RIP David Carradine.

[Shine]

Found dead in Bangkok hotel room, suicide by hanging.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b127408_kung_fus_kill_bills_david_carradine_dead.html

To live all the way into his early 70's and then just give up. How sad. :(

I wish his soul peace.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Oh No! That's just so wrong!

:cry:

[malta blue]

2. oh no!

I heard he was gone, this is the first I hear of suicide.

How tragic :cry:

[Kat45]

3. Whoa! That's a shock!

RIP David.

[Haole Girl]

4. Oh no

That's just sad.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. From me, too...

Poor tortured soul...

[FloridaJudy]

6. OMG no!

How tragic. I always loved his performances.

[Lorax7844]

8. awesome Vonnegut quote btw

[Duer 157099]

7. I totally don't think it was suicide. It was an accident

Seems that plenty of males are into this thing -- it's apparently similar to what "the kids" are into these days

Scary shit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking_game

[Jeep789]

9. 20% of 18 year olds? You have to be kidding me.

Some scary chit, if true.

[Pachamama]

10. This was the more likely game that David was playing....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_asphyxiation

Him and Michael Hutchence of INXS have lots to talk about....RIP David...loved his movies...

[malta blue]

11. Just so wrong!

Hold your breath dammit! Why strangle yourself?

:cry:

[Pachamama]

12. I agree that its just so wrong....

The only thing that I can imagine of why people would do this is no different than what lead people to experiment with more and more and different kinds of drugs that have more powerful effects than the last drug they took. It has to do with addictions, with trying to achieve a feeling that exceeds the other.

Its the crossing into the next zone that I think drives someone to go there....sadly, I don't think anyone, drug addict or someone who pursues satisfaction and orgasm through strangulation and being unconsious will ever find the true bliss they seek so desperately...

[malta blue]

13. sadly, you are so right

:cry:

A very close friend of mine died of a cardiac infection that he contracted while travelling in Kenya. He was travelling in Kenya because he became a ketamine addict, and that was the only place he could acquire it in the quantities he wanted. At the time of his death, a doctor said he was using enough to tranquilize a lion. It was having barely any effect on him

He was actually working on a book about addiction and religion when he just went to sleep and never woke up. He was 32.

[Pachamama]

15. It is also the search for an "even greater high than the last" that sadly makes the risk so high

I am sorry for the loss of your friend....enough Ketamine to tranquilize a lion...and had he made it past that conditioning and tolerance phase, he would have probably eventually been seeking out enough Ketamine to tranquilize an elephant. Sadly, I too have lost two friends to drugs - one to heroine, the other cocaine. And each of them followed that phase of needing to seek the even greater high than the last until they overdosed. Its why the whole search of an orgasmic high in asphixation in sexual orgasm is so risky - because in searching for the even greater high, the risk of death becomes greater.

I hope your friend found some peace in his last days, especially as he wrote his book. Sadly, the addiction won out before he could conquer it. :hug:

[malta blue]

16. Thanks for your kind words....

Yes, he was always in search of "something bigger and better" than the last time...

He first became a Hassidic Jew, hoping that would bring him closer to god - problem is he looked for god in drugs most of the time. So he tried going straight, and it didn't work for him. During the Israel/Lebanon conflict three years ago, his home in northern Israel was bombed and he discovered ketamine in an army first aid kit. He used it to help treat injured civilians, and then tried it himself. It was his downfall....

[jeff30997]

14. Oh shit !!!

I love the guy! :(

Thanks for the news Shine

[applegrove]

17. RIP