Queens borough President Donald Manes committed suicide by plunging an eight inch knife into his chest after being put on hold while talking with his psychiatrist!
Oh, I am so going to hell for laughing at this…
I’m right behind you. Wonder if the knife had any “special significance”…
My favorite suicide of all time is punk rocker Darby Crash of The Germs. The Germs was fairly successful in the early punk scene but broke up in the late 70’s. As his fame was fading, he committed suicide with an intentional heroin overdose figuring death would make him and his music legendary like Jimi Hendrix. He would never know how tragically wrong he was. He died on December 7th, 1980…the day before John Lennon was assassinated. It would be an understatement to say that his death was overshadowed by other news and didn’t get any attention.
This one…well…damn…I heard the news on the Dope…a theater poster of Gray hung on the wall next to my computer when I read what happened (or what they believed happened at the time). He was probably one of my biggest influences as a writer and a performer.
Damn, I didn’t even know he was dead.
Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger both hung themselves.
So did Phil Ochs.
Stuart Adamson of Big Country hanged himself.
As long as authors count, Vachel Lindsay swallowed Lysol, and Hart Crane jumped off a ship.
Yeah, that one for me too. Poor Stuart wasn’t a very happy man.
Another unhappy Scots musician was Billy McKenzie of The Associates.
the Singing Nun and her lesbian lover! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Actress Elizabeth Hartman threw herself out a window after a long battle with depression.
This thread could be retitled Supposed Celebrities That You Have Never Heard Of
Science fiction writer H Beam Piper shot himself after thinking he was penniless and a failure. His agent had died and he didn’t know he had made several sales.
Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli.
If we’re counting massive overdoses, Alan Ladd died from alcohol and sedatives in 1964. Causing my mom to exclaim, “Alan Ladd is dead?!” when she heard about it…in 2000. :o
Bud Dwyer, although he was certainly more famous for his suicide than anything he did in politics.
May I ask where you heard this? IMDB says he died in a car crash, too. Unless they’re characterizing getting run over by one’s trailer as a car accident. shrug
I remember reading it years ago as a reply to an innacurate cite of him being another Hollywood drug-ovedose, but I can find nothing to support that so I retract it.
Capucine, probably best remembered as Madame Clouseau in the original Pink Panther, but also in Walk on the Wild Side and What’s New Pussycat? and a ton of French films.