Suicide Saturday!
How many websites offer that, I ask you. It's always a laugh over here at TTWS.
Three stories for today:
1) Brad Delp, of the execrable band Boston, died last week. His death has now been ruled a suicide. This article tries to explain his death, but is suicide ever the result of a single cause? Maybe in India, where farmers kill themselves after they get into horrible debt (see story No. 2), but with someone who calls himself a "lonely soul," there's probably a less pragmatic reason for his wanting to opt out.
2) Nearly 75,000 people commit suicide each year in India. Click here for more.
3) Most sensationally, a secret FBI report claims that Marilyn Monroe's death wasn't exactly suicide. Conspiracy theorists have been saying this for years--that Bobby Kennedy didn't want her to disclose their affair, and he and Peter Lawford cooked up a plan to spike her sleeping pills. Her maid was also involved. Here's more of the story.
Comments
Even though a newspaper from Australia might not be quite aware of the vicious attacks launched against anyone with "liberal" political tendencies by the FBI director J. Edger Hoover, you should be.
This report smacks of a FBI hatchet job. Where did the evidence come from? As a side note, you might read the following article which delinates the FBI's false reports created to fire and prevent advancement to any federal position of Clark Kerr, a member of the California University board of regents. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/10/MN64831.DTL
Any report produced by the FBI from this time should definately be viewed with complete skepticism.
Posted by: Luther T. Garcia | March 17, 2007 02:43 PM
And Richard Jeni. Jeni supposedly had some sort of terminal illness.
Suicide generally calls us to evaluate both our impressions of people and the impression that wealth and fame automatically produce happiness.
There is so much going on under the surface that most people would never know.
Posted by: Anthony | March 18, 2007 06:57 PM