did william hung die of a heroine overdose or is that just an "urban legend?"?
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Hes still alive.\n\nAnd no hes not hung. Thats another urban legend!\n\nCheck this link http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/hung.asp
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In the early morning hours of June 16, 1959, three days before a planned wedding to Lenore Lemmon, Reeves went to bed after a long night with guests. Shortly thereafter, a shot rang out, and he was found dead in his bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head. An official inquiry concluded that the death was suicide. His disbelieving mother conducted an investigation of her own, which was inconclusive.\n\nWith suicide the official verdict, much speculation resulted as to whether it was because of his failed career. It was also noted that he had suffered a concussion in an auto accident shortly before that event, leading some to suspect that his mental health had been compromised. These facts are recounted in Gary Grossman's 1976 book, Superman: Serial to Cereal. At that time, suicide was the predominant presumed cause of death, and various reasons were cited to justify or explain it.\n\nIn recent years, there have been questions raised again as to whether Reeves' death was really a suicide, or whether it was a murder covered up by Hollywood insiders, similar to the claims about suspicious (or allegedly suspicious) deaths of other Hollywood notables (such as Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Todd and Paul Bern).\n\nThe 1996 book Hollywood Kryptonite, by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, discusses the issues, the doubts by friends and relatives, the forensic evidence as to whether suicide was even physically possible, whether the shooting was properly investigated by police, and alternative theories. The book makes an interesting argument for Reeves having been the target of a "hit" due to having spurned a long-time lover with mob connections. The hypothesis is that the aforementioned car accident was also an attempted hit. There is no question that Reeves' circle of friends included some unsavory characters. There are groups trying to muster support for re-opening the investigation. However, the allegations and unanswered questions are unlikely ever to be resolved, due to the passage of time and the deaths of apparently everyone who might know the truth of the matter, so for the present, suicide remains the official cause of death
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I'm a hospital tech, and I cannot give you specifics due to Hippa laws but I can tell you this:\nI was in the ER with a patient that had overdosed. The body rejects all poisons and therefore the person was asphyixiating, hemorraging, and experiencing aneurisms.\nOn top of this, we had to run several IV's and strap the person down as they were screaming in severe pain.\nSo in my opinion, it can be a very painful death.
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Tis truly a flower. And good looking up on her. In a book I have called Severed, the killer is from my home town of Canton, OH. Whether this is true or not I do not know. But damn it  is weird going by where he used to live as the houses still stand. It is by the Timken Roller Bearing Co. (And hear I though the most f*cked up thing to come from my area was my friend Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson LOL) Too bad the movie they did did not do anything for her.
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My guess:  This is most likely a case of homicide. Signs of drowning does not prove anything. The important clues is:\nThe subject was naked. Generally women always dress up before comitting suicide, to protect their modesty.
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For a long time (since at least the middle 1800's) people have subscribed to the 'swoon theory', that Jesus did not actually die but just fainted from lack of blood and recovered later after being taken down.\n\nThere are several problems with that, the most important of which is the fact that it was not just a bunch of townies lynching a guy they didn't like by slow torture, it was an official execution, capital punishment Roman Style. The executioners were paid professionals. The Roman state was pretty brutal, and you can count on it that if an executioner let someone off the cross alive, he'd be up  there himself next. They wouldn't let a condemned man go without checking to make sure he was dead any more than we'd let a guy off the gurney to have his lethal injection flushed from his veins. \n\nBut, some said, they didn't have modern medical knowledge. How could they be sure Jesus was dead? Well, driving a spear into a man's side and watching to see if he twitched is a pretty good indicator. That doesn't take much modern medical knowledge. Even the authorities double checked when Joseph requested the body, because they were surpised that Jesus had died so soon.\n\nBut nobody-- NOBODY-- at that time, suggested that Jesus could possibly have been taken down from the cross still alive. Why? Because they did check, and they were quite certain that Jesus was, in fact, dead! Even when the priests were looking for some excuse for the empty tomb, they tried to say that the dead body had been stolen, but they never suggested that Jesus might not have been killed. Why not? Because they knew better! Half the city must have been there to watch the crucifixion. Nobody would believe it.\n\nBut let's suppose for a moment that Jesus was taken down from the cross alive. Was he given medical treatment? no. Was he given a saline infusion to conbat the effects of dehydration? no. What was he given? He was wrapped in grave cloths-- they made a mummy out of him! \n\nWhat, did people think that Jesus' arteries just slammed shut by themselves...? Or that He wasn't suffering from shock and dehydration? It's absurd to think that a man mortally wounded could have lived from Friday afternoon until sunrise on Sunday without any care at all. That's at least 36 hours of further, uninterrupted bleeding. The shock alone could kill a man.\n\nFinally, the jewish authorities had the strongest motivation to see to it that Jesus stayed dead. If the people went to the wrong tomb, they would have seen to it that everybody learned that a mistake had been made. If there was any doubt that Jesus was really dead, they would have had the body dug up and dragged around town on a donkey-cart so that everybody could SEE that Jesus was dead. Why didn't they do that? Because they didn't HAVE the body. \n\nNo matter how self-deluded people can become, do you think that all eleven apostles bore beatings and torture without giving in without ever questioning that Jesus was alive? Why not? Because they knew he WAS alive. \n\nWhat's so imporant about being alive? It happens to everybody. Well, it wouldn't have had any significance if Jesus hadn't been dead first! A man who crawled out of a tomb bleeding and nearly dead could never have convinced his folowers that he was resurrected. Maybe that God had spared him from death, but Jesus was too honest to take advantage of such a mistaken impression. His whole life and character goes against such basic dishonesty.\n\nThe only conclusion that seems honest to me is that Jesus really did die and rise from the dead-- just as he said he was going to-!- and that means that all the other things he said were true as well. He was and is the Messiah, the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the One Who will return to judge the living and the dead.
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its just an urban myth. some people say that someone in the crew hung themselves from a tree during one of the scenes in the dwarf village, but its really just a bird taking flight. sorry if i ruined it for you.
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My love, Kurt did not kill himself. He had just gotten out of rehab and his life was taking a turn for the better. Courtney, however, sucks. She didn't pull the trigger, but i'm willing to bet that she had a hand in his MURDER. Yes. murder. But that is dependant on the question of whether or not he is actually dead. There is rumor that he and JFK are under the Penatgon as we speak. Despite the slim odds for this theory, it is what i wish to believe. If you insist that my beloved Kurt is dead, then i shall tell you this. Kurt loved his music and his daughter and anyone in that position would not commit suicide. However, if i was married to Courtney Love i might have to shoot myself as well... not that he did, because he didn't.
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I didn't see the body but I would bet he was dead. I don't think this is all part of some elaborate hoax to fool the world. He was an addict with a bad heart and unfortunately, he simply died.
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At first he claimed not to remember killing her, and then he admitted to it. I don't think anyone knows what really happened. There has been speculation that the couple made a pact to die together, and Sid's overdose was intentional. Nancy's mother wrote a book in which she suggested that Nancy had asked Sid to kill her. Some people think that Nancy may have been stabbed by one of the drug dealers that was in their room that day.
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No. The british authorities concocted this story because they were impatient to hear from the coroner. She had no food or drugs in her system.She actually suffered a massive heart attack due to her bad eating habits and crash diets.
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One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
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Lenin died a natural death in 1924. \nThere was a number of attempts at his life, most famous being by a woman named Fanny Kaplan, who pumped two bullets into him in 1918. There is speculation that bullets were poisoned.
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I adore Marilyn Monroe ♥\nShe was so glamourous and knew how to get what she wanted.  I know by today's standards she's considered fat but I think she looked beautiful with those curves.  That is what a woman is supposed to look like.  The skinny girls today look like prepubescent boys.  Bleh.\nAs for her death I have my suspicions.  She was threatening to go public with her involvement with the Kennedy brothers and the fact that she suddenly, and convieniently, died leaves me wondering.  Not to mention the police at the scene said it was the most obviously staged suicide they'd ever seen.
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His death has always been a mystery.\n\n"On the 3rd of October, he was found on the streets, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance," according to the man who found him. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died early on the morning of October 7. Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and wearing clothes that were not his own. \nThe precise cause of Poe's death is disputed: \nDr. J. E. Snodgrass, an acquaintance of Poe's who was among those who saw him in his last days, was convinced that Poe's death was a result of drunkenness, and did a great deal to popularise this interpretation of the events. He was, however, a supporter of the temperance movement who found Poe a useful example in his work; and later scholars have shown that his account of Poe's death distorts facts to support his theory. \nDr. John Moran, the physician who attended Poe, stated in his own 1885 account that "Edgar Allan Poe did not die under the effect of any intoxicant, nor was the smell of liquor upon his breath or person." This was, however, only one of several sometimes contradictory accounts of Poe's last days he published over the years, so his testimony can not be considered entirely reliable. \nNumerous other theories have been proposed over the years, including several forms of brain disease, various types of enzyme deficiency, rabies [1] (though some consider this unlikely), syphilis, and the idea that Poe was shanghaied, drugged, and used as a pawn in a ballot-box-stuffing scam aimed at an election that was held on the day he was found. Some conspiracy theorists, notably Michael A. Hoffman II, even propose that Poe was murdered by Freemasons. \nIn the absence of contemporary documentation (all surviving accounts are either incomplete or published years after the event; even Poe's death certificate, if one was ever made out, has been lost), it is likely that the truth of Poe's death will never be known."
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William Hung- American Idol
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He hung himself, but either the rope or that to which it was attached broke, causing him to fall and burst open.\n\nEither way, he died. No contradiction there.