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Bizarre Celebrity Suicides

in no way does this website or its creator condone, encourage or admire these methods. this is just a compilation of some of the more imaginative



Imaginative, unusual, creative ways to "end it all."

Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) - singer

1954 --- suicide playing Russian roulette.

Janet Elaine Adkins

1990 --- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

Clara Blandick - actress (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz)

1962 --- sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head. She was 81-years-old and suffering from crippling arthritis.

Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud)

1996 --- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

Hart Crane - poet

1932 --- suicide by drowning. On a steamship, he bid his fellow passengers farewell and jumped overboard. Last words.

Thich Quang Duc - Buddhist monk

1963 --- set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest government persecution of Buddhists.

R. Budd Dwyer - politician (Pennsylvania)

1987 --- Convicted of bribery and conspiracy in federal court and about to be sentenced, he called a press conference; there, in front of spectators and TV cameras, he shot himself in the mouth.

Lillian Millicent Entwistle - actress

1932 --- suicide by jumping from the 'H' of the 'HOLLYWOOD(LAND)' sign.

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi politician

1945 --- with his wife, poisoned their five children, then committed suicide at Hitler's Berlin bunker.

Hermann Goering - Nazi politician

1946 --- poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

Donny Hathaway - singer

1979 --- suicide by jumping from his room on the 15th floor of New York's Essex House Hotel.

Rudolf Hess - Nazi politician

1987 --- last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, strangled himself with an electrical cord at age 93, in Spandau Prison.

Chris Chubbuck - newscaster

1974 --- shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast on Florida TV station WXLT-TV. She died 14 hours later. Last words.

Michael Hutchence - rock musician (Inxs)

1997 --- hanged himself with a belt in his room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Sydney, Australia. (Perhaps auto-erotic asphyxiation.)

Eugene Izzi - writer

1997 --- hanged himself from an 11th-floor window on Michigan Ave., Chicago. Perhaps by accident while researching a scene for a book.

Jim Jones - leader of a religious cult known as the Peoples Temple

1978 --- killed himself after watching more than 900 of his followers die from the ingestion of Kool-Ade laced with cyanide.

Terry Kath - rock musician (Chicago)

1978 --- suicide playing Russian roulette. Last words.

Jesse William Lazear - US physician

1900 --- voluntarily infected with & died of yellow fever as part of Walter Reed's research.

Vachel Lindsay - poet

1931 --- suicide by drinking a bottle of lye (Lysol). Last words.

Kiyoko Matsumoto - 19 year old student

1933 --- suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima, Japan. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing.

Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka) - Japanese writer

1970 --- suicide by disembowelment and decapitation (a ritual called seppuku or hara-kiri) as a protest of the Westernization of Japan. He killed himself in front of an assembly (which he himself called) of all of his students that he was teaching at a university at that time.

Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand

1996 --- suicide by intentionally terminating treatment for prostate cancer.

Claudius Drusus Germanicus Nero - Roman emperor

68 AD --- suicide by stabbing himself with a sword.

Sylvia Plath - poet

1963 --- suicide by inhaling gas from her oven.

Margaret Mary Ray - celebrity stalker

1998 --- suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.

Bobby Sands - IRA activists

1981 --- starved on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

Socrates - philosopher

399 BC --- required to drink hemlock to end his life after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - painter

1890 --- shot himself; he died two days later.

Lupe Velez - actress

1944 --- overdose with sleeping pills; she was 4 months pregnant.

{There is a much-circulated, but undocumented story that she had dressed in her best outfit for the suicide and took her pills, washing them down with alcohol. Getting sick to her stomach, she rushed to the bathroom, but tripped and fell; drowning in the toilet.} Last words.

Horace Wells - pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s

1848 --- arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid; he anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephens Woolf) - writer

1941 -- committed suicide by drowning.

Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) - actor

1978 --- shot and killed his wife of 3 weeks, Kim Schmidt, then shot himself.

don't drink the kool-aid.

Holy cow. I am into celebrities and trivia so this made for an interesting read. Thanks for posting.

lady cop wrote: don't drink the kool-aid.


Am rolling my eyes at you LC

devist8me wrote: Holy cow. I am into celebrities and trivia so this made for an interesting read. Thanks for posting.


cool will keep my eyes open for goodies for you

minks wrote: Am rolling my eyes at you LC yeah, so does my sergeant!! LOL whenever he sees me coming!

lady cop wrote: yeah, so does my sergeant!! LOL whenever he sees me coming!


go figure huh heh heh

You say you want bizzare deaths?

Here you go:

A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a river in Italy in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out, swim to shore ----where a tree blew over killing him.

Mike Stewart 31, of Dallas was filming a movie on the dangers of low-level bridges, when the truck he was standing on passed under a low-level bridge----killing him.

I've got a couple of more, but I have to find them.

very bizzaroh

Walter hallas, 26, in Leeds , England, was so afraid of dentists in 1979 that he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his toothache by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall down, hitting his head on the concrete, and he died of a broken skull.

George Schwartz narrowly escaped death when his factory was flattened by a blast in 1983. One wall remained standing. After treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene, where the remaining wall collapsed---killing him.

Jives wrote: Walter hallas, 26, in Leeds , England, was so afraid of dentists in 1979 that he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his toothache by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall down, hitting his head on the concrete, and he died of a broken skull.

George Schwartz narrowly escaped death when his factory was flattened by a blast in 1983. One wall remained standing. After treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene, where the remaining wall collapsed---killing him.


Sadly those make me want to giggle.

Depressed because he couldn't get a job, Romolo Ribolla, 42, put a gun to his head and threatened to kill himself in 1981. His wife pleaded for him not to do it, and he finally relented and threw the gun to the floor. It went off---killing his wife.

Mike Nelson was hit by a car in New York in 1977, but he got up uninjured. A bystander told him to lay back down in front of the car and pretend to be injured so that he could collect the insurance money. The car then rolled forward---killing him.

Two West German motorists were guiding their cars in opposite directions in a heavy fog near Guttersloh in 2000. Each was too ear the center of the road, so that they could see the middle stripe. Each was traveling too fast for conditions. As they hung their heads out their windows to see, their faces impacted each other. Both men died of severe head injuries. Their cars were unscratched.

Trying to give his wife a good scare to stop her incessant nagging, Hungarian jake Fen built himself a harness to make it look like he had hung himself. When his wife came home and saw him dangling there, she fainted and collapsed. Hearing the disturbance, a neighbor came over to investigate. finding what she thought were two corpses, she seized the opportunity to loot the home. As she was leaving the house, arms laden with stolen goods, the outraged Mr. Fen kicked her stoutly in the rear. The woman gave one long shriek and fell dead of a heart attack. Mr. Fen was aquitted of manslaughter and lives happily with his wife to this day.

While motorcycling through the countryside, Cristo Falatti came to a railway crossing as the gates went down. As he sat there idling, he was joined by a farmer with a goat. the farmer proceeded to tether the goat to the crossing gate. A few moments later a horse and cart drew up behind Falatti, folowed in short order by a man in a sports car. When the train roared through the intersection, the horse was startled and bit Falatti on the arm. Not a man to be trifled with, Falatti punched the horse on the nose.

In consequence, the horse's owner jumped out of his cart and began scuffling with Falatti. the horse, who was not up to this much excitement, backed up, driving the cart into the sports car. At this, the sports car driver joined the fray. the farmer came forward to try to pacify the men, but as he did so, he was thrown by Falatti onto the goat's tether. the scared goat tried to run, entagling the tether around the farmer's neck.

At this point the crossing gate rose, strangling both the goat and the farmer to death.

And the winner is.....

BOB FINNEGAN! In 1976, Bob finnegan, a 22 year old irishman, was crossing the busy Falls Road in Belfast when he ws struck by a taxi and flung over it's roof. The taxi quickly dorve away, but as poor Bob lay in the roadway, another car ran into him, rolling him into the gutter. It, too, drove on.

As a knot of gawkers gathered to insepct the "magnetic" irishman, a delivery van plowed through the crowd, leaving in it's wake three injured bystanders and you guessed it... and even more battered Bob Finnegan.

When the fourth vehicle came along, the crowd wisely scattered and only one person was hit this time, BOB FINNEGAN!!

Bob was hit by four cars in two minutes and suffered a fractured skull, a borken pelvis, two borken legs, and assorted lacerations but

BOB LIVED!!!!!!! :wah:

Wow Jives, where do you get all these?

Fun reading, by the way.

Here's one...and I feel comfortable with the inside source. A stunt man died performing a jump on Vancouver film. This death occured after another stuntman (my friend) refused to do the act and informed them exactly how and why the man would die. A friend of his then took the job and died exactly as described. Last I heard it was still under investigation. Three or four years later.