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Bond actress Angela Scoular died drinking acid cleaner
BBC ^ | 20.07.11

Posted on 07/21/2011 6:49:32 AM PDT by Perdogg

A Bond girl actress who had suffered from bowel cancer ended her life by drinking a corrosive cleaning liquid, Westminster Coroner's Court has heard.

Angela Scoular, 65, who starred in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, died in April.

The actress, who lived in Maida Vale, west London, was battling alcoholism and depression and worried about debts

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1 posted on 07/21/2011 6:49:35 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: GSP.FAN; Guenevere; SJSAMPLE; Larry Lucido; fieldmarshaldj; Clemenza; Impy; archivist007; ...

ping


2 posted on 07/21/2011 6:50:17 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Perdogg

Of all the ways to suicide that has to be among the most gruesome.


3 posted on 07/21/2011 6:51:44 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Perdogg

She couldn’t have found an easier way to go?


4 posted on 07/21/2011 6:52:15 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Perdogg

How sad.


5 posted on 07/21/2011 6:52:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Public schools = TSA: incompetent, abusive, anti-American. Why are we putting up with either one?)
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6 posted on 07/21/2011 6:54:10 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: DBrow

I think she may not have fully understood what she was doing, given the condition of her health and her mental state. Between her alcoholism and her poor health she must have been a very sad case.


7 posted on 07/21/2011 7:00:09 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Member Emeritus of Vitriolics Anonymous.)
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To: Perdogg

Sadly, I’d have hit it (if she had just hung on a little longer).


8 posted on 07/21/2011 7:00:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If you pet a tiny goose, you will feel a little down.)
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9 posted on 07/21/2011 7:01:21 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Perdogg

Argh. I’m suddenly having flashbacks from that scene in Magnum Force.

What a horrible way to go...


10 posted on 07/21/2011 7:01:32 AM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!)
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To: Perdogg

Another British Social Medicine success story.


11 posted on 07/21/2011 7:03:23 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
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To: Perdogg

Maybe Casey Anthony should go into the euthenasia business.


12 posted on 07/21/2011 7:06:35 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Perdogg

bleah. That’s an ugly, painful way to go.


13 posted on 07/21/2011 7:13:24 AM PDT by wbill
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Not too bright —damn

I could think of a dozen better ways to go than that. Including robbing a DC drug dealer with a pocket knife.


14 posted on 07/21/2011 7:27:51 AM PDT by Venturer
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I once looked up the actress Capucine (since AMC was running North to Alaska constantly).

She defenestrated herself.

15 posted on 07/21/2011 7:44:35 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

had to look it up...she thow’d herself out a window ?


16 posted on 07/21/2011 7:49:06 AM PDT by advertising guy (it is now decided.......game 6 and game 7 of the 2011 World Series is back in Phoenix)
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To: Perdogg
Rest In Peace, Angela...


17 posted on 07/21/2011 8:17:42 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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bond girl ping.


18 posted on 07/21/2011 8:19:22 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: DBrow

According to the article the Coroner stated that she killed herself, but ruled that her death was not a suicide. Typo or some twist of English law?


19 posted on 07/21/2011 8:23:46 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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Maybe the balcony. Can’t remember. IMDB isn’t all that clear on some of the details.


20 posted on 07/21/2011 8:52:46 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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