Articles tagged with: suicide
You know how this is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year? Yeah, you should probably pass that memo to Mindy McCready. Mindy McCready seems to have got the other memo, about it being the time of the year that's so oppressively harrowing that you may as well get really drunk and try to kill yourself by overdosing on pills and slashing your wrists. Because that's what she's done. However, Mindy McCready is now stable following this suicide attempt - which means, following celebrity suicide attempt law, she now gets to make a film about a funny dog with Jennifer Aniston. Yay!
An American Idol contestant infatuated with Paula Abdul enough to paint huge pictures of her has been found dead near Abdul's home. The body of Paula Goodspeed was discovered yesterday near Paula Abdul's mansion in a car with a Paula Abdul-referencing license plate, next to pictures and CDs of Paula Abdul. It's thought that Paula Goodspeed overdosed on prescription drugs, following a less successful suicide attempt near Abdul's home earlier this year. It's sad news, and Goodspeed's death might even make reality producers question their vetting process or treatment of contestants. Maybe they could just let Randy Jackson judge the next season of American Idol alone. After all, nobody can like him that much, can they?
Kind of outside the hecklerspray remit, this, but a sizeable chunk of you seem like a literary bunch and might not have heard yet: writer David Foster Wallace has been found dead at his home in California. Wallace was reportedly found by his wife on Friday evening. He had committed suicide. He was best known for his ...
Office work = boring. We all know this, yet loads of us still do it. But why bother, when you could just kill yourself? Well, maybe that's a bit far, so instead why not just play the game Five Minutes to Kill Yourself? It manages to tick the right boxes - you work in ...
Marilyn Monroe was tricked into killing herself by Bobby Kennedy. So says Dr Jack Hattem, who, backed up by secret FBI files, says the Hollywood bombshell was somehow fooled into believing she would be revived in time as part of a plot involving Senator Robert Kennedy, the brother of JFK, who was gunned down 40 years ago this week. Instead, Monroe, who staged many fake suicide attempts throughout her life to gain sympathy, was left to die by staff and friends. It's all in Hattem's new book Marilyn Monroe: Murder By Consent. Certainly, Marilyn Monroe may have been dead for 46 years, but that doesn't mean that people have stopped speculating about the circumstances of her death. We spoke to Dr Hattem and listened to some of his more compelling claims, including where Kennedy was on the night of Marilyn Monroe's death and why the recently unearthed Marilyn Monroe sex tape might not be the only one knocking about.
You know when you tell a girl that you love her and if she doesn't love you back you'll kill yourself? Yeah, apparently not such a great tactic. Maybe that's where we've been going wrong all these years. And not just us, either - Uma Thurman's alleged stalker Jack Jordan has fallen foul of this weird quirk of female nature as well. In court yesterday, Uma Thurman's mother described a phone call with Jordan where he said he'd kill himself if he and her daughter weren't predestined to be together. And, surprisingly enough, this didn't end in Uma Thurman leaping into Jack Jordan's arms and yelling "Oh kiss me, you great big psychologically-deranged schnookie-noogs!" Women, huh? Can't live with them, can't disturb them to the point of shrieking hysteria.
The Harry Potter books are irritating and twee and 'wouldn't it be a wonderful wheeze to buy a midnight feast from the tuck shop', aren't they.
No. No they're not. They can't be because the woman who wrote the Harry Potter books, JK Rowling, has admitted that she's suffered from depression and battled suicidal thoughts before.
Of course, this all happened before Harry Potter got successful and JK Rowling got preposterously rich and stuff. Now any time JK Rowling gets a bit sad she'll go to a poor person's house, buy their furniture and pets for a tenner and set it all on fire in front of them until she's happy again. Works every time.
If you'd starred in as many woefully identical sitcoms as Heather Locklear, suicide would probably come as a sweet release.
But Heather Locklear is made of sterner stuff than you. Heather Locklear absolutely didn't try and kill herself last weekend, even though a 911 operative, the Los Angeles Fire Department, two ambulances and Heather Locklear's own psychiatrist thought she had.
But don't worry, because it was all a false alarm. Heather Locklear wasn't really trying to commit suicide, which means that we can all go back to forgetting she ever even existed anyway again.
