Celebrities who self mercy killed
Thomas Coleman
apparant long list of famous folks who were suffering a great deal from
a terminal illness and decided to end their own life. Including, IIRC
Brian Keith
Faron Young
What other celebs "put themselves out of their misery" which seems to be
a growing trend in the last decade or so.
Evan Hulka
well, not in the last decade or so, but the one that comes to mind is the
actor Pedro Armendariz... shot himself in a hospital in the early '60s after
being diagnosed with cancer. (not actually familiar with his work, but have
read "Hollywood Babylon" a few too many times...)
one could count Kurt Cobain in this category if one believes his mysterious
long-term stomach ailment was the cause of his heroin addiction and suicide,
rather than vice versa...
Hulka
William J. Meyerbeck
on Fantasy Island. He had a huge list of medical problems and was tired
of living in pain.
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William J. Meyerbeck
William J. Meyerbeck
all of his life and could not stand being bedridden.
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
suicide, I wrote in protest to Andy Rooney wondering if he would have talked
about Ernest Hemingway in the same manner. He responded very quickly via mail
(he jotted a note down on the fax I'd sent him) and pointed out Hemingway's
stomach cancer, which would indeed (a) tend to support my point, and (b) place
Hemingway within the realm of this thread...
...this may be somewhat afield, as I believe his disease wasn't actually
terminal, but it seems to me that Everett Sloane (Bernstein in CITIZEN KANE)
committed suicide in despair over losing his eyesight to something or
other...and did the actress who played Auntie Em in THE WIZARD OF OZ have
something terminal when she killed herself?...
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a Heart condition of some sort.
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"Citizen Kane"? Nah...He's best known as the guy who whistled the Andy
Griffith Show theme (also appeared in one episode).
v...@mail.com
> ...back when he did that hatchet piece on 60 MINUTES about Kurt Cobain's
> suicide, I wrote in protest to Andy Rooney wondering if he would have talked
> about Ernest Hemingway in the same manner. He responded very quickly via mail
> (he jotted a note down on the fax I'd sent him) and pointed out Hemingway's
> stomach cancer, which would indeed (a) tend to support my point, and (b) place
> Hemingway within the realm of this thread...
So why don't you make clear what you're talking about: WHAT hatchet
piece? What
do you mean by "the same manner"? Support what point of yours? How
place
Hemingway in this thread? And what about Hemingway's stomach cancer?
If you want your posts to be useful, you've got to start putting
them in some
kind of legible context with legible (meaningful) references.
AAMEE2844
Alzheimer's disease.
Clara Blandik (Auntie Em) on Palm Sunday, April 15, 1962, went to church in
Hollywood, California. When she returned she wrote a note stating she was about
to take the greatest adventure of her life. She took an overdose of sleeping
tablets and pulled a plastic bag over her head, thus ending her life. She was
80 years old. Her health had been in great decline.
Brad Ferguson
wrote:
> Thomas Coleman wrote:
>
> > Well, it looks as though Richard Farnsworth is yet another in an
> > apparant long list of famous folks who were suffering a great deal from
> > a terminal illness and decided to end their own life. Including, IIRC
> > Brian Keith
> > Faron Young
> > What other celebs "put themselves out of their misery" which seems to be
> > a growing trend in the last decade or so.
>
> well, not in the last decade or so, but the one that comes to mind is the
> actor Pedro Armendariz... shot himself in a hospital in the early '60s after
> being diagnosed with cancer. (not actually familiar with his work, but have
> read "Hollywood Babylon" a few too many times...)
Armendariz was one of the actors who worked on "The Conqueror," the
film that was shot on location downwind of the U.S. nuclear testing
grounds. The long list of the film's victims also includes John Wayne,
Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead and director Dick Powell.
Phoebe9294
According to one biographer, George Sanders' famous "Dear World, I am leaving
you because I am bored" suicide actually stemmed from a fear of his own
deteriorating health, as he had never been sick a day in his life.
trippy
Louis Epstein
: "King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" wrote:
:
: > ...back when he did that hatchet piece on 60 MINUTES about Kurt Cobain's
: > suicide, I wrote in protest to Andy Rooney wondering if he would have talked
: > about Ernest Hemingway in the same manner. He responded very quickly via mail
: > (he jotted a note down on the fax I'd sent him) and pointed out Hemingway's
: > stomach cancer, which would indeed (a) tend to support my point, and (b) place
: > Hemingway within the realm of this thread...
:
: So why don't you make clear what you're talking about: WHAT hatchet
: piece? What
: do you mean by "the same manner"? Support what point of yours? How
: place
: Hemingway in this thread? And what about Hemingway's stomach cancer?
Hemingway had SKIN cancer,which was why he grew a beard...
: If you want your posts to be useful, you've got to start putting
Mary Campbell
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 02:21:13 -0400, Brad Ferguson
> <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote:
>
>>> > What other celebs "put themselves out of their misery" which seems to be
>>> > a growing trend in the last decade or so.
>
> totally sure on this one...
>
> Tiny Boofarina
> Sig forthcoming
Sort of. He was an alcoholic who suffered from depression and I believe
his suicide was attributed to his depression. however, before his death he
had been in a car accident and he was supposedly worried about health
problems caused by the accident -- I don't know what they were or how
serious (his depression may have made them seem worse than they were).
Opus the Penguin
Charles Boyer committed suicide two days after his wife's death in 1978.
Ray Combs, host of the New Family Feud, committed suicide on his wife's 40th
birthday in 1996.
Two of Bing Crosby's sons committed suicide.
George Reeves, the Superman actor.
Abbie Hoffman.
Phil Ochs.
Freddy Prinze.
Doodles Weaver.
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Evan Hulka
> Don't know if these are exactly self mercy killings, but....
>
> Ray Combs, host of the New Family Feud, committed suicide on his wife's 40th
> birthday in 1996.
How's that count as a "mercy killing," aside from the obvious Henny Youngman
"take my wife, please" sense?
> Two of Bing Crosby's sons committed suicide.
Ditto.
> Abbie Hoffman.
>
> Phil Ochs.
These two definitely count. Hoffman was ill with something, don't remember what
(cancer?). Ochs had suffered vocal chord damage in a beating, which, of course,
wasn't too hospitable to a singer (particularly a, by that point, not very
successful one...)
> Freddy Prinze.
Shot himself playing Russian Roulette while high off his ass. How's that a
"mercy killing"?
Hulka
VICSBOOTH1
a growing trend in the last decade or so. >>
I believe Gig Young also ended his own life, but I cannot remember if it was
for health reasons.
Victor
"Machine!!!! Call me a machine!!!!!!!!!"---- Gwent
Opus the Penguin
>Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>Don't know if these are exactly self mercy killings, but....
>>
>>40th birthday in 1996.
>
>How's that count as a "mercy killing," aside from the obvious Henny
>Youngman "take my wife, please" sense?
Read the first line of my post.
>>Two of Bing Crosby's sons committed suicide.
>
>Ditto.
Ditto.
Seriously, though, problems like depression are real and appear to have a
neurological basis. If there's no hope for a cure and the pain is
excruciating, why does the pain have to be physical rather than
psychological for the suicide to count as a mercy killing?
>>Freddy Prinze.
>
>Shot himself playing Russian Roulette while high off his ass. How's that a
>"mercy killing"?
I was tired of Chico and the Man.
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Opus the Penguin
v...@mail.com
> v...@mail.com wrote:
> : "King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" wrote:
> :
> : > ...back when he did that hatchet piece on 60 MINUTES about Kurt Cobain's
> : > suicide, I wrote in protest to Andy Rooney wondering if he would have talked
> : > about Ernest Hemingway in the same manner. He responded very quickly via mail
> : > (he jotted a note down on the fax I'd sent him) and pointed out Hemingway's
> : > stomach cancer, which would indeed (a) tend to support my point, and (b) place
> : > Hemingway within the realm of this thread...
> :
> : So why don't you make clear what you're talking about: WHAT hatchet
> : piece? What
> : do you mean by "the same manner"? Support what point of yours? How
> : place
> : Hemingway in this thread? And what about Hemingway's stomach cancer?
>
> Hemingway had SKIN cancer,which was why he grew a beard...
Hmm. . . . Getting more confusing all the time! What does skin cancer have to do with
stomach cancer? I don't see the point (i.e. coherence) of the original post. Is the
suggestion that Hemingway killed himself as a form of self-euthanasia for medical
reasons? Hemingway was clearly not in his right mind, according to most testimonial
statements, at one time trying to walk into a propeller. This is not the same as a
deliberative act of self-euthanasia (say, Freud's or other well-known examples).
Marty M
"VICSBOOTH1" <vicsb...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I believe Gig Young also ended his own life, but I cannot remember if it
was
> for health reasons.
>
> Victor
Don't remember if he had a reason, however he decided to take his wife out
with him. I believe she was younger than he was, and probably in very good
health. Very sad.
Marty
KLGilbert
almost a prophecy of this in 3 GODFATHERS, another film he did with Wayne.
Thomas Coleman wrote:
> Well, it looks as though Richard Farnsworth is yet another in an
> apparant long list of famous folks who were suffering a great deal from
> a terminal illness and decided to end their own life. Including, IIRC
> Brian Keith
> Faron Young
basti...@my-deja.com
then it is a lot more economical than 'celebrities who commit suicide
because they have health problems that really suck'.
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
> > Didn't Ed Flanders commit suicide over health reasons? I'm not
> > totally sure on this one...
> >
> > Tiny Boofarina
> > Sig forthcoming
>
> Sort of. He was an alcoholic who suffered from depression and I believe
> his suicide was attributed to his depression. however, before his death he
> had been in a car accident and he was supposedly worried about health
> problems caused by the accident -- I don't know what they were or how
> serious (his depression may have made them seem worse than they were).
...hmmm...thus, if Flanders qualifies here, perhaps so does porn star Savannah...
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
experience the advanced stages of his AIDS affliction...seems to me a batch of other
gay porn people have done the same over the years...
Bill Graham
coincidence died 11/11/93.
"King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" <kingd...@radiodigest.com> wrote in
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King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
> > ...I believe gay porn actor and director Fred Halstead killed himself
> rather than
> > experience the advanced stages of his AIDS affliction...seems to me a
> batch of other
> > gay porn people have done the same over the years...
> >
> Also, I think the same is true of porn star Lisa De Leeuw, who by
> coincidence died 11/11/93.
...in rec.arts.movies.erotica the threads have appeared fairly regularly for
the last three or four years debating whether or not De Leeuw (a) actually
died and/or (b) had AIDS...apparently, frequent co-star Marilyn Chambers
commented vaguely to that effect in an interview and independent confirmation
has/had been slow in arrival...now the idea she may have been an AIDS-related
suicide? Hmmm...
Will C
Melora
"William J. Meyerbeck" <meye...@softhome.NoBozos.net> wrote
> Brian Keith shot himself. He had been in excellent health
> all of his life and could not stand being bedridden.
Didn't his daughter die not long before he did? I think there might have
been more than health problems that pushed him over the edge.
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Thomas Coleman <tho...@webtv.net> wrote:
> What other celebs "put themselves out of their misery" which seems
> to be a growing trend in the last decade or so.
I don't think the trend is "growing," except perhaps slightly -- I
think people are simply being more overt about such actions, as the
practice becomes more socially acceptable.
I am a little surprised that no one in this thread has yet mentioned
the author Arthur Koestler. He killed himself (overdose of pills, I
believe) while terminally ill back in the early 1980's. I believe he
had announced his intentions in print about a year prior to the act.
The really shocking thing about that one was that his much younger,
and perfectly healthy, wife killed herself along with him.
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Brian, himself 6/24/97
Daisy (Keith) Sampson, his daughter 5/97
Peg Entwistle, his stepmother 9/18/32
- and don't forget -
his niece Buffy (Anissa Jones from "Family Affair.") 8/28/76
O.K., so it was a reach.
"Melora" <mel...@moscow.com> wrote in message
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> Didn't his daughter die not long before he did? I think there might have
> been more than health problems that pushed him over the edge.
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Thomas Coleman
> perhaps slightly -- I think people are simply
> being more overt about such actions, as the
> practice becomes more socially acceptable.
Also according to another post, Brian Keith evidently offed himself soon
after his daughter commited suicide. And that author's wife commited
suicide along with him so suicide insome cases causes a chain reaction
of suicide or contributes to it so therefore suicie stinks.
James L. Neibaur
terminally ill in 1962 at age 81.
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Lady Taker
>terminally ill in 1962 at age 81.
>
>JN
You know, at age 81, sick and in pain, you shouldn't have to do yourself in.
Solent Green had the right idea about death options.
Volfie (shutup Louissssssss)
James L. Neibaur
You know, at age 81, sick and in pain, you shouldn't have to do yourself in.
Solent Green had the right idea about death options.
--------
Turn them into wafers and eat them.....???
Lady Taker
>Solent Green had the right idea about death options.
>--------
>
>Turn them into wafers and eat them.....???
>
>JN
Wrong. Think back to the *death options*. The wafers were a *body disposal*
idea of whose brilliancy I am not currently addressing, thankyouverymuch.
Volfie (need a flow chart?)
Thomas Coleman
> shouldn't have to do yourself in. Solent Green
> had the right idea about death options.
>
>
>--------
>Turn them into wafers and eat them.....???
That is a DEFINITE POSSIBLE SCENARIO if they ever outlaw eating animals
and legalize euthanasia.
Robert E. Lewis
>
> volfie stated:
>
> You know, at age 81, sick and in pain, you shouldn't have to do yourself in.
> Solent Green had the right idea about death options.
> --------
>
> Turn them into wafers and eat them.....???
Gives a whole new meaning to "Gram crackers," don't it?
Lady Taker
>Gives a whole new meaning to "Gram crackers," don't it?
Okay, THAT was funny.
Volfie (and submitted to alt.humor.best-of-usenet)