I was just thinking that whenever we hear about musicians committing suicide, they're almost always white guys. Are there any counterexamples, especially from the last 30 years?
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)
do ODs count?
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)
johnny ace, if russian roulette counts
― jat jigga jaz (tremendoid), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)
Albert Ayler probably, although there are theories he was murdered as well.
― anagram, Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)
Marques Houston gouged one of his eyes out in an attempt to kill himself, didn't he? Wikipedia ain't saying, but...
― larry_fitzmaurice, Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)
Donny Hathaway.
supposedly
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 21 March 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
it was someone just named Houston (no Marques) who did the eye gouge thing: http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1496457/02022005/houston.jhtml
― methanietanner, Sunday, 21 March 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
Not a musician, but I thought of Justin Fashanu for some reason.
― Freedom, Sunday, 21 March 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
Robert Pilatus (Milli Vanilli)
― Olivier Messiaen Control (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 21 March 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)
Bushwick Bill had his girl shoot him in the head.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 21 March 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
Phyllis Hyman
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
Weldon Irvine
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)
Oh man, JJ Johnson too.
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
D'angelo drowned while swimming fully-clothed in the Mississippi River at midnight
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)
Lateef the Truthspeaker stabbed hiself twice in the heart during an argument with his girlfriend.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)
Commie Paul Robeson attempted in the hospital, son alleged M15 slipped bad acid is his food
― red headed stranger (lukevalentine), Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)
The great Robert Quine, sadly.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:55 (fifteen years ago)
Johnny Ace
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
Quine wasn't black! Was he?
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Sunday, 21 March 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)
No, he wasn't. He was a balding white dude.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/quine/graphics/airportsecurity.jpg
― Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 21 March 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
Paul Williams of the Tempatations.http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7380
― late adopter, Monday, 22 March 2010 06:27 (fifteen years ago)
Larry Troutman, after he shot his brother Roger.http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-08-14/news/california-loved
― late adopter, Monday, 22 March 2010 06:30 (fifteen years ago)
Was just reading some text about Durkheim and saw this:
"Durkheim argued that economic affluence, by stimulating human desires, carries with it dangers of anomic conditions because it "deceives us into believing that we depend on ourselves only," while "poverty protects against suicide because it is a restraint in itself." Since the realization of human desires depends upon the resources at hand, the poor are restrained, and hence less prone to suffer from anomie by virtue of the fact that they possess but limited resources. "The less one has the less he is tempted to extend the range of his needs indefinitely."
Interesting thought.
― soulless orange bimbo (res), Thursday, 22 April 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)