David Carradine -- Suicidal Tendencies

David CarradineIt's become painfully clear that David Carradine had wrestled with suicidal thoughts long before this morning's tragedy.

In a 2004 interview dug up by the Telegraph Newspaper, the 72-year-old actor revealed that he once considered shooting himself, saying: "Look, there was a period in my life when I had a single action Colt 45, loaded, in my desk drawer.

And every night I'd take it out and think about blowing my head off, and then decide not to and go on with my life. Put it back in the drawer and open up the laptop and continue writing my autobiography or whatever. But it was just to see."


But there's more -- Carradine, who was also a musician, released a song on his website called Big Mack Truck, about a man who considers ending his life by walking into traffic. Here are some of the lyrics:

Does anyone know where I'm going ... does anyone here really care?

David Carradine: Click to listenIf I walk myself on a highway ... would that big mac truck be there?

Big mack truck .. big mack truck ... bearin' down on me.

Big mack truck on a highway .. oh say can you see ... can you see ... can you see?




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91. Death with dignity. I think we will find out from the autopsy that David had cancer or some disease that would have left him incapable of taking care for himself or causing great suffering. Medicine today thinks extending life is all there is to it, but at what price? Wearing diapers? Getting thrown into a warehouse by your family? Having 2000 tubes and machines keeping you alive? Some people follow their survival instinct and ride it out to the end, others end it on their terms. Regardless, if it was David's choice to end his life, I respect his strength to do so. Survival is the most powerful instinct above all. May you rest in peace.

Posted at 12:31AM on Jun 5th 2009 by Etreum

92. Come on... Why kill yourself at 72, you are almost there? That is ignorant. You will be there, see if you wanna go. My dad is 75 and runs marathons. Works out 4 hours a day and loves life. He will be an active man, as his father before him, at 90. But, I also know that if he knew if he was to become physically or mentally dependent on others, he will ended it. By his own hand at his own time.

Posted at 12:38AM on Jun 5th 2009 by Karloz

93. Accident Maybe....suicide NO! .....murder...47%
R.I.P David "Grasshopper" Carradine

Posted at 12:56AM on Jun 6th 2009 by Ghost Walker

94. Ummm he was found with a rope around his neck AND his PENIS!!! Suicide? Murder? How about auto-erotic asphixiation? Love how TMZ will take the first hint of a story with incomplete information and find some old quotes as "evidence" to sensationalize it. Complete tabloid trash...

Posted at 4:32AM on Jun 5th 2009 by TMZisBullshxt

95. so sad have been married for 30 years and sadly men are ruled by a few square inches of skin; the few inches on the tip of the tongue and the few inches on the flap of skin between their legs; i say this as a nurse and an observer of human nature. so sorry for men. i am not a man hater or ball buster.

Posted at 12:58AM on Jun 6th 2009 by annya

96. According to Time in the UK, Carradine was not only "hanging," which carries a connotation of suicide, but rather he was hanging from a rope additionally wrapped around his wrists and genitals, suggesting with higher likelihood than the suicide theory that Carradine had been participating in auto-erotic asphyxiation. What I read in this article strikes me more as propaganda than fact, perpetuating a suicide rumor by picking and choosing three suicidal references by a 72-year-old man. I'm personally shocked that of a man of 72 years, TMZ has only found three references to suicide.

Posted at 3:02PM on Jun 6th 2009 by SJA

97. He was trying to get off and basically killed himself... do you know how many people dies of esfixiation from trying to get off and then are covered up as suicide because families dont want people to know what really happened

Posted at 1:43PM on Jun 7th 2009 by arqwer

98. It's shady to say the least!

suicide - one of the top 3 stupidest things I heard today on NBC

The guy had everything to live for.

He had got himself clean and into fitness years ago and was going to shoot a film in tailand in two weeks.

I heard from my buddy who works at MTV. He knows one of his groupies. He was found with his hands tied swinging in the closet of his hotel with an apple in his mouth.

tai mafia - thier version of a mexican necktie

Common in tailand I guess. They are well known for killing porn actresses this way. They probably know who is responsible but are paid to say suicide or whatever. They don't care either. Those responsible will never come to justice. Just counting their cash.

What a waste of life just for the insurance money on the production.

His talent will be missed.

Kill Bill is a classic.

Posted at 4:56PM on Jun 7th 2009 by Looker

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