O/T RIP DAVID CARRADINE - Page 4

Well, I think it is very sad that instead of being remember as a great actor, he will be remembered for how he was found dead.

Maybe that's how you will remember him, Maggie, but you're "projecting" your thoughts on to everyone else.   I will forget in a nonosecond how he died - but I will always remember him, not as an actor, but actually as a personality  - Kwai Chang Caine, walking barefoot with a drawstring sack on his back.

You can bet that everytime you pick up a magazine / read the news / watch TV and he is mentioned -- it will ALWAYS state the circumstances of how he died.  

I don't read gossip magazines, I don't watch mainstream news on TV.  I'll probably be pretty safe, LOL!

well i am going on that age and i need nothing to hold anything up.and that includes dinky
Steve

" regardless of how he died i will always see him as a good guy who lived a good life and now the world is a sadder place without him in it."  A quote from justrcurious ! Comment  Strange that you see someone found dead in a hotel room,naked in a closet 70 some years old with a cord around his neck and penis dead from suffocation and no one around to explain what happened to him as a "good guy"! LOL LOL LOL  Makes me wonder what else he did in his good life that was never discovered or  told about. Strange that they did not find his wife with him since she would be the most logical companion to be with him!I am curious if he was hanging from the closet rod in the lotus position attempting to play the skinflute! LOL LOL LOL  Perhaps if ted bundy were never found out you would consider him a good guy since he clowned around alot and worked with children? LOL lOL

i can appreciate him for the way he lived his life as a free man who harmed no one and his acting was enjoyed by more people than we can count.  also i am very comfortable not judging someone for their private choices.  i don't believe in perfectionism and see no reason to make huge leaps in so-called-logic in order to judge that person on things they never did.  the fact is there is no logical bridge between self pleasure and murder and therefore the "connection" is a creation of your mind (maybe you watch too much tv) and your own thought processes, which are irrelevant to david's life and death. 

i view him as, what sociologist call, a positive deviant not a negative deviant as bundy & damur (sp?) clearly were - for david life changed people for the better and he did it in his own unique way. and i view your post as making light of someone's death and as a sad attempt to humiliate another to make yourself feel superior, which you don't have to do, feeling good about another's life can in fact make us feel good about our own lives.  you can try and diminish his life but you can't because he had made his mark long before he died and it can't be undone no matter how hard one tries.

the truth is he was a good & well loved man whose life was cut short, which is sad and he will be missed by many. perhaps you are not one of the many that feels the loss and that's okay but if you can take away anything from his life i would hope it would be: love your own life, enjoy your work, enjoy yourself, be good to others and live a life worth living mistakes and all.

be well,
susan