Robert's chicken was un-choked..."
"he's still just as no more as David."
Posted on 08/16/2026 6:58:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Robert Carradine’s family is suing the regents of the University of California, alleging that a series of failures at a UCLA psychiatric facility contributed to the actor’s death.
On Jan. 16, Carradine, 71, checked himself into UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital due to ongoing suicidal thoughts, The Wrap reported.
“Robert walked into UCLA’s locked psychiatric unit ‘feeling relieved to be hospitalized’ and hoped that ‘additional inpatient treatment would’ reduce his anxiety,” according to a legal complaint filed Aug. 7. “He was happy to be in a ‘locked, structured environment’ where he could rest – one that felt ‘containing and helpful.’”
Instead, according to the suit, facility workers let Carradine walk into a room without confiscating his belt, which contradicted UCLA’s policy that listed “belts and belt buckles” as contraband.
The suit claimed it was standard procedure for psychiatric hospitals to remove belts, as well as shoelaces and drawstrings, which could be used to “cause self-harm or hanging.” They said workers broke a “cardinal rule” by letting him keep his belt.
Hospital staff then left him inside a room with a rolling bedside table, which was “not a standard piece of furniture in the locked psych unit” and should have been removed before he was placed there, the filing said.
The next day, Carradine was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest in his hospital room after attempting to take his own life.
“He suffered an anoxic brain injury and spent the next five weeks in the intensive care unit,” the lawsuit stated.
He was admitted to the ICU, where his condition continued to deteriorate and he never regained consciousness. He died five weeks later on Feb. 23. His manner of death was ruled a suicide.
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Q. What do you call the guy who graduates at the bottom of his med school class?
A. Doctor. Also usually Psychiatrist.
Most famous , for me , for his role in ‘ Revenge of the Nerds’. Someone taking their own life makes it hard for the lawsuit lottery to win on this one. Not that they won’t try . Probably already shopped around and found a sympathetic judge.
It is not too much to say that there is an evident generational curse on the Carradine family.
A sad, sad, ending for anyone. Severe depression is no joke. May God have mercy on his soul and grant him eternal rest and peace.
“”””It is not too much to say that there is an evident generational curse on the Carradine family.”””
They are all nuts, Jim.
They also have a propensity to choke themselves.
David was found dead at age 72 in a Bangkok hotel room.
His death was reported as accidental auto erotic asphyxiation.
His death was reported as accidental auto erotic asphyxiation.
Ought not say it but that adds another twist to the thing about the chicken.
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He had the choice of when to attempt to commit suicide. If he checked himself in without being under the control of his associates/family at the time, he could easily have committed suicide before check-in. He chose not to. Can we blame the hospital for his decision to wait until after he was admitted?
First David Carradine gets roped into a fiasco in Thailand and now this.
I see what you did right there. I hadn't even thought of that. I wondered why they made it a point to say he was in cardiac arrest instead of just saying it was a hanging.
"he's still just as no more as David."
Seems like he was worth about 300k.
Retiring in LA with 300k to your name.
He had way more problems than just mental health.
This isn’t about medicine. This is nursing and administration.
Hiring and retaining 3rd world cheap help as nurses and techs..
5 to 15 min checks are the norm with suicidal patients as well full eyes on at all times.
Don’t blame psychiatrists for lousy systems.
He was trying to get help for his intrusive suicidal thoughts. Hospital admissions help box these people in until they have regained control. They left him to become overwhelmed.
He was bipolar
Fastest way in the world to get poor
I've never heard Keith say anything nuts. About Trump or anything.
What have you heard?
Note to self: check for bipolarness.
He tried to stop himself from killing himself but failed.
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