You are the second poster to reference David Carridine. I am not aware of him other than Grasshopper. Apparently he leaned a little too hard?
He died doing that sex thing where you asphyxiate yourself while having alone time.
"Just over a year ago actor David Carradine died a seedy death, hanging by a drapery cord in the cramped closet of a Bangkok hotel room.
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Authorities ruled that Carradine had accidentally suffocated in a lone sex practice known as autoerotic asphyxiation,..."