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2008-05-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Photography student who pictured notorious suicide sites for university project found hanging

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-10 06:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 He died in a tragic gardening accident...Authorities said...it's best to leave it unsolved.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-10 09:38|| 2008-05-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 wonder what he did he couldn't forgive himself for?

Posted by sinse 2008-05-10 10:28|| 2008-05-10 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Goethe wrong a hopelessly romantic book called 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', in which a sensitive young man falls in love with a woman he cannot have, so after lots of suffering, he shoots himself in the head and dies.

But though Goethe wrote it as a parody of other syrupy romance literature of the time, he did it so well, that some 2,000 young dumbasses across Europe decided to shoot themselves.

A now much more obscure case was in the US, when I believe a Hungarian violinist recorded a melancholy tune called "The Suicide Song" in the 1920s, before killing himself. There were several instances of dumbasses who later killed themselves and the record was found on their player, which resulted in calls for the record to be banned.

It seemed to have worked, because it has been pretty much forgotten since. I have only seen references to it, and there is nothing on the Internet about it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-10 14:16|| 2008-05-10 14:16|| Front Page Top

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