# Celebrity Suicides

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 16, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143 "2007-03-16T03:34:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/81 "2007-03-17T18:30:16Z")

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**Friar Ted**  
If you are referring to Sergeant Carter of Gomer Pyle USMC, that was Frank Sutton and he died of a heart attack.

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**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/82 "2007-03-18T01:49:15Z")

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[QUOTE=if6was9]  
**Bud Dwyer** , although he was certainly more famous for his suicide than anything he did in politics.  
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Of course, Bud Dwyer did it live during a press conference which probably helped a bit.

[Live video of the suicide (definitely not for the squeamish…)](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a344fc5e74)

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**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/83 "2007-03-18T02:17:09Z")

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Yukio Mishima

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/84 "2007-03-18T02:31:58Z")

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Perhaps even more shocking, was the on air suicide of newscaster [Christine Chubuck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck).  
(It’s a Wikipedia article. No graphics or videos of the suicide).  
Sad.

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**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/85 "2007-03-18T05:07:22Z")

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Actually, Kurt Cobain didn’t committ [suicide](http://www.justiceforkurt.com/) , he was murdered by his wife Courtney Love and a man named Mike Dewitt.

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**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/86 "2007-03-18T05:11:58Z")

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[John Kennedy Toole](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole)

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