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- #94304
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# THREE TIMES A LETHAL DOSE OF HEROIN?
Kurt apparently had 3 times the lethal 225 mgs dose of heroin (1.52 mgs per liter) in his blood system and intravenous puncture marks in both arms. Medical experts will tell you that such an amount, when injected directly into the bloodstream will leave you incapacitated and cause you to lapse into a coma within seconds, if not kill you instantly before the needle can even be removed from your arm. It's common for deaths of heroin overdoses to be found with the needle still sticking out of the arm. That's how quickly one lethal dose can kill a person, let alone three.
Leland CobainIt's hard to believe that Cobain injected himself with an insane triple lethal dose of heroin, pulled the needle out of his arm, carefully put away that needle and the heroin paraphernalia neatly back into a cigar box a few feet away, rolled down and button his sleeves, then picked up a Remington 20-gauge shotgun Photo, placed it in his mouth and discharged it. There does not seem to be another case in history in which anything close to this has ever occurred and many researchers feel it is simply impossible.
The drug Diazepam (Valium), was also found in Cobain's blood system. A drug that is known to aggravate heroin, and makes an overdose that much worse. The question remains as to why Cobain would shoot himself after taking a triple lethal dose, which clearly would have been more than enough to cause death instantly. A triple overdose, followed by shooting yourself not only doesn't make sense, but is impossible according to the medical experts.
Canadian Chemist Roger Lewis read the Cobain autopsy report. Knowing that drug related "suicides" are often a staged cover up for a murder, he studied 98 similar deaths and their pathology, criminology and forensic tests. His research is titled "Dead Men Don't Pull Triggers", and it was published in Opinion Magazine. An online version is also available and is a must-read for anyone who wants to intelligently argue that Cobain was murdered. To be fair, there is a rebuttal to Lewis' findings, which has also been posted on the web, as well as Lewis' rebuttal to the first one. Links to that debate are available in the internet coverage section of this site.
# NO FINGERPRINTS?
According to the police report, there were no "legible" fingerprints on the shotgun (which some sources say indicate the gun had been wiped or cleaned), none on the pen found with the "suicide" note, or the box of shotgun shells found beside Kurt. How can you write a note, load up a shotgun with 3 shells, and shoot yourself without leaving any fingerprints on anything? Also, his head was nowhere near "blown off", as mistakenly reported by the press. It was fully intact and not as gruesome as people close to the situation had made it out to be to the media and friends. The Remington Model 11 shotgun Photo is a very light shotgun that dealers recommend for home protection, because the shot won't penetrate walls and endanger those on the other side.
Sgt. Cameron admitted 2 years later that there were no markings on Kurt's hands indicating he had fired the weapon. "Yeah, there weren't any marks on his hands...Some rookie must've put that line in the police report." he said when speaking about the mistake in the police report. Tom Grant says: "I can say with confidence that there were no marks on Cobain's hands that would indicate he fired this weapon. I've had the police reports analyzed by other homicide detectives and criminalists. No one can figure out what these "marks" could have been. I can't explain further at this time, but I can tell you the authorities will never claim the marks were GS residue or soot. Some of the additional evidence I've obtained regarding these so-called "marks" cannot be disclosed until the case is reopened. If the Seattle authorities ever care to describe the "marks" in detail, I'll come forward with additional evidence that will prove those so--called "marks" did not really exist."
Since things were also so neatly put away at the scene and there were no fingerprints on key objects, this seems to indicate someone "swept" it before Cobain's body was discovered. He clearly was not alone in that greenhouse.
# BUSINESS IN LOS ANGELES?
Courtney Love was in Los Angeles during the week preceding and up to Kurt's death and when asked by many to fly up to Seattle to help locate her husband, whom she had told others "had a shotgun" and was "suicidal," she replied, "I can't. I have business to take care of." When Tom Grant mentioned to Rosemary Carroll that Courtney had said she couldn't go to Seattle herself because she "had business in L.A", Carroll replied "She didn't have any business in L.A.!" While Kurt was in Seattle in supposed "suicide" mode, Love was arrested due to a 911 phone call reporting an overdose in her hotel room. Paramedics arrived and took her to the hospital before releasing her 2 hours later into police custody. She was charged with possession of a syringe and drug paraphernalia. Phone records show that the 911 call that got her arrested, originated from her own hotel room. Tom Grant believes this was Courtney's attempt to establish an alibi right before Kurt was found.
# A SECRET SECOND NOTE?
Courtney produced a never-before seen second note to Seattle police, which she claims Kurt wrote in Rome during "his first suicide attempt". A police officer says it was not a suicide not, but rather a rambling and unflattering diatribe against her. Courtney admits the existance of this note in a December 1994 Rolling Stone interview, and to Tom Grant. Grant has her on tape saying that she burned it . Courtney says the second note also mentioned a divorce.
# THE ROME INCIDENT
Kurt was not a user of Rohypnol , he also didn't drink alcohol. On March 4th 1994 in Rome, when he was on the verge of leaving Courtney and the tour he was on, he was suddenly hospitalized with these substances in his body. Many believe this was the first, failed, murder attempt as both Michael DeWitt and Courtney Love were also in that hotel room in Rome. By some miracle, Kurt survived the combination of Rohypnol and Alcohol, and told everyone, including the doctors that it was not a suicide attempt. Dr. Galletta, who treated him, agreed it was just an accident. Kurt also mentioned that he could not remember what had happened to cause the coma. This is a common side effect of Rohypnol , better known as the "date rape drug" or "roofies". At the time, Rohypnol was a colorless, odorless drug which dissolves quickly into drinks, including water, and induces amnesia (loss of memory) when abused. The prescription for this drug belonged to Courtney. She was seen popping some during an interview with Select magazine in Rome on March 3rd and it's documented in the interview. Also, Tom Grant found empty packets of the prescription with her name on it when he searched the Cobain home on April 7th.
# MONEY FOR MURDER?
Eldon Hoke (aka "El Duce"), singer of a band called the Mentors, claimed he was offered $50,000 by Courtney Love three months earlier to kill her husband. On March 6, 1996, Hoke was administered a polygraph test by Dr. Edward Gelb, who is one of the country's leading polygraph experts. He was also teaching the advanced polygraph course for the FBI. Hoke passed a lie detector test with 99.7% certainty that he was telling the truth. Eldon Hoke briefly appeared in the Nick Broomfield "Kurt & Courtney" documentary.
Eldon Hoke On April 19th 1997, eight days after having his story filmed by Broomfield, Hoke was found dead in Riverside, California by the California Highway Police. A source described the events as "highly suspicious. He showed up at his house in Riverside with this guy who he introduced as his new friend none of his roommates had ever met before an
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- #94302
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- Riddles
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- #94300
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- Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
1- Has anyone taken any legal actions against Curtney Love because of the supposed suicide/killing? Has anyone been able to prove that it was or wasn't a suicide? And most important, has anyone been able to replicate the suicide (with no bullets or with computers of course) based on where the body was and based on the bullet hole(s)?
Can't take legal action if you can't prove it. So far, they cannot prove it. Sure there are questionable circumstances surrounding it but not enough to waste legal and police resources on by reopening the case.
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- #94299
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- Riddles
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- #94291
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- Riddles
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94291/action/topic#94291
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A professor tells her assistant that she dined with three people last night. She also tells him that the sum of the three people's ages is twice the secretary's own age and that the product of the three people's ages is 2,450. Then, she asks him to tell her the ages of the three people. After a while, the assistant tells the professor that he doesn't have enough information to solve the problem. She agrees and adds that she is older than all three people with whom she dined. The assistant, who knows her age, promptly gives the professor the correct ages. The question is: What are the ages of all five people in this story?
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- #94290
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- The Essentials (films)
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Ringu (The Japanese version blows the US version out of the water.)
Well, it had better because the American version was the most unscary scary movie I've seen in recent years.
Dumbest... movie... ever.
And it definitely does not deserve a sequel.
Great scary films...
The Exorcist - still the best
Jaws - 'nuff said
Stigmata - surprisingly good
The Sixth Sense - but you cannot really watch it multiple times which kinda sucks
Spice World - just plain scary
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
I belive kurt kobain was murderd.
As do I. But, for now, it's still officially listed as suicide.
Chaltab, the reason why people believe it was a murder is because he used a long barrel hunting shotgun to off himself. If you've ever held one of those, it is literally impossible to stick the end of the barrel in your mouth (which he did) and then be able to reach and pull the trigger. He would have had to do it with his toes which is a pretty improbable situation. People believe it was either Courtney Love who did it or who arranged the murder so she would have complete control over his estate, legacy, etc. And she would also have a strong controlling interest in the legacy of the band, Nirvana. Since his death, she has been capitalizing on his name because, God knows, she has no real career without the notoriety of having been his wife. Her band bombed, nobody wants to work with her, she's been back on the drug wagon God only knows how many times, her movie career bottomed out, etc. Bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl have some control as well but every little thing that either side wants to do winds up being a huge court battle. It's a pretty ugly situation.
Here's the latest on Thompson from IMDb...
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Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be fired across his Colorado estate by a cannon, in keeping with his final wishes. The journalist and author committed suicide at his secure compound in Woody Creek on Sunday. He was 67. The Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas author wanted a simple, but bizarre funeral, during which his body is cremated and his ashes blasted across the ranch, according to his lawyer George Tobia Jr. Thompson's friend, journalist Troy Hooper explains, "I believe he wanted to be shot out of a cannon. I understand it's in his will. That's Hunter's style. That's how he would want it. He was a big fan of bonfires and explosions and anything that went bang and I'm sure he'd like to go bang as well."
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- #94199
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- The Return of Six Degrees of Star Wars
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94199/action/topic#94199
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Noah Wyle
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- #94193
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- Rankings
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94193/action/topic#94193
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Main Entry: 2warble
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): war·bled; war·bling /-b(&-)li[ng]/
intransitive senses
1 : to sing in a trilling manner or with many turns and variations
2 : to become sounded with trills, quavers, and rapid modulations in pitch
3 : SING
transitive senses : to render with turns, runs, or rapid modulations : TRILL
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): war·bled; war·bling /-b(&-)li[ng]/
intransitive senses
1 : to sing in a trilling manner or with many turns and variations
2 : to become sounded with trills, quavers, and rapid modulations in pitch
3 : SING
transitive senses : to render with turns, runs, or rapid modulations : TRILL
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Authors and others related to writing who have committed suicide
Louis Althusser, (1990), French philosopher
Jean Améry, (1978), Austrian writer
Hubert Aquin, (1977), author
Gertrude Bell, (1926), archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
Blossius of Cumae, Roman philosopher who led a failed revolt
Barcroft Boake, (1892), Australian poet, hanged himself from a tree
Karin Boye, (1941), Swedish author
Richard Brautigan, (1984), American writer
Michael Buonauro, (2004), Web Cartoonist, Web author, "Marvelous Bob"
Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro, (1991), journalist
Paul Celan, (1970), Romanian poet
Iris Chang, (2004), Chinese-American author
Thomas Chatterton, (1770), English poet
Charmian Clift, (1969), Australian writer
Kurt Cobain, (1994), American musician and singer (Nirvana)
Hart Crane, (1932), American poet; born on the same date as Ernest Hemingway, another American writer who suicided
Harry Crosby, (1929), writer, publisher
Will Cuppy, (1949), American writer, humorist
Dazai Osamu, (1948), Japanese novelist
Guy Debord, (1994), French philosopher, member of Situationist International
Gilles Deleuze, (1995), French philosopher
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1945), French novelist
K. Sello Duiker, (2005), South African author
John Gould Fletcher, (1950), Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Romain Gary, (1980), Russian-French novelist, film director and diplomat
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1935), American feminist and author (Herland)
Adam Lindsay Gordon, (1870), Australian poet ('Life is mostly froth and bubble')
Kenneth Halliwell, (1967), English writer, lover of Joe Orton whom he killed then killed himself
James Harden-Hickey, (1898), US eccentric who wrote a book listing 88 poisons and 51 instruments that could be used for suicide; he chose an overdose of morphine
Ernest Hemingway, (1961), American novelist
James Leo Herlihy, (1993), US novelist ('Midnight Cowboy')
William Inge, (1973), US playwright (Picnic, Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, Splendor in the Grass)
Isocrates, (338 BC), Greek rhetorician
Randall Jarrell (1965), US writer and poet
Sarah Kane, (1999), British playwright
Kostas Karyotakis, (1928), Greek poet, shot himself
Heinrich von Kleist, (1811), German dramatist and poet
Fletcher Knebel, (1993), US novelist ('Seven Days in May')
Arthur Koestler, (1983), Hungarian novelist, political activist and social philosopher; suicided with his wife
Jerzy Kosinski, (1991), Polish-American author
Katherine Lawrence, (2004), writer
Primo Levi, (1987), Italian author and Auschwitz survivor
Vachel Lindsay, (1931), US poet
Peter Llewellyn-Davies, (1960), UK publisher who as a boy was the inspiration for J M Barrie's Peter Pan
Ross Lockridge, Jr., (1948}, US novelist, author of Raintree County
Jack London, (1916), US novelist (his doctor believed he had committed suicide by overdose of morphine and atropine, but his widow prevailed on a more senior doctor to ascribe the death to uremia, and had the body quickly cremated before an autopsy could be done)
Malcolm Lowry, (1957), British writer
Lucan, (65), Roman poet
Robert Maxwell, (1991), Czech-born UK newspaper magnate who jumped overboard in the Atlantic leaving a financial disaster in his wake
Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1930), Russian poet; his suicide note said 'I don't recommend it for others'
Niklaus Meienberg, (1993), Swiss author
Charlotte Mew, (1928), English poet
Walter M. Miller, Jr., (1996), science-fiction writer
Yukio Mishima, (1970), Japanese novelist; committed public ritual seppuku
Henry de Montherlant, (1972), French writer
Gérard de Nerval, (1855), French writer
John Patrick, (1995), US playwright and screenwriter; placed a plastic bag over his head
Cesare Pavese, (1950), Italian poet, novelist
Petronius Arbiter, (66), Roman satirist; opened his own veins
H. Beam Piper, (1964), American science fiction writer
Sylvia Plath, (1963), American poetess, author and essayist
Jan Potocki, (1815), Polish aristocrat, traveler, writer; shot himself with a silver bullet
Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol (1870), French journalist and diplomat
Iris von Roten-Meyer, (1990), artist and jurist
Akutagawa Ryunosuke, (1927), Japanese novelist
William Seabrook (1886-1945), adventurer, travel writer
Anne Sexton, (1974), American poet
Sara Teasdale, (1933), American poet
Hunter S. Thompson, (2005), American novelist and journalist
Ric Throssell, (1999), Australian diplomat, writer
Ernst Toller, (1939), German writer
John Kennedy Toole, (1969), American novelist
Marina Tsvetaeva, (1941), Russian poetess and writer
Kurt Tucholsky, (1935), German journalist and satirist
Amy Vanderbilt, (1974), etiquette writer
Gary Webb, (2004), US investigative reporter; death ruled as suicide from two gunshots
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, (1939), Polish author, novelist, painter, philosopher
Virginia Woolf, (1941), British novelist
Sergei Yesenin, (1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan
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Hemingway killed himself on a log cabin in Ketcham, Idaho on Sunday 2 July 1961. He tripped the trigger of his double barelled shotgun and was instantly killed.
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- #94194
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- The CANTINA
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94194/action/topic#94194
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- Hockey Talk
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94192/action/topic#94192
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- Info: 1:4 Scale Darth Vader
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94191/action/topic#94191
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- The Return of Six Degrees of Star Wars
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94111/action/topic#94111
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George Reeves (Superman) Keith Richards... no, not that one (The Ten Commandments) Vincent Price (The Oblong Box) Christopher Lee
How about the real Keith Richards (listed as Keith Richards (II))?
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- Hockey Talk
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94106/action/topic#94106
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- Hockey Talk
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94091/action/topic#94091
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- Info: 1:4 Scale Darth Vader
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This is a beautiful thing…

He’s friggin’ 20 inches tall!!!

And he comes with the droid I wanted to make into an RC car. Damn Sideshow! They took my idea!!!

The whole enchilada is estimated at US $350 and will be out this fall. For more information…
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- Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide
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- #94085
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- The CANTINA
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94085/action/topic#94085
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- #94044
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- Video Games - a general discussion thread
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94044/action/topic#94044
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- #94080
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Bossk, that's absolutely NOT true. Most of the people who commited suicide told other people they would, so you should NOT ignore such cries for help. If anyone ever give you a hinch they might be suicidal, talk to that person. Ask them if they are considering suicide and if they have thought about the method to do it - don't worry you will NOT be giving him/her the idea to do it. If the person tells you that they are, in fact, suicidal, just LISTEN to the person and do NOT make any comments or suggestions, just listen. If the person claims they have a method chosen, and it's an easily available method, than the situation is a little bit more serious, and you should probably ask the person to see a doctor. NEVER promise that person to keep it a secret, as soon as possible tell anyone that might also help.
Of course, bizarre unexplainable suicides do happen, but they are actually VERY rare. You don't know Hunter S. Thompson personally, so you don' know if he expressed any signs of depression before.
By the way folks, if any of you has considered it, please talk to someone and see a doctor AT ONCE.
When did I ever say "don't help them"? I said that they are asking for help and just need someone to reach out and help them. Did you not read my post? If you don't help them, that may push them over the edge. But they do want help and they are asking for it by stating that they are suicidal or by acting the part.
The ones that truly intend to off themselves regardless of outside help, in my experience, have given no indications of this intention whatsoever. They will just do it and don't want help so they don't ask or don't act like they would do something like this.
I NEVER said ignore. I NEVER said don't take it seriously. I NEVER would be that naive. I know too many people who have killed themselves.
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- #94079
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- The CANTINA
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
*bump*
Bumped to try and reduce the number of off topic posts.
As noble an effort as that is, I somehow don't see it helping the issue.