Some of them are lucky enough to survive suicide and drug overdose: singer Courtney Love (oxycontin), character actor Gary Busey (cocaine), young actress Lindsay Lohan (cocaine and pain killers), and just recently, comedian Owen Wilson (sleeping pills) and rock babe Amy Winehouse (mixture of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and booze).
But others succumbed to their desperation and no one was able to snatch them from the claws of death. Remember the legendary King of Rock & Roll Elvis Presley, screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, musician Jimi Hendrix (barbiturates) and very recently, bombshell Anna Nicole Smith (chloral hydrate, benzodiazepines).
What has driven these celebrities to take their own lives by way of suicide and drug overdose? Aren’t fame and fortune more than enough to make a person happy and contented?
People end their lives or attempt suicide to escape feelings of rejection, hurt, or loss. Or it could be anger, shame and guilt that forced them to believe that life is not getting any better for them. Still others might feel being worthless and a burden that dying seemed to be the only way out.
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