposite Sidney Poitier in the 60's flick "A Patch of Blue".  She received both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for that performance.  (Shelley Winters won an Oscar for that movie as Best Supporting Actress, playing Biff's mother).

She jumped out a window.  :\'(

Brynn Hartman the would be ex-wife of Phil Hartman shot him before she took her own life and left their two children Sean Hartman and Birgen Hartman behind. 

On March 11th 2016, English musician Keith Emerson died in Santa Monica, California, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he had become "depressed, nervous and anxious" because nerve damage in his hands had hampered his playing. Emerson found his first commercial success with the Nice, in the late 1960s and was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups.

Ten years ago, Brad Delp, frontman of the rock band Boston, also took his own life... by means of CO poisoning.

Butch Trucks, drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.

Ten years ago, Brad Delp, frontman of the rock band Boston, also took his own life... by means of CO poisoning.


As did Keith Emmerson last year.

As did Keith Emmerson last year.

On March 11th 2016, English musician Keith Emerson died in Santa Monica, California, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he had become "depressed, nervous and anxious" because nerve damage in his hands had hampered his playing. Emerson found his first commercial success with the Nice, in the late 1960s and was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups.

Sylvia Plath took her own life, as did the main character in her book The Bell Jar.

Original TV "Superman" star George Reeves shot himself in 1959.

Original TV "Superman" star George Reeves shot himself in 1959.
... and started the "Superman Curse".

... and started the "Superman Curse".


And that article is only the tip of the iceberg. Other cast members from "Superman Classic" who succumbed to the curse include John Hamilton (Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet), Noel Neill (Lois Lane #2), Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter), and Robert Shayne (Inspector Henderson).

And even bit part actor Richard Reeves (Bad Luck Brannigan) fell victim to the Superman/Reeves curse when he died in 1967. He was related neither to George Reeves nor Christopher Reeves.  :-\\

Almost exactly ten years ago, baseball position player Ryan Freel took his own life. (He played with a handful of teams during the 2000s decade.)

Others who made this list are.

Jason Frank: Actor known for his role as Tommy Oliver on the original run of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.  Suicide by hanging

Steven "Twitch" Boss: Known for being the Executive Producer and D.J. on the recently canceled Ellen Degeneres Show.  Suicide by gunshot.

Mary-Kay Bergman: Voice of all the female characters on South Park.  She suffered from mental illness at the time of her death.  Suicide by gunshot.

Charles Rocket: Actor known for being a player on Saturday Night Live.  He was set to be the breakout star but got fired along with three others.  Suicide by a knife blade.

Brynn Hartman: A wife and mother of two kids.  Her husband was actor Phil Hartman who found success on Saturday Night Live, and News Radio as well as did voice-over work on The Simpsons.  Her death was a suicide by gunshot after she shot her husband 3x.  He was killed instantly.

until they were caught lip-synching. ::)


Yeah, I was completely floored that it wasn't Fabrice and Rob singing in that instance.  That it was just a studio band that had no presence on stage.  I just remember watching the press conference that they had after that and I remember hating them.  It was like why would they do something like that? Have they no shame?

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I figure they were singers but they weren't.  They were entertainers who were allegedly seduced by the music industry.  And what was so bad about that is that afterwards the trash press started to focus on other bands like New Kids On The Block and they were like "okay well, these two got caught.  Who else is faking it on stage?"?

Yeah, I was completely floored that it wasn't Fabrice and Rob singing in that instance.  That it was just a studio band that had no presence on stage.  I just remember watching the press conference that they had after that and I remember hating them.  It was like why would they do something like that? Have they no shame?

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I figure they were singers but they weren't.  They were entertainers who were allegedly seduced by the music industry.  And what was so bad about that is that afterwards the trash press started to focus on other bands like New Kids On The Block and they were like "okay well, these two got caught.  Who else is faking it on stage?"?

Milli Vanilli would've most likely have made it if they hadn't faked it all.

They were involved in the scandal along with Frank Fairian.  They were told not to sing because they couldn't sing well enough to make it believable.

Brian Keith famous for his role as the father in TV’s Family Affair also took his own life; he was the third main cast member to meet an untimely end, in ‘97, the first being Anissa Jones (Buffy) in ‘76, and Sebastian Cabot (Mr. French) in ‘77.  :\'(

Elizabeth "Biff" Hartman

She jumped out a window.  :\'(


As did Debbie Weems, who was a regular on Captain Kangaroo when she took her own life from her apartment window in 1976. (Although many believed she may have been pushed off.)

They were involved in the scandal along with Frank Fairian.  They were told not to sing because they couldn't sing well enough to make it believable.


Their hit Blame it on the Rain was quite catchy, and Rob & Fab actually sang that one.  8)

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Their hit Blame it on the Rain was quite catchy, and Rob & Fab actually sang that one.  8)

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Now that I didn't know?  I had assumed that they never sang a note on any song on that album.  That it was all studio magic.

Their hit Blame It on the Rain was quite catchy, and Rob & Fab actually sang that one.  8)


I didn’t realize they actually performed vocal work on that track. Interesting.

I didn’t realize they actually performed vocal work on that track. Interesting.


BIOTR was Rob and Fab’s “up yours” moment to those we ho thought they couldn’t sing.  8)

Fashion designer Kate Spade also took her own life (in 2018). I was just realizing this because today would have been her 60th birthday.

WWF legend Chris Benoit hanged himself after murdering his wife and son. It was suspected to be a case of ‘rhoid rage’ but that was just a theory.

WWF legend Chris Benoit hanged himself after murdering his wife and son. It was suspected to be a case of ‘rhoid rage’ but that was just a theory.


And after that no one in wrestling wants anything to do with him anymore after what he did to his own family.

And after that no one in wrestling wants anything to do with him anymore after what he did to his own family.


Yeah that was a real buzzkill.

Yeah that was a real buzzkill.


After he killed his wife and his son, he hung himself. :(

Grunge singer Chris Cornell, who led the rock band Soundgarden and the supergroup Audioslave, also is added to this list. He committed suicide by hanging in 2017. :\'(

Grunge singer Chris Cornell, who led the rock band Soundgarden and the supergroup Audioslave, also is added to this list. He committed suicide by hanging in 2017. :\'(

...and two months after Cornell's death, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington took his own life in the same manner... coincidentally on what would have been Cornell's 53rd birthday. :\'(

Kurt Cobain died by suicide in 1994 when his daughter Frances Bean Cobain was almost a year old.  It's been widely debated that his death was a murder and not a suicide but the coroner's report determined that suicide was the correct ruling.

Freddie Prinze died by suicide in 1977 at the age of 22.  His death was a suicide by gunshot.  His son Freddie Prinze Jr was almost a year old when his father died and told a reporter for Entertainment Tonight that he had no memories of his father.

Kung Fu legend David Carradine hanged himself in a Bangkok hotel back in 2009 but it has been argued that he did not commit suicide, as apparently he liked to get his jollies via “erotic asphyxiation” and perhaps things got out of hand.

Pop singer Tommy Page, on March 4th 2017 at 46 years of age. :\'(

BIOTR was Rob and Fab’s “up yours” moment to those we ho thought they couldn’t sing.  8)


It wasn't that I thought that they "couldn't sing." It was that I thought that they didn't sing a note on that album.

It wasn't that I thought that they "couldn't sing." It was that I thought that they didn't sing a note on that album.

But their dance moves were pretty cool.

But their dance moves were pretty cool.


They shouldn't have won a Grammy for that.  They should have won an Oscar for that.

They shouldn't have won a Grammy for that.  They should have won an Oscar for that.


Here's the thing I always wondered...when they revoked the Grammy from that disgraceful duo, why didn't they just give it to the actual people who DID sing on the album? I guess maybe by then the whole project was just too tainted with fraud.

Not mentioned yet.. Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro on this day in 1954 (70 years ago today) in the midst of a political crisis.

Not mentioned yet.. Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro on this day in 1954 (70 years ago today) in the midst of a political crisis.


Wow.  33 years before Bud Dwyer ate his .357 Magnum at a press conference he had called in Pennsylvania.

In 1980 Paul Snider the estranged husband of Dorothy Stratten died by suicide after he killed her in an act of domestic violence.

This is a morbid topic.    :P

In 1980 Paul Snider the estranged husband of Dorothy Stratten died by suicide after he killed her in an act of domestic violence.


Snider was a scum-sucking pimp.

In 1980 Paul Snider the estranged husband of Dorothy Stratten died by suicide after he killed her in an act of domestic violence.



Snider was a scum-sucking pimp.


I have not heard of either of these people. Are they considered important?

I have not heard of either of these people. Are they considered important?


Dorothy Stratten was an up-and-coming Playboy Playmate in 1979 and 1980. She married Canadian sleazeball/pimp Paul Snider somewhere along the way. (Side note, Paul Snider was instrumental in establishing the “Chippendales” male dance troupe).

Eventually she got bored with Paul, and started partying with legendary director Peter Bogdanovich. Snider got uber-jealous and then killed Dorothy with a shotgun blast, then raped her dead body. Like I said, a real dirtbag. Then he did the only right thing in his life and ate his own shotgun.

Hugh Hefner laid some of the blame for Dorothy’s death on Bogdanovich, and after her death they had a running feud.

Stratten's murder was depicted in two films. In the made-for-television Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981), Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed Stratten and Bruce Weitz played Paul Snider. Bob Fosse's feature film Star 80 (1983) starred Mariel Hemingway as Stratten and Eric Roberts as Snider.

Bogdanovich went on to marry Dorothy’s younger sister Louise. Who was 30 years younger than him. :o That would be a record even in my family.

Speaking of suicide stories, I was administering a job interview for a position at my company this week. I asked the candidate “Have you ever had to fire anybody, and tell me the circumstances.”

He went on to say that one of his employees had made a racist joke in front of a black coworker and it wasn’t the first time. The company owner found out and was incensed. He called my guy… told him to immediately fire the racist dude.

My guy called the perp (they were in different cities) and told the guy that he was fired. Told him “you know we had this discussion before and I told you to never do it again. I gave you enough rope to hang yourself and you did just that.”

That night the guy hanged himself.

Not mentioned yet.. Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro on this day in 1954 (70 years ago today) in the midst of a political crisis.


There is also Chile's Salvador Allende on Sept 11th, 1973 when Augusto Pinochet organized a coup.

Carlos was in Chile earlier in the year working on his PhD. His first wife was pregnant with their first daughter and she wanted to go home-so they left Chile in July.  He knew if he stayed, his fate would probably have been the same as Charles Horman (see the movie Missing with Jack Lemmon & Sissy Spacek). Carlos didn't know Charles but he knew of him and they traveled in the same circles.


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Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and host of the travel show No Reservations, died of suicide by hanging in 2018 at the age of 61.

Dorothy Stratten was an up-and-coming Playboy Playmate in 1979 and 1980. She married Canadian sleazeball/pimp Paul Snider somewhere along the way. (Side note, Paul Snider was instrumental in establishing the “Chippendales” male dance troupe).

Eventually she got bored with Paul, and started partying with legendary director Peter Bogdanovich. Snider got uber-jealous and then killed Dorothy with a shotgun blast, then raped her dead body. Like I said, a real dirtbag. Then he did the only right thing in his life and ate his own shotgun.

Hugh Hefner laid some of the blame for Dorothy’s death on Bogdanovich, and after her death they had a running feud.

Stratten's murder was depicted in two films. In the made-for-television Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981), Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed Stratten and Bruce Weitz played Paul Snider. Bob Fosse's feature film Star 80 (1983) starred Mariel Hemingway as Stratten and Eric Roberts as Snider.

Bogdanovich went on to marry Dorothy’s younger sister Louise. Who was 30 years younger than him. :o That would be a record even in my family.

Why would someone eat their own shotgun? :o

Speaking of suicide stories, I was administering a job interview for a position at my company this week. I asked the candidate “Have you ever had to fire anybody, and tell me the circumstances.”

He went on to say that one of his employees had made a racist joke in front of a black coworker and it wasn’t the first time. The company owner found out and was incensed. He called my guy… told him to immediately fire the racist dude.

My guy called the perp (they were in different cities) and told the guy that he was fired. Told him “you know we had this discussion before and I told you to never do it again. I gave you enough rope to hang yourself and you did just that.”

That night the guy hanged himself.

That's sad.  :(

Why would someone eat their own shotgun? :o


That’s a euphemism. He shot himself in the mouth.

I would like to mention Freddie Prinze who committed suicide in 1977, I think he shot himself or I think he took a bunch of pills.

I would like to mention Freddie Prinze Jr. who committed suicide in 1977, I think he shot himself or I think he took a bunch of pills.

No, that was Freddie Sr., not Jr.

No, that was Freddie Sr., not Jr.


Fred Sr. was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel.

Fred Sr. was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel.

Yes, but he was the one who took his own life in 1977. His son was still a little boy at that time.

Yes, but he was the one who took his own life in 1977. His son was still a little boy at that time.


Which is a bit odd because Jr. is Freddie James Prinze Jr.  but his father was not named James.  :-\\

Which is a bit odd because Jr. is Freddie James Prinze Jr.  but his father was not named James.  :-\\


In which case "Freddie Prince Jr" is not really a "junior" at all. He's just calling himself that. Possibly to distinguish himself from his father. To be a "junior" one has to have the entire of the father's name. In fact, many parents who give a child the father's first name give them a different middle name so they will very specifically not be a junior. Because being a junior can be a burden or a diminutive.

In which case "Freddie Prince Jr" is not really a "junior" at all. He's just calling himself that. Possibly to distinguish himself from his father. To be a "junior" one has to have the entire of the father's name. In fact, many parents who give a child the father's first name give them a different middle name so they will very specifically not be a junior. Because being a junior can be a burden or a diminutive.


Kinda like Desi Arnaz Jr who is actually Desi Arnaz IV.

Kinda like Desi Arnaz Jr who is actually Desi Arnaz IV.


Carlos was the IV. His son is the V. He ended it but his son's middle name is...well you can guess.



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Kinda like Desi Arnaz Jr who is actually Desi Arnaz IV.


There was a TV show called "The Mothers In Law " circa 1967-1968 produced by Desi Arnaz Sr. who also occasionally acted in the show as well. I recall one of the episodes where both Desi Sr. and Desi Jr. appeared and the credits read "guest starring the two Desi Arnazs".

There was a TV show called "The Mothers In Law " circa 1967-1968 produced by Desi Arnaz Sr. who also occasionally acted in the show as well. I recall one of the episodes where both Desi Sr. and Desi Jr. appeared and the credits read "guest starring the two Desi Arnazs".


I remember that show-Kaye Ballard & Eve Arden.


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I remember that show-Kaye Ballard & Eve Arden.


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In 1999 David Strickland died by suicide in a seedy hotel room in Las Vegas, NV. 

French actor Charles Boyer, in 1978, two days before his 79th birthday (and two days after his wife died of cancer).

In 1999 David Strickland died by suicide in a seedy hotel room in Las Vegas, NV.


From his Wikipedia page…

On the week of his death, Strickland and comedian Andy Dick flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and spent three days :o partying in strip clubs.  After checking into a motel, Strickland spent time with a hooker, consumed six bottles of beer and some drugs, and then killed himself.

Why would someone eat their own shotgun? :o


I don't think he meant that literally Howard.  I think he meant that Snider put the gun in his mouth and he pulled the trigger.

I don't think he meant that literally Howard.  I think he meant that Snider put the gun in his mouth and he pulled the trigger.


Yes.