lawrocket 3 #1 September 30, 2003 I came upon this. It makes me wonder whether there is anything sacred. Promoting a concert and stating a real suicide will occur during it. Commercializing the loss of a life. I'm not against euthanasia. I AM against using it in this way. Something about this story just makes me sick. That and the "we'll pass a law against it." Yeah, that'll work. ------------------------------- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20030930/od_nm/life_suicide_dc ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) - City officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, passed a law on Monday banning public suicides in an attempt to prevent a rock band from carrying out a planned suicide at a concert. The band Hell on Earth said on its Web site, www.hellonearth.net, that a terminally ill member of the Euthanasia Society would commit suicide at the concert at an undisclosed location in St. Petersburg. The band said it planned to show the event on its Web site. "This is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide," band leader Billy Tourtelot said in a statement posted on the Web site. "This performance will go in its entirety and it will be in St. Petersburg on Oct. 4," Tourtelot said. The St. Petersburg City Council held an emergency meeting on Monday and passed an ordinance to ban public suicides. City officials are also seeking a court injunction to stop the performance. The St. Petersburg-based band is known for its outrageous acts. At one concert, dead rats were put into a blender and some audience members drank the concoction. The concert featuring the suicide had been scheduled to take place at the State Theater in St. Petersburg but the manager canceled it after he learned about the planned suicide. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #2 September 30, 2003 Quote "This is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide," band leader Billy Tourtelot said in a statement posted on the Web site Billy Tourtelot is full of shit. He is simply trying to capitalize on someone elses personal tragedy. I wish everyone would boycott their show and show him that he is crossing the line. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #3 September 30, 2003 QuoteThe St. Petersburg-based band is known for its outrageous acts. At one concert, dead rats were put into a blender and some audience members drank the concoction. Dunno, I've woken up at the DZ some mornings sure that I've drunk the same (or worse!). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sangiro 26 #4 September 30, 2003 QuoteThe St. Petersburg-based band is known for its outrageous acts. At one concert, dead rats were put into a blender and some audience members drank the concoction. Tastes like chicken. Safe swoops Sangiro Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #5 September 30, 2003 QuoteTastes like chicken. Guess who's been to India recently... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpergirl 0 #6 September 30, 2003 QuoteBilly Tourtelot is full of shit. He is simply trying to capitalize on someone elses personal tragedy. I completely and totally agree with you on this. There is a radio show host down here (I live less than an hour from St. Pete) that says the reason they are promoting it is to bring awareness to the socitety. Whatever. I think it's disgusting. I think just mentioning it is awful. I think the band is terrible for talking about it in the way they are discussing it. I do agree that awareness about it is a good thing. If they want to bring it out and make more people aware of it, great, I'm all for it, but DAMN this is wrong!! Just my little opinion. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #7 September 30, 2003 A friend of mine in college had a sick mother. She apparently had multiple sclerosis. Christie was often taking care of her mom, and there was an incredible amount of stress on her. We both graduated. Within a year, I hear about Dr. Jack Kevorkian performing another assisted suicide on a woman from Goleta suffering from MS. Turns out, the coroner found nothing wrong with her physically. Simply a conversion disorder. Yep, it was Christie's mom. I read her story in People Magazine in the fall of 1997. She was wracked with guilt about it. Since then, this euthanasia thing has gotten to me. Although I agree with the concept, it was the publicity around this that was so destructive. This band is using it not for the purpose of awareness, but for the purpose of marketing. It's a damned shame, and I hope that the person they've supposedly got for it backs out and realizes that he/she is only being used. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpergirl 0 #8 September 30, 2003 I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's mother. How horrible! I agree that it is most definitely being used as marketing. I don't doubt that for a second. And, the "word" around here and the word of that radio host is that it is "for awareness." Awareness is a good thing, but not like this... and not in this way. I too hope the guy who is suppose to be doing this will back out and make the band look like the fools they are! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpergirl 0 #9 September 30, 2003 Ok, there is a little article and a "letter" from the suicidal man on this website... http://www.btls.com/bubba_.html. Scroll down and it towards the bottom, on the right. Right under that story about Macho-Man Randy Savage. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuckakers 426 #10 September 30, 2003 QuoteI'm not against euthanasia. I AM against using it in this way. Don't you think the person committing the suicide has the right to allow it to be used any way he or she likes? It is, after all, that persons life. Your opinion is irrelevant. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
