RealAmericanHero: I used to come here for fun and thought laughing at tragedy was a natural way to live...Now I'm just sort of wondering how the fark this world keeps going when the most civilized of us can only cope with tragedy with laughter.

What few details are in the article suggest a short and very unhappy life. Not even so easy to laugh. Not without changing the subject a bit.

Obligatory:

That's just sad on so many levels.

The lowest of which is dying watching "Twilight."

LtDarkstar: SUBBY = STUPID

That is NOT the latest Twilight movie, thanks for the old news dumbass.

/And here people make fun of Twilight fans for being stupid
//Subby proved Twilight fans to be smarter than he/she is

Twilight isn't the news here, Dumbass, a man died.

Wait, did you actually think knowing when each Twilight movie came out was gonna somehow make you look smart here?

OMG, you did. That's just adorable.

FloydA: When Heston dies, he will see an empty chair....forever.

Guess all old people look the same to you?

Deedeemarz: That story seems off. Not even the Twilight part (as sad as that is), but a known alcoholic dying with a BAC of 0.57? And a Kiwi, aged 23? That just doesn't seem like a high enough level to kill a person who is a chronic drinker. We see levels that high frequently in alcoholics; unless it is a binge drinker they usually don't even suffer many effects-they just sleep it off and head back out for more. Strange story.

Which might suggest that the alcohol was not entirely responsible for ending his life. The most reasonable conclusion is then that it was the movie which ultimately killed him.

It was a mercy killing.

Team Dead Hobo!

toddalmighty: I'm a theatre manager. We find a huge amount of liquor bottles in the Twilight showings.

and vibrators?

Glad to see them breaking the story 2 and a half years later

The One True TheDavid: quatchi:

I'm kind of a perpetual smartass, which I recognize as a coping mechanism for dealing with life's insanity.

I'm an insane asshole. Cope with that.

I'll cope the HELL out of your insane asshole.

Znuh: [new.assets.thequietus.com image 550x309]

Charlton Heston predicted we'd have Euthanasia Chambers.

But THIS is the best we've done so far?

Maybe I should start drinking Johnny Walker Red then if it'll kill me quicker. But I'd rather watch something interesting during it, like paint growing or grass drying.

belhade: was being woken up the next morning to go to work. By my hot car-pooling co-worker.

LtDarkstar: What's more adorable is the stupid twat mods on here that think this 2 year old crap is actually news and the lemmings like yourself that actually sit around licking their boots.

It's not news, it's Fark.

You must be a Packer fan as well? Ya, it's that easy to tell.

Lions.

/BC Lions, that is.

Anastacya: Laughing in itself could be considered a form of hardening your heart.

True enuff.

Lord knows it's how I survived until I was able to get away from my abusive husband. There is a certain satisfaction knowing that you are going to get the shiat beat out of you regardless of what you say, so you just take the lowest shot possible. Laughing in the face of imminent harm is not my claim to intelligence, either.

/face still hurts, two years later

Points well and painfully made.

Sad story, Sis.

Hope you are in a better place now.

I'm kind of a perpetual smartass, which I recognize as a coping mechanism for dealing with life's insanity. My smart mouth gets my dumb ass in more trouble than I could tell you about most days. It also gets me out of trouble. I like to joke sometimes that I spend half my time digging my own grave with my mouth and the other half backfilling the hole.

End of the day I still think it's better to be a smartass with a sense of humour than a dumbass without one. ^_^

Be Well.

/Humour does so have two Us.

quatchi: RealAmericanHero: I used to come here for fun and thought laughing at tragedy was a natural way to live...

If you don't learn how to laugh at life's horrors the only other remaining options are crying your eyes out or hardening your heart to inhuman levels.

None are truly good options, of course, but laughing is clearly the best.

Laughing in itself could be considered a form of hardening your heart. Lord knows it's how I survived until I was able to get away from my abusive husband. There is a certain satisfaction knowing that you are going to get the shiat beat out of you regardless of what you say, so you just take the lowest shot possible. Laughing in the face of imminent harm is not my claim to intelligence, either.

/face still hurts, two years later

quatchi: Wait, did you actually think knowing when each Twilight movie came out was gonna somehow make you look smart here?

OMG, you did. That's just adorable

Seriously, this. I don't want t live in a world where that is a qualification to be considered an intellectual.

Too much blood in his alcohol stream.

Znuh: [new.assets.thequietus.com image 550x309]

Charlton Heston predicted we'd have Euthanasia Chambers.

Futurama predicted... 
 

The Charlton Heston chamber is kind of nice though. I wonder if that sunset was what he saw right before they pried the gun from his cold, dead hands.

Charlton Heston predicted we'd have Euthanasia Chambers.

At 23 I tried drinking myself to death, too. Dunno how he managed it on a litre.

I have put down a liter of Jack in an evening before. I'm not saying it was a good evening, but I didn't die.