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Couple who hosted self-help radio show found dead in joint suicide at Brooklyn home
New York Post ^ | 3:28 PM, June 5, 2013 | Jamie Schram, Lia Eustachewich and Natalie O’Neill

Posted on 06/05/2013 4:50:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai

They were the ones who needed help.

A Brooklyn couple famous for hosting a self-help radio show committed suicide by suffocating themselves with plastic bags in Park Slope, police sources and witnesses said.

Psychotherapist Lynne Rosen, 46, and her motivational speaker husband John Littig, 48—who appeared on WBAI-FM’s “The Pursuit of Happiness”—were found dead in the living room of their President Street and Eighth Avenue apartment, sources said. …

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: johnlittig; lynnerosen; selfhelp; suicidepact
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1 posted on 06/05/2013 4:50:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

>>A Brooklyn couple famous for hosting a self-help radio show committed suicide by suffocating themselves with plastic bags in Park Slope, police sources and witnesses said.<<

The irony is so massive it might change the rotation of the Earth...


2 posted on 06/05/2013 4:52:37 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Olog-hai

Jeez, there are a million jokes there if it weren’t so tragic.


3 posted on 06/05/2013 4:54:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: Olog-hai

Which one of them motivated the other to do it?


4 posted on 06/05/2013 4:54:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Olog-hai

Good grief .


5 posted on 06/05/2013 4:56:13 PM PDT by katykelly
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Bullshit. No one suffocating this way can stop the impulse to rip-off the bags. People suffocating will rip one another to bloody chunks to get air.


6 posted on 06/05/2013 5:02:15 PM PDT by pabianice
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WBAI= hideous, left wing, America hating radio station.


7 posted on 06/05/2013 5:02:25 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: a fool in paradise
Which one of them motivated the other to do it?

I have a feeling they achieved consensus.

8 posted on 06/05/2013 5:03:38 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: Olog-hai

Are they certin it was a suicide?


9 posted on 06/05/2013 5:04:35 PM PDT by funfan
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I presume they were childless.

Like a comedian said, if you’re married and don’t have children in the house; you are really just dating.

It’s a different dynamic.


10 posted on 06/05/2013 5:05:01 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I think you mean, "there are a million jokes."

;)
11 posted on 06/05/2013 5:08:05 PM PDT by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: freedumb2003

No kidding. Feeling the lurch.

Still, being a Christian I do pray for them. But I think a lot of people could start saving money by not buying self-help books now...


12 posted on 06/05/2013 5:12:24 PM PDT by livius
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To: Olog-hai

Lithium might have helped if they hadn’t stopped taking it.


13 posted on 06/05/2013 5:12:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Bullshit. No one suffocating this way can stop the impulse to rip-off the bags. People suffocating will rip one another to bloody chunks to get air.

Bullshit, it is a common technique to commit suicide. You connect a canister of inert gas, like helium or nitrogen to allow you to peacefully slip away without having the panic associated with typical suffocation. Google "exit bags". Before calling bullshit, it's best to do your due diligence.

14 posted on 06/05/2013 5:14:20 PM PDT by RobertClark (My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
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To: RobertClark

Yep. I would never ever do this but an exit bag would be my mode of exit.


15 posted on 06/05/2013 5:19:06 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: Olog-hai

Suffocate yourself? Jeeezzz, why not just do it with a chainsaw?


16 posted on 06/05/2013 5:22:45 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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I’m with you. Very suspicious “suicide”.


17 posted on 06/05/2013 5:23:37 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’ll go with group-think on this one.


18 posted on 06/05/2013 5:25:21 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: pabianice

They’ll find massive amounts of sedatives in their blood in a few days. That’s how it’s done. The sedatives and the plastic bag; doubly certain.


19 posted on 06/05/2013 5:26:29 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Olog-hai

Does this mean their apartment is available? That’s some prime real estate near Prospect Park.


20 posted on 06/05/2013 5:29:43 PM PDT by beagleone
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