I was reading about Bollywood actress jiah khan suicide and then came across many other celebs who committed suicide, here are few.
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Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a No.1 hit single with Runaway in 1961. Shannon was extremely popular in the early 1960’s and produced dozens of hit singles. He suffered from extreme depression and alcoholism throughout his life and committed suicide on February 8, 1990, with a 22 caliber rifle. He was 56-years-old. Del Shannon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Brad Delp was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Boston. Boston is an American rock band from Boston,Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists. Boston has sold over 31 million records in the United States alone. On March 9, 2007, Delp was found dead in his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Delp, who was 55, died from the smoke of two charcoal grills he lit inside his sealed bathroom.
He was found by his fiancee Pamela Sullivan lying on a pillow on his
bathroom floor with a suicide note pinned to his shirt. The official cause of death was listed as carbon monoxide poisoning. Delp was known for his considerate nature and had left a note on the front door of his house warning that there would be carbon monoxide present. He left private notes to all his family members and a public note that read: "Mr. Brad Delp. Je suis une âme solitaire. (French portion translates as "I am a lonely soul.")
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Charles Rocket was an American film and television actor, notable for his tenure as a cast member on Saturday Night Live as well as for his
appearances in the film Dumb and Dumber and in the series Touched by an Angel. He is the latest member of the Saturday Night Live family to die under sudden and violent circumstances, although you rarely hear about Rocket’s death in the media.
Charles Rocket was cast on Saturday Night Live for the 1980–81 season,which followed the departure of the remaining members of the show's popular original cast and original executive producer Lorne Michaels. Lorne Michaels has been with SNL for all seasons except for his hiatus in the early 1980s (seasons 6–10). Singled out by new executive producer Jean Doumanian as the star of her new ensemble, Rocket was promoted as a cross between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. He was given the role of anchor for the show's Weekend Update news parody, and was featured in many sketches. He was a "utility player" of sorts, appearing in more sketches than any other male cast member that season with the exception of Joe Piscopo.
Charles Rocket was found dead in a field near his Connecticut home on
October 7, 2005; his throat had been cut. He was 56 years old. The state medical examiner later ruled the death a suicide. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered.
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Yukiko Okada was a Japanese idol singer in the early 1980’s. She was
adored by millions of fans and was recently ranked by the people of Japan as the 17th most important historical female figure in history. Yukiko Okada was accepted to a TV program much like American Idol today. The program was Star Tanjō! on Nippon Television. In March 1983, she won Star Tanjō!. Okada went on to release a number of hit singles.
Around 10 o'clock April 8, 1986, the 18-year-old Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and sobbing. Two hours later, Okada jumped to her death from the seven-story Sun Music Agency building. The reason for the suicide is still unknown. Her untimely death resulted in many copycat suicides and the christening of the neologism "Yukko Syndrome" in reference to copycat suicides in Japan
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Kurt Cobain was an American songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Nirvana. The single Smells Like Teen Spirit from Nirvana's second album Nevermind (1991), launched the band into the mainstream, popularizing a subgenre of alternative rock called grunge. Nirvana has sold over 50 million records worldwide. During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression, his fame and public image, as well as the professional and lifelong personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love.
On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head
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Ruslana Korshunova happened to be a Kazakh supermodel that had a Russian heritage. She had posed in Vogue and had represented designers such as Vera Wang and Nina Ricci. She was discovered in 2003 and was immediately distinguished by her long, knee-length, chestnut colored hair. Part of what made her suicide so bizarre was the method she chose. June 28, somewhere around 2:30 P.M., Ruslana “fell” out of her ninth-floor balcony, after having watched the movie “Ghost” with a former boyfriend in Manhattan. Friends have said that she was usually a cheerful person and had never shown any signs of distress or feelings of failure, although there were things written on some social networking sites that seemed to suggest otherwise. She at one time stated “Death is a celebration of life…there is hope” and “I’m so lost. Will I ever find myself?” Ruslana Korshunova’s death was ruled as a suicide because the police could find no other witnesses. However, something odd that was noticed at the time of her death was that her trademark hair was considerably shorter, and looked as if it had been cut in haste.
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Mary Kay Bergman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Jewish parents and was a self-proclaimed nerd. Science fiction and fantasy were two main passions of hers, but she had always been an avid fan of Disney. She not only voiced the parts of Ms. Cartman and Wendy on “Southpark”, but she also was the voice of Timmy Turner in “The Fairly Oddparents” and was the official voice of Snow White for Disney. Bergman had been married for 9 years seemed happy. Until her death, no one had known that she had suffered from chronic and acute depression for a multitude of years, despite having reached many of her goals and achieving a dream profession. Sadly though, on a Thursday night Mary Kay Bergman shot herself in the head. She was found an hour and 20 minutes later by her husband and friend, along with two suicide notes that have not yet been released.
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Brynn Hartman was the third wife of famous actor and comedian Phil Hartman and the third time, in this case, was anything but a charm. Most of us will recognize Phil Hartman from the long running television show “Saturday Night Live”, where actors are known to improv a lot of their lines. Brynn was a former model who had a history of drug and alcohol abuse throughout their marriage, as well as behavioral problems. No-one knows if it was their two children, or Phil’s undying love for Brynn, but he was determined to make this marriage work. It ended up costing him his life. On the evening of May 27, Brynn and Phil had one of many arguments about her drug usage. Phil then went to sleep, and was later shot by a high and intoxicated Brynn. Brynn then confessed the murder to two people before she shooting herself in the head, taking her own life. Phil was shot twice in the head and once in the side and is believed to have died instantly. There was speculation that Andy Dick had provided Brynn Hartman with the cocaine she took that night, spawning her psychotic behavior, but he denies those claims to this day.
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Elliott Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and lived for a long time in Portland, Oregon. Elliott had a gift for creating music that took you to another place and his voice was totally unique. He was best known for having a large role in the creation of the soundtrack for “Good Will Hunting”, and for an Academy Award nomination for his song “Miss Misery”. Elliott had had suicidal tendencies before, having tried to jump off a cliff while drunk, only to have a tree break his fall. While in Portland he began to dabble in drugs. Following an argument with his girlfriend in late October, Smith was found in the kitchen with a knife in his chest after his girlfriend heard him scream. Elliott Smith died at 1:36 P.M.
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Jonathan Brandes was born in Danbury, Connecticut, and began his film career at age 5. He starred in films “The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter”, as well as the film “Ladybugs”, with the late Rodney Dangerfield. Although those movies formed biggest impression of him, it seems Brandes was most known for his role on “SeaQuest”, a television show created by Stephen Spielberg. It is in SeaQuest that he became a teen idol. Friends of the actor said he seemed to be depressed about his lack of a career, despite the fact that he was working on a film in his directorial debut, as well as other promising things in the works. Jonathan Brandes hanged himself on the evening of November 11th and died in the hospital the next day.
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Andrew Koenig was best known as the character “Boner” on the sitcom hit “Growing Pains”, . He also played The Joker in a short film based on the “Batman” series, but otherwise didn’t have too much of an extensive resume. Koenig was said to mostly enjoy working behind the scenes and he was deeply involved in human rights. In February 2010 Koenig went to Canada to see the Olympics and never returned. He was later found hanged in Vancouver.
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Dana Plato was born in Moore, Oklahoma, and was best known for her role as Kimberley on “Diff’rent Strokes”. She was let go from the show because of an unplanned pregnancy. Not able to reach the status she wanted, she became involved in darker pastimes, and was arrested for armed robbery in 1991. She got breast implants and appeared in “Playboy” in the hopes of regaining stardom. She later moved in to films of a more erotic nature. She appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” the day before her death and claimed she had been sober for 10 years. Callers called to defend her and commend her on turning her life around, but Dana went on to overdose on pills the following day in a vehicle outside of her fiancé’s mothers’ house. Sadly, Dana’s son also committed suicide
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Peg Entwistle, Born in Port Talbot, Wales, UK, her dream, like so many others, was to become an actress. She started out on Broadway and went on to be known as a comedienne. Her last film was called “Thirteen Women” and, apparently, received very poor reviews. Upset by the comments of the critics, as well as the greatly reduced screen time featuring her, Peg walked up the hill featuring the famous Hollywood sign, climbed atop it and jumped off. Strangely enough, the following day a letter came in the mail for Entwistle offering her a role in a play about a woman who commits suicide.
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too sad :(
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What a macabre thread. :/
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wow...I had no idea that Dana Plato had committed suicide......and then her son too!!
I want to say how sad but it almost seems that when one person in a family takes their own life then the others are pre-disposed as well.
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I was reading about Bollywood actress jiah khan suicide and then came across many other celebs who committed suicide, here are few.
When was this? :O .... She was the one in Ghajini, right?
Horrible.
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^yes..she was the one... :(