This story is being shilled pretty hard by the antis.
Former Seinfeld actor Daniel von Bargen was left fighting for life after shooting himself in the head in an apparent suicide attempt…The 61-year-old American actor told the dispatcher: ‘I’ve shot myself in the head but it didn’t work… I need help.’
When asked where he shot himself, he replied: ‘I shot… in my temple.’
When asked if the shooting was an accident, the actor replied: ‘I was supposed to go to the hospital and I didn’t want to. They were supposed to amputate at least a few toes.’
Authorities confirmed that they were dispatched to his apartment complex in Cincinnati, Ohio shortly afterwards.
In a recording of the 911 call, the emergency services can be heard arriving and shouting at Von Bargen to keep his hands visible and asking him if there are any other guns in the apartment.
On the tape, obtained by website TMZ, Von Bargen tells the dispatcher: ‘My gun is lying next to me on the bed. It is a .38 colt. I can’t open my eyes.’
Von Bargen, who is a diabetic, told the operator that he has already had one leg amputated and was ‘tired,’ referring to the procedure scheduled for his other leg.
Wow, first let’s just take a moment and make good note at the suffering that this great actor is going through right now. While I have a lot of issues with suicide, I also have some sympathy about this. I’ve seen Mr. Von Bargen’s work, and he’s awesome, and I was wondering why I hadn’t seen him recently as he was once so prolific. I suspect he’s been too ill to act, and you have to sympathize at what a horrible place he’s in, and now with what complications to a failed suicide.
And now let’s look at the blood dancers. They don’t care about the actor (except that its somebody we have a professional relationship with, as most of us have seen SOMETHING with him in it), and they don’t care that the man had recently lost a leg to diabetes, and is likely on the path to losing his other leg to the disease. They don’t care that he may be facing some very severe complications from the gun shot. (Generally a failed temple-shot can result in permanent blindness from damage to the eyes and optic nerves. Also there could be a wound track through the temporal and frontal lobe)
Now let’s go one step further, what if he didn’t have that Colt .38? What if he had taken a bunch of pills, or shoved a knife into himself, or jumped off a bridge.
There will be no candles for Spalding Gray, no matter how brilliant his career is because he jumped off a ferry and drowned.
How sick these people are. Its all blood dancing with them!
O2 tent, helium cylinder, open windows, and a note to call 911 on the front door.
If you are going to end your life, do it right.
Failed firearm suicides are always nasty.
Personally I’d go the route of opiate overdose. A euphoric train ride to oblivion!
OOOO OOOO I’ve been sending this one to all the gun blogs I read, Ladd over at CSGV posted about an interview with Keene and it got into suicide statistics… except… the stats don’t back up the fairytale…
Here’s the link:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201202230005
And here’s the statistic I was talking about… Read the last sentence:
First, “many suicidal acts — one third to four fifths of all suicide attempts, according to studies — are impulsive,” with the vast majority of survivors waiting less than 1 hour between the decision to commit suicide and the attempt. Second, many suicide crises are temporary, which is why “more than 90% of people who survive a suicide attempt… do not go on to die by suicide.” Third, guns are extremely lethal; “A suicide attempt with a firearm rarely affords a second chance. Attempts involving drugs or cutting, which account for more than 90% of all suicidal acts, prove fatal far less often.”
Soooo, firearms are used in less then 10% of suicidal acts according to their own statement??? But yet they’re what they want to take away most?
Anyway, great blog!
John Metcalfe
boatsandbullets.blogspot.com
How the fuck do they know how long somebody thought about it before they killed themselves?
Does the Joyce Foundation employ psychics?
*shrugs* Hadn’t thought about that part, but you have a good point there too.