Posted on 01/26/2017 12:03:12 PM PST by oh8eleven
Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks fatally shot himself in front of his wife in Florida, according to law enforcement records.
The legendary drummer, 69, had been dogged by financial woes for years, The Mail reported, citing local court records.
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Dumbest comment of the day. Drugs aren't even hinted at in the story. You are clearly obsessed with drugs.
It takes time to adjust to, especially if you haven’t prepared for it. Someone who commits suicide definitely hasn’t prepared for passing.
The really sad part of it is that the emptiness one experiences prior to committing suicide is identical to the emptiness one experiences in the dark night of the soul just prior to experiencing God full blast for the first time.
I helped a young man last March that committed suicide. He came to me in spirit just after he hung himself, even though I was 500 miles away and did not know he had done it.
I was able to help him with forgiveness and he did ok in crossing over after that.
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If you knew Robin Williams back when he was nobody, doing his dance on the sidewalk at Girardelli Square, you would know why he was in such bad shape.
But he was in that shape for a long time.
I suspect that there are details that will never be disclosed about his life at the end.
So let me get this right, he used drugs 40+ years ago, but didn’t kill himself back then. Nor did the drugs make him kill himself in the decades since, but when he’s 68 and about to lose everything to the IRS, and fighting with his wife over it, suddenly the drugs made him do it.
You are clearly obsessed, and ready to blame anything that happens to a former drug user on the drugs. Just shows when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
“At first I thought it was a Terry Kath thing”
Kath uttered the three words no gun handler should never speak let alone actually believe. “It’s not loaded”
ALWAYS ASSUME THE GUN IS LOADED!
That’s probably so.
I don’t know him of course, but he seemed like the manic comedian. Just super high blitzed on life one moment, and extremely low pits of despair the next.
He probably went through hell here on earth.
Hate to see anyone go through that.
Classy.
Palm Beach County court records, meanwhile, show Trucks appeared to be wrestling with financials problems as of late.
In 2011, Trucks had to sell his prized home in Palm Beach for $2 million when it was possibly worth twice as much to pay off a $800,000 mortgage that a bank was trying to foreclose on.
In 2014, Trucks and his wife spent $500,000 on the condo where he shot himself.
And he was hounded by the IRS, according to federal records.
Last year, the IRS filed two liens against the condo to force Trucks to pay additional taxes for 2013 and 2014 for a total of more than $540,000.
I'm not sure if you've seen this article, but his widow, Susan, talks about his life at the end.
If your income is enough to run up over a quarter of a million a year in income taxes, and you make over a million in profit from selling your house, you ought to be able to cover day to day bills, unless you have a very expensive habit.
There was an article in The Wall Street Journal within the last to or three years about Trucks buying property in France and at that time he seemed to have no financial problems. How sad.
I had a friend whose husband shot himself in the head in front of her and their four year old daughter.
Depression is an ugly monster.
While reading these posts, it seems that some of you understand this horrible pit of despair. Although nothing is really wrong, it seems like everything is wrong. Why is that?
Although I cannot answer my own question, I have definitely reflected on the why. Without a loving and forgiving family, who supported me and offered compassion to me, I could have been... dead already by my own hand.
However, during these times, I prayed to God to help me. I always came back to “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” and “He has told you, O man, what is good. What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Please excuse me if I have misquoted the Bible.)
Unfortunately, I have known too many people who have taken their own lives. With each passing, I wondered if I could have done anything to make them choose NOT to do so.
A movie with Sissy Spacek, “’night Mother”: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090556/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_40
His sons are touring with great bands. One with tedeski band (guitar) and the other with WSP(drums). Very skilled. Butch did not have to die.
You missed my point.
Thank you DoughtyOne for the kind words. One day at a time.
I seldom share details about my death experience, as the experience itself is not that important. What is important is what I learned from the experience.
If I were to own the experience as a possession and think myself special it would only inflate my ego and make me full of myself. When I am full of myself I have no room for God. True strength only comes through us during our personal weakness.
The most important thing that I learned, God is real and that Jesus is my Savior as He lowered Himself to our level and was born in the flesh to teach us how to grow to be like Him.
Ever since my experience, it’s as though I am not fully back in my physical body. I am aware of spirits or souls of people even if they do not have a physical body. With this awareness I am a tool or servant to help misguided souls find their way to redemption.
The experience of God is profound beyond words. It truly is the treasure buried in the field that you would sell all your possessions to purchase the field. I left it very reluctantly and miss it beyond what words can describe. Meeting God is such a profound peace that the emptiness of returning to my physical body is absolute torture. Thinking of Him and the experience as I type these words brings tears to my eyes.
Depression and the despair that accompanies it are actually created by the tension of being drawn forward for spiritual growth while at the same time holding onto the old. It is very difficult to not be depressed when you are letting go of the "old." Often the "old" is our identity that we have been holding onto.
The greatest obstacles to spiritual growth are the pharmaceutical defense mechanisms that block the symptoms. Depression is a journey to go through that ends up yielding results that are wonderful beyond our wildest expectations.
Depression is spiritual yearning. I'm not discounting the biochemistry of the physical body or the pain of the experience, as it is real. However, the biochemistry is a function of our consciousness which is who we really are.
John 1 (NIV) The Word Became Flesh
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
A word is merely a metaphor for a thought. That thought is merely a pattern of consciousness that we have given meaning. What people do not understand is that there are many levels of consciousness, each with a different perception of reality, just as there are many different radio stations with different music and programming, all available on one radio.
Meditation and prayer helps us tune our individual consciousness to the higher stations on the dial... This increased awareness at the higher levels brings awareness that We, Jesus and Our Father are One. That is what John meant when he quoted Jesus and said:
John 14:20
"you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."
We are all "One" in the body of Christ.
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