# Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154 "2004-06-01T22:31:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154/21 "2004-06-05T22:24:25Z")
It definately was the world he lived in - although my world of youth was not the same as his, it was very similar. Back in the 80’s & 90’s when I was part of the punk scene - and I would say between 25 and 40% of the people I knew in the scene from 1985 to now have died - so 13 looks like a drop in the bucket. OD’s, suicide, accidents, murder, Hep C, and many other nasty thing - one of the first when I was 15 someone I had met only days before jumped off a building as I was heading back to the abandoned warehouse where we all we living till now when people I know are sick with Hep C & HIV and may be dying any day now. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154/22 "2004-06-05T23:27:01Z")
I interviewed Jim Carroll over the phone once for my college newspaper. I hadn’t read the book, so I rented the movie and watched it just before I called him. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154/23 "2004-06-06T21:21:35Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > How bad were you hooked? How long were you on it? What was it like doing it? What was it like quitting? > > ( Errrr…seems like a hijack to get personal, but since you asked…if you count from when I did it the first time to when I did it the last time, almost ten years. Not that was doing it all the time then. What was it like? It was great. It was wonderful. Shooting dope feels fantastic…to quote Trainspotting, of _course_ it’s good…you don’t think we’re stupid do you??? Of course, as the very aptly named Trainspotting implies, it’s great if you want to give up on having any real life…(hmmm…which is of course part of the atraction.) Quitting sucked. It hurts ya know. Kind of pisses me off that cigarette smokers get gum and all kinds of things to get over withdrawl and all dope fiends can do is go on a methadone program…which is more than I needed, really. Actually, I got of the physical part with some pills from my dentist (in a week…they don’t let you do that on a methadone program…). ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154/24 "2004-06-07T00:49:07Z")
Do you listen to [www.radioio.com](http://www.radioio.com) (80s)? I ask because I play it frequently at work and at home, but have heard the song three times this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Rococo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Rococo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rococo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154/25 "2025-07-17T16:13:58Z")
Looks like I’m the guy who gets to re-open an old thread… So I was browsing around here on SD and noticed the reactions of folks back in 2003 and 2004 to Jimmy Carroll’s song / basketball diaries. Just now, sitting & wondering to myself how all of these (and my own) reactions would be if this theead opened today..Its sad but true to say that a whole lot more of us have those loved ones who’ve passed now in 2025 than in '03. No I don’t just mean its 22 years after the thread was born and Grandpa passed, I mean we’ve now lived with COVID and we’ve unfortunately been thoroughly introduced to Fentanyl. In some cities the murder rate is higher than it was then (On the bright side most violent crime has actually declined in many cities over the last 20+ yrs but there are a few exceptions..) Crazy but take a few steps back and try to remember life 20+ years ago. Wild really.. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154/26 "2025-07-17T17:50:45Z")
On the other hand, far fewer people I know now die of HIV, HCV, or certain kinds of cancer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154.md?page=1)