Friday, June 05, 2009

Life and little death questions

So, it's a beautiful Friday, sunny and getting warmer. What better time to sit and ponder the idea of having a family member pleasure himself to death.

David Carridine was 72. Let us assume he had adult children. Just how does one react at one's father's funeral knowing that he died this way? i.e. how can you not laugh about it. Is it even possible to grieve knowing Dad died while...well, you know.

It has to be the most pointless, stupidest death ever.

I wonder of all the men who've died doing this, and I'm certain there are more than we can imagine, how many died on their first try? I'd say most are probably first-timers with bad timing. Who knows?

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, as SusieQ put in in the comments section of your previous post, this is also how Michael Hutchence died. What is it with celebs and auto-erotic asphyxiation? Is this just the tip of the iceberg- are all celebs doing this and these are the only two dopes who got it wrong?

By the way, one of the arguments put forth by his manager about why this couldn't be a suicide was that "he just bought a car". There you go - just give new cars to suicidal people rather than drugs and it will prevent them from killing themselves. Who could leave this world knowing a new Toyota was parked in the driveway?

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

I myself am kept alive solely by the thought of trying out a new Bixi.

(Watch. I will have the name wrong and this joke will fall flat on its face...in a closet).

Anonymous said...

The name is right, but for anyone not living in Montreal, I am sure they are thinking "????"

Anonymous said...

The name is right, but for anyone not living in Montreal, I am sure they are thinking "????"

Anonymous said...

Why did that just repeat? I did everything right.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

It happens.
Like dying accidentally, which brings me to my next post...
what a segue*.

*A segue is not to be confused with a bixi.

Anonymous said...

Oh, does this ever call for a poem:

David Carradine, at 72
Was looking for something different to do,
So his neck he tied up and decided to hang,
All the while whacking his wang.
Oh, the fun he had...oh the thrill,
But sadly he forgot that "no air" can kill.
So now he is dead, the foolish old coot!
And all for a little rooty-toot-toot!


JAW fan

Susieq said...

What a wonderful poem!!! And for those of us outside Montreal, what the hell is a bixi??
Did his manager really say that?

Anonymous said...

A Bixi is a bike-taxi - here in Mtl they've created this new system where there are bike racks with say 10-15 bikes and you pay a fee and unlock them and ride them around the city and when you're done you just return it to any other bixi bike rack. And there are dozens of bike racks all over the city.

And his manager did say that about the car, but it was in a sentence listing a bunch of other reasons he couldn't have committed suicide (He had kids was one - but it definitely ended with "And he just bought a new car").

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Bixi stands for "bike-taxi"??? Well. The things I learn here. I had no idea why it was called that. Honestly. Some people know everything. thanks!

Susieq said...

OK, thanks for the explanation. They have a similar system in Paris. And, if he was really suicidal, he wouldn't care about any of those things....

Susieq said...

OK, have you read the latest? His lawyer reckons he could have been killed by some secret society of martial arts assassins or something - are the family in denial or what?

Anonymous said...

Must be the same ones that killed Bruce Lee.

And say - he was 72. Wouldn't Viagra have been safer?

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

The Society of White Fang Shaolin of new Toyotas? Frankly, if they were martial artists, they wouldn't have needed to tie up his genitals, right? They would've just squeezed his throat in some evil Death Grip and he'd be dead. I've seen a lot of these movies. I know!